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
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOPM: 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
Treasury, Energy Dole $500 Million for Clean Energy
The Departments of Treasury and Energy have announced the award of $502 million in a first round of awards under …More
Despite Call for Union Involvement, AFGE Slams DoD Report on NSPS
The American Federation of Government Employees is "angered, frustrated, and perplexed" that the Defense Business Board appointed to review the …More
GSA Awards UPS Large Shipping Contract
GSA has awarded United Parcel Service a contract for express and ground domestic delivery that it says could save up …More
Fewer Postal Facilities Being Considered for Consolidation
The Postal Service has announced that it reduced the number of retail stations and branches it is considering closing to …More
USPS Offering Buyouts
The Postal Service has announced an agreement with two large postal unions to offer buyouts to employees they represent in …More
Importance of Vet Preference Underscored
In guidance that once again underscores the importance of veterans’ preference in hiring decisions, OPM has told agencies that preference …More
System Damaged Labor Relations, Says Report
Unions were effectively frozen out of the NSPS implementation process and their input on the development of the system was …More
NSPS Called Too Much, Too Soon
The Defense Business Board tasked with reviewing the National Security Personnel System concluded that DoD attempted to accomplish too much …More
Mixed Equal Pay Act Complaint Proceeds
A federal court has said that agencies may be held liable for wage discrimination even if the group of complaining …More
CPSC Needs to Strengthen Import Oversight, Says GAO
The growing volume of consumer products imported into the United States has strained the resources of the Consumer Product Safety …More
DHS Issues New Directives on Border Searches of Electronic Media
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced new directives covering searches of computers and other electronic media at U.S. ports that …More
FAA and Controller Union Announce Labor Agreement
The FAA and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association have concluded mediation by agreeing to a draft labor agreement. Union …More
OSC Refers Transportation Whistleblower Matter to Congress, White House
The Office of Special Counsel has told Congress and the White House that the former Secretary of Transportation, Mary E. …More
IG Criticizes VA Office of Information and Technology
The Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general has issued two reports detailing multiple instances where senior personnel abused their authority …More
DHS, Justice and Mexico Announce Investigative Agreement
DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, officials from several federal law enforcement agencies, and Mexican officials have signed an agreement to develop …More
