GSA Inks $9.5 Million Contract for Recovery.gov Upgrade
GSA has signed a $9.5 million contract with Maryland-based IT provider Smartronix on behalf of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency …More
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OPM has announced that the head of four federal departments and agencies located next to one another in Northwest Washington …More
DHS Needs to Strengthen Transit Security Grant Management, Says GAO
Although FEMA has taken initial efforts to develop measures to assess the effectiveness of its grants programs, TSA and FEMA …More
GSA Announces Infrastructure Plans
GSA has resented to Congress federal infrastructure plans designed partly to reduce the government’s energy consumption and keep federal buildings …More
White House Moving Forward With E-Verify
DHS, with support from the White House is moving forward with plans to limit federal contracts to employers that use …More
OPM Announces Hispanic Career Advancement Event
OPM has announced that it will hold the second annual federal Hispanic career advancement summit on September 17, in Arlington, …More
Groups Call for Aligning GPRA, PART, Other Performance Systems
The Government Performance Project — a collaboration among Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute, Accenture’s Institute for Public Service and OMB …More
GAO: Program Weaknesses Dog Federal Protective Service
The Federal Protective Service is tasked with protecting about 9,000 federal facilities with about 1,200 full time employees and a …More
GAO: Coast Guard Continues to Face Management Challenges
The Coast Guard is modernizing its command structure, support systems, and business practices, while continuing the Deepwater program to replace …More
FAA Opening Controller Jobs to Public
The FAA has announced that it is accepting applications from the general public to become trainee air traffic controllers in …More
Homeland Security Panel OKs Collective Bargaining for Screeners
The House Homeland Security and Committee has passed legislation striking down the agency’s Performance Accountability and Standards System and providing …More
GAO: Award Fee Guidance Not Consistently Applied
OMB guidance on award fees meant to curb the default payment of incentives has led to better practices, but they …More
“Green” Purchasing Program Recognized
The White House has given the Postal Service a 2009 "closing the circle" award for its national green purchasing program. …More
ICE Auditing Employer Rolls
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has issued notices to 652 businesses that it will be inspecting their employment hiring records to …More
Earning and Using Compensatory Time Off
There are times when your agency may ask you to work overtime. It may also ask you to accept compensatory …More
White House Will Not Put Hold on Pay for Performance Expansion
OMB has told the chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Edolphus Towns, D-NY, that it will not …More
GAO: Action Plan Could Help Address Negative Perceptions of NSPS
DoD civilian employees under the National Security Personnel System have responded positively regarding some aspects of the system, but DoD …More
House Passes Defense Bill with Restrictions On NSPS
The House has passed a fiscal 2010 defense-spending bill that includes an amendment placing restrictions on the National Security Personnel …More
Hiring Programs at Justice Agencies Also a Concern
The same measure also raises concerns about personnel programs at several Justice Department sub-agencies. For the Bureau of Prisons, the …More
House Raises Management Concerns about Census
The House in passing a fiscal 2010 appropriations bill for the Commerce and Justice departments raised concerns about the management, …More
HUD Should Focus on Inappropriate Use of Housing Funds, Says GAO
The Department of Housing and Urban Development provided over $6.7 billion in fiscal 2008 to housing agencies to operate, modernize, …More
Pilot DoD Job Application System Started
DoD has started a six-month pilot test of a recruitment and application system called Enterprise Staffing Solution (ESS). Applicants applying …More
DHS Personnel Security Programs Strained, IG Says
The DHS inspector general has called for the creation of a centralized department-level personnel security intake processing and customer service …More
Sen. Calls for Review of VA Health Care Infrastructure
The chair of the Senate federal workforce subcommittee, Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, has called for a reevaluation of how the Department …More
Diversity Bill Back on the Table
The chairs of the House and Senate federal workforce subcommittees, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and Danny Davis, D-Ill., have re-introduced …More
No Jury Trials for Whistleblowers, Senior Executives Association Says
The general counsel for the Senior Executives Association, William Bransford, told the Senate federal workforce subcommittee recently that while the …More
GAO Sees Problems Integrating Plug-In Vehicles into Federal Fleet
The federal government set a goal for federal agencies to use plug-in hybrid electric vehicles as they become available at …More
GSA Orders 14,000+ Vehicles Under Recovery Act
GSA has announced that it used $210 million in funds under the Recovery Act to place an order for 14,105 …More
OMB Nominee Emphasizes Balance Between Public, Private Sector Approaches
The nominee for deputy management director at OMB is a Washington D.C. management consultant with no public sector background and …More
New Chief of Staff at GSA
GSA has appointed the former director of the National Academy of Public Administration’s Collaboration Project – a leadership project attempting …More
