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
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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
Fraudulent Homebuyer Credits Being Processed, IG Says
Control weaknesses have allowed potentially erroneous refunds of more than $513 million to be received by taxpayers who most likely …More
Website Launched to Open up Federal Advisory Committee Records
GSA has launched a website – www.gsa.gov/efaca – providing public access to 10 years of federal advisory committee information and …More
Agencies Required to Train Employees to Write Clearly
OMB has issued final guidance on implementing the Plain Writing Act of 2010 that mandates that government documents to be …More
Agencies Required to Train Employees to Write Clearly
OMB has issued final guidance on implementing the Plain Writing Act of 2010 that mandates that government documents to be …More
Bill Would Extend Probationary Period for Feds
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has passed legislation in a 17 – 14 vote along party lines that …More
President Issues National Preparedness Directive
President Obama has issued a national preparedness directive designed to update the federal government’s playbook for responding to emergencies such …More
Report Called Guide for Cuts
The senators characterized the March 1 GAO report as a guide on what to target for cuts, having identified 34 …More
Senate Approves $5 Billion in Cuts to Overlapping Programs
The Senate has passed an amendment acting on a first-annual GAO report identifying redundant or overlapping federal agencies, offices, programs …More
Uphill Battle for OMB Nominee
The Senate Budget Committee has approved Obama’s nominee for deputy director of OMB with an 11 to 10 vote along …More
