Energy Teams up with Private Sector to Drive Recovery Projects
The Department of Energy has announced it will partner with financial institutions to accelerate the distribution of billions in Recovery …More
Federal Manager’s Daily Report
Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersBlanket Purchases Up, but GAO Says Agencies Miss Out on Savings Potential
Agencies are using significantly more blanket purchase agreements but GAO has said they are missing out on opportunities to save …More
Postal Services Making Most Use of ADR
The Postal Service has reported the highest participation rate for alternative dispute resolution in the pre-complaint process in fiscal 2008. …More
Hiring Authority Announced for Internet Security Experts
DHS secretary Janet Napolitano has announced a new hiring authority to recruit and retain cyber-security professionals across DHS over the …More
GAO: Executive Attrition Down at TSA
Attrition is down among the Transportation Security Administration’s transportation security executive service, but the agency needs better information on why …More
Presidential Management Fellows Available for Immediate Placement
OPM is asking agencies for hiring projections for the Presidential Management Fellows program, through which agencies recruit graduate, law, and …More
GSA Completes “Greening” of Vehicle Fleet Under Stimulus Program
GSA has announced that with the purchase of five more compressed natural gas-powered buses and 35 hybrid fuel buses it …More
Calls for Sustainability Officers, Performance Plans
The order calls on agencies to individually develop and carry out integrated strategic sustainability performance plans that prioritize the agency’s …More
Executive Order Sets Environmental Requirements for Agencies
President Obama has signed an executive order that sets sustainability goals for federal agencies focusing on making improvements in environmental, …More
OMB Employees to Step Lively
In a health promotion initiative of the sort that other agencies might wish to adopt, OMB employees are being offered …More
H1N1 Flu Communications Guide Issued
The Department of Health and Human Resources, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and OPM have issued an H1N1 …More
Federal Agencies to Offer Flu Vaccine to Employees
Although the federal workforce will not get first dibs on H1N1 vaccine, federal departments and agencies may register with the …More
SSA Makes Some Progress on Backlog
SSA has said that for the first time since 1999, it ended a fiscal year with fewer disability hearings pending …More
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
OMB 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
