White House to Request BRAC Rounds
Defense secretary Leon Panetta announced recently that the White House is planning to ask Congress to authorize new rounds of …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersPresident Orders Improvements to Tourism Visa Processing
President Obama has signed an executive order calling on his staff to maintain an interagency process for coordinating the implementation …More
Interior to Use More Video Conferencing
The Department of Interior has said it will promote the acquisition of video teleconference equipment and the use of those …More
Another Mistaken Release of Personal Information
In the latest in what has become a long line of embarrassing privacy control lapses by agencies, VA has revealed …More
DoD Could Turn to Solar Power on Some Bases
DoD has announced an energy potential study and says it could generate 7,000 megawatts of solar power (equivalent to about …More
Good Turnout for Vet Career Fair, More to Follow
Thousands of vets showed for a recent veterans career fair and expo in Washington D.C., part of a White House …More
Rep. Introduces Plain Regulations Act, Says White House Efforts Stop Short
Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, has introduced a bill following up on the Plain Language Act that went into effect in …More
Challenge to Awards Policy Can Proceed
A federal employee union will get a hearing before an FLRA administrative law judge on its complaint that the Obama …More
Customer Satisfaction with Agency Websites Remains Strong
The ACSI e-government satisfaction index tells another story, showing views about federal websites remain near their peak in 2011, going …More
Approval of Government Services is Up
Following a five point decline from 2009 to 2010, satisfaction with federal services crept back up 2.3 percentage points in …More
IG: Additional Actions Needed to Detect Fraud in Processing Immigration Benefits
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has taken important steps through process improvements and additional systems checks to improve the detection …More
Sees Potential for Cost Savings
VanRoekel called for addressing the wide variation in how the government pays for mobile service by leveraging its buying power, …More
CIO Emphasizing Service Delivery Via Smart Phone
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel has issued a call for the government to take advantage of the proliferation of smart phones …More
Tool Repository Idea Could Catch On
The winner of the White House’s 2011 SAVE award, which is for the best idea to save money and cut …More
GAO Cites Remaining Challenges to EPA’s Information System Risk Program
Revisions the EPA made in May 2009 to its integrated risk information system, which delivers information on the health effects …More
MSPB Pitches Learning Accounts
Agencies may want to revisit an idea tested a decade ago to improve employee training, individual learning accounts, according to …More
GAO: Coast Guard Needs to Continue to Address EEO Barriers
Continued improvement is needed to address potential barriers to equal employment opportunity in the Coast Guard, GAO has said. It …More
IRS Readying for Effects of Health Care Law
The IRS’s office of appeals has taken initial action to begin preparing for anticipated cases resulting from new tax law …More
OMB: Regulations Must Include Clear Summaries
OMB has issued a memo reminding agencies of plain language requirements under Executive Order 13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review," …More
Omnibus Spending Bill Extends Ban on A-76 Studies
President Obama has signed an omnibus-spending bill that weighs in around $1 trillion and includes language extending a ban on …More
Federal Internship Improvement Also Approved
The 2012 defense-spending bill also includes the Federal Internship Improvement Act, furthering the FAI improvement act, which requires the head …More
Federal Acquisition Institute Improvement Approved
President Obama has approved as part of the newly signed fiscal 2012 defense spending bill language designed to bolster the …More
GAO Calls for Stronger Transportation Worker Security Threat Assessments
TSA faces challenges ensuring it has the necessary information and appropriate staffing to effectively conduct security threat assessments for applicants …More
Army Wants More Training on Cooperation
The Army has told its subordinate commands that they "should strongly encourage or require all supervisors and management officials who …More
Guidance Issued on Retiree Rehiring Authority
OPM has issued guidance to agencies on the special authorities enacted in late 2009 allowing them to rehire federal retirees …More
IG Upgrades Status of IRS Modernization Program
The IRS has developed and implemented significant systems to improve the tax return processing environment, and additional improvements and upgrades …More
GAO: Accuracy of IT Dashboard Improving
The accuracy of data on OMB’s IT Dashboard has improved and efforts are underway to better reconcile past and current …More
OPM, HHS Urge Flu Vaccinations
OPM and HHS have sent a joint memo to agencies urging them to protect their employees against flu during this …More
Program Aims to Speed Up Cloud Solution Authorization
OMB has announced a “federal risk and authorization management” program – FedRAMP — intended to reduce the duplicative efforts, inconsistencies …More
Army to Proceed With Workforce Reduction
The Army will move forward with plans to reduce the size of its civilian workforce by about 8,700 positions by …More
