Initial Focus on Social, Educational, Economic Programs
The program evaluation push will initially focus on social, educational, economic, and similar programs whose expenditures are aimed at improving …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOMB Pushing Program Evaluations, Offers Limited Funding
OMB has announced several government-wide efforts related to the role of program evaluations as part of the fiscal 2011 budget …More
Controllers Vote Yes on New Collective Bargaining Agreement
The members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Union have voted to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement with the …More
Senators May Try to Separate DCAA from DoD to Ensure Independence
GAO said that in the short-term, Congress could provide DCAA with certain legislative protections and authorities similar to those available …More
GAO: Defense Auditing Agency in Need of Significant Reform
Audit quality problems exist at the Defense Contract Auditing Agency’s offices throughout the nation, including compromise of auditor independence, insufficient …More
Holds up Centers for Medicare & Medicaid as Example
The experience of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services highlights the role that strengthened management practices can play, said …More
FEMA, Interior Need to Make Better Use of Performance Information, Says GAO
After surveying federal managers at 29 departments and agencies and reviewing key documents GAO has said FEMA and the Department …More
SES Ratings Start to Creep Up
Performance ratings in the SES system, long viewed as a bellwether for pay for performance systems in other occupations, have …More
GAO: Staffing and Foreign Language Gaps Compromise Diplomatic Readiness
Despite a number of steps taken in the past several years, the State Department continues to face persistent staffing and …More
Conditions for Reciprocity Detailed
The memo says that agencies making fitness determinations shall grant reciprocal recognition to a prior favorable fitness or suitability determination …More
OPM Issues Guidance on Reciprocity for Suitability Determinations
OPM has issued a memo for agencies to implement an executive order – EO 13488 — issued last January mandating …More
USPS Needs Flexibility to Adjust Delivery Network, Postmaster Says
Postmaster General John Potter told the National Postal Customer Council in a recent annual address that the Postal Service needs …More
GAO Calls on FDIC to Step Up Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures
GAO has identified internal control issues affecting the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s accounting for the funds it administers, such as …More
Take Part in the Fiscal 2011 Budget and Meet the President Sweepstakes
OMB has issued details on an award program designed to solicit ideas from federal employees at all levels of government …More
Change in Law No Quick Fix in Addressing Poor Performance
A continual criticism of the civil service is its inability to fire poor performers, but the solution lies in engaging …More
OMB to Track Progress on Trusted Internet Connections Initiative
OMB has issued a memo calling on agencies to report to DHS every six months their progress meeting milestones and …More
OPM: Federal Investigations Processing Time Down to 37 Days
The time it takes the federal government to complete security clearances has gone down from one year to just 37 …More
Financial Management Award Nominees Sought
Nominations are being sought for the annual Donald L. Scantlebury Memorial Award for excellence in financial management. The award recognizes …More
Agencies Rating More Managers on Commitment to EEO
The report said 83 percent of the 172 agencies submitting EEO reports indicated that their managers and supervisors were rated …More
Half of Issues That Result in Formal Counseling Become EEO Complaints
Of the 38,898 instances of employee counseling on equal employment opportunity issues in fiscal 2008, 55 percent did not result …More
Senators Drafting Cyber-crime Legislation, Public-Private Partnership Featured
The chair and ranking members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, …More
GAO: Performance Baseline Missing From Weather Service Consolidation
The National Weather Service and the FAA are planning to restructure the way aviation weather services are provided at en …More
Agencies Trying out Universal Internet Login Credentials
The Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services and related agencies …More
New Course Materials on Conflicts of Interest Available
OGE is making available a new instructor-led course on conflicts of interest titled Are You Vulnerable to Conflicts? The course …More
CBO: TSA Personnel Reforms Would Increase Costs
CBO has estimated that passing a pending House bill (HR-1881) to essentially undo the special personnel authorities at TSA will …More
House Oversight Committee Investigating SEC Personnel Policies
The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., is looking into the personnel policies of …More
Conference on Hiring of Disabled Set
The Perspectives on Employment of Persons with Disabilities will hold its annual training conference December 9-11, in Bethesda, Md. The …More
Promoting the Candidate After the Election-Day Not a Hatch Act Violation
The Office of Special Counsel has issued an advisory opinion stating that federal employees who choose to promote a Presidential …More
OSC Files Complaints Against USPS Worker for Running for Public Office
The Office of Special Counsel has filed a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board in an attempt to have …More
DHS Announces Cross Border Security Communications Network
DHS has announced that senior officials to the US-Mexico "high-level consultative commission on telecommunications" have signed a bilateral telecom agreement …More
