Panel Rebukes DoD, VA Over Recovery Coordination Program’s Shortcomings
The House Veterans Affairs subcommittee on health has rebuked the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs for shortcomings in the …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersFLRA Remedy Notices to Go Electronic
FLRA has said that it will now seek the electronic posting of notices as part of the remedy for unfair …More
Women Less Satisfied With ‘Empowerment,’ ‘Fairness’ in Federal Jobs
The Partnership for Public Service has found that women and men are comparable in how they rate satisfaction with a …More
CRS: Up or Down Vote on Real Estate Plans Would Reduce Conflict
Getting Congress to vote yes or no to a set of proposed actions for what to do with underused or …More
GAO: Recovery Act Recipients Owe Hundreds of Millions in Taxes
At least 3,700 Recovery Act contract and grant recipients that received $24 billion are estimated to owe more than $750 …More
Says Managers Can Help Drive Equitable Representation and Advancement
The report offered several actions for managers to take to promote greater representation and advancement of women and increase fairness …More
MSPB: Big Gains for Women in Federal Workforce But Not So Much at Top
The Merit Systems Protection Board has concluded that substantial progress has been made with the representation of women in the …More
Air Force Imposes Partial Hiring Freeze
The Air Force has imposed a partial hiring freeze on civilian positions, part of a DoD-wide effort to keep civilian …More
IG Calls for Stronger Management of Rural Health Program
The Veterans Health Administration needs to strengthen the management of rural health care funding to ensure that rural health projects …More
Legal Issues Face Insourcing Efforts
The Obama administration’s efforts at insourcing jobs–bringing them in-house from contractor performance–face potential legal challenges on several fronts, the Congressional …More
USPS: Payment Defaults Looming
The Postal Service has said it could run out of cash to pay its bills. It reported a net loss …More
Senator Turns up Heat on USAID
USAID has a process in place through with it can reasonably identify significant financial management vulnerabilities with recipients of U.S. …More
OPM Calls for Wider Use of Personnel Mobility Program
OPM has published a fact sheet on the federal government’s Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program intended to debunk commonly held …More
Bill Would Require Job Skills Training for Exiting Military
Legislation has been introduced in the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to require job skills training for all separating service members, …More
Momentum Builds for FECA Reform
The IG recommended that the Department of Labor, which administers the program, continue pursuing legislative changes to FECA. Labor has …More
Postal IG: Workers Comp the New Retirement
Workers compensation has become a retirement system for many disabled retirement age Postal Service employees, resulting in the loss of …More
Food Drive Restarting
OPM has launched the annual Feds Feed Families food drive, which benefits local food banks. Last year’s drive netted some …More
To Generate Data to Help Resolve Challenges to Real Property Management
OMB expects the committee’s work to yield valuable research and analytics to help resolve longstanding barriers to effective real property …More
OMB Establishes Real Property Realignment Committee
OMB has announced the formation of a new real property advisory committee tasked with identifying short-and long-term opportunities to realign …More
GAO Faults Medical Supply and Equipment Management
Weaknesses in policies and oversight covering medical supplies and equipment pose risks to veteran safety, GAO has said. It said …More
House Republicans Supportive, Seeking CBO Estimate
The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has asked the Congressional Budget Office for …More
White House Sends Real Property Disposal Bill to Congress
The White House has sent legislation to Congress that would set up a real property disposal process similar to DoD’s …More
Recommends Requiring Formal Justification for Adjustments
GAO recommended requiring networks to provide rationales for all adjustments made to allocations proposed by VA’s resource allocation model, and …More
VA Needs Greater Transparency Over Allocation of Health Care, Says GAO
VA needs greater transparency over a new health care resource allocation process as well as written policies on monitoring resources, …More
Job Analysis Tools Could Compensate for Loss of KSAs
OPM is working with a contractor to develop job analyses tools for common occupations that could help compensate for where …More
Senators Critical of Slow Implementation of Visa Security Program
The leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is pushing DHS to speed up its implementation of …More
IT Best Practices Platform Launched
The White House Office of the Chief Information Officer has announced the launch of a website to promote and share …More
DHS Launches New Terror Alert System
DHS has announced the implementation of a national terrorism advisory system – NTAS – intended to provide up-to-date information to …More
PIOs: Recovery Act Should be Model for Performance Measurement
According to the report, the Recovery Act could be a model for best practices in performance management, with PIOs saying …More
Performance Improvement Officers Say They Need More Authority, Resources
Agency performance improvement officers have said in a survey they often lack top leadership support to build a strong performance …More
