Bill Would Do Away With KSAs
The chair and ranking members of the Senate federal workforce subcommittee, Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, have introduced …More
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The refusal of an agency to grant a Presidential Rank Award to a senior exec is not appealable as a …More
OPM Director Installed
The Senate has confirmed President Obama’s pick to lead OPM, John Berry, formerly the director of the National Zoo. The …More
GSA: Agreements in Place Allowing Agencies to Leverage Popular Websites
GSA has announced that a six month collaboration with a coalition of federal agencies and websites such as YouTube and …More
Cites Lack of Effective Management Oversight
Monthly billing information relating to the cards is not shared or certified by those who actually use them, and the …More
IG Laments Calling Card Misuse at IRS
Some IRS employees are abusing their agency calling cards but the IRS doesn’t really know to what extent and lacks …More
GSA: $50 Billion IT Award Key to Recovery Activity
In announcing the selection of 59 firms under a $50 billion Alliant IT contract, GSA acting administrator Paul Prouty said …More
GAO: HUBZone Easy Pickings
Following up on a report last July detailing fraud and abuse in the Small Business Administration’s Historically Underutilized Business Zone …More
Job Fair Pairs PMF Hopefuls with Hiring Officials
OPM held a job fair recently to pair 786 finalists of the Presidential Management Fellows program with agency hiring officials …More
GSA Taps Lockheed for IT Support
GSA has awarded a $400 million, five-year blanket purchase agreement to Lockheed Martin for a wide range of IT support …More
GAO: Closing Postal Facilities Necessary
GAO in testimony before the House federal workforce subcommittee on the dour financial state of the Postal Service said that …More
Bill Would Require More Managerial Training
The chair of the Senate federal workforce committee has introduced a bill to require agencies to provide all managers with …More
DHS Could More Efficiently Meet FOIA Requests, Says GAO
DHS developed a Freedom of Information Act improvement plan focusing on eliminating its backlog of overdue requests, implementing enhanced training …More
New Ear of Openness Means Larger FOIA Burden
Attorney General Eric Holder has called for a "presumption of openness" when processing FOIA requests, which is tied into instructions …More
USPS Touting Green Services
The Postal Service has launched a website showcasing so-called "green" initiatives that are part of its massive shipping operation. Its …More
IT Contract in Place
GSA has announced it awarded a five year task order to Systems Research and Applications Corp. International to handle help …More
GAO Calls for Reassessment of Oil and Gas Resource Management
GAO told the House energy and mineral resources subcommittee recently that federal oil and gas resource management and revenue collection …More
OPM Urges Use of Existing Salary Offset Waiver Authority
OPM has issued a memo reminding agencies of an authority already on the books to reemploy annuitants to fill acquisition-related …More
Measure Also Requires Head Count
Another provision in the omnibus measures requires that within 120 days, each department and agency must submit to OMB a …More
Funding Increase for EEOC in Omnibus
The 2009 omnibus spending bill recently signed into law (P.L. 111-8) includes a $15 million increase for the Equal Employment …More
Agencies Make Incremental Progress on IT Security
Most major agencies made incremental progress in closing IT security performance gaps against established performance criteria, OMB concluded in its …More
GAO: State
A GAO investigator recently used bogus documents to obtain four different passports from the State Department, even going to far …More
Telework Survey Coming from MSPB
MSPB has said that it will soon begin a web-based survey of federal employees on teleworking, which it said will …More
Bill Would Ease Annuitant Hiring Without Offset
A bill has been introduced in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that continues a trend in recent …More
Halt to Competitive Sourcing May Continue
Soon after President Obama signed into law a fiscal 2009 omnibus spending bill including an amendment to halt job competitions …More
DHS, Transportation, Interior Rank Last in Employee Survey
DHS Transportation and Interior are three of the larger departments ranked near the bottom in all categories of OPM’s human …More
Call for Applications for Executive Training Programs
The Partnership for Public Service has announced a call for applications to its Excellence in Government Fellows program, aimed at …More
CIO Nominated
President Obama has nominated Vivek Kundra, formerly the chief technology officer of Washington D.C., as the nation’s chief information officer. …More
SEA Calls for More positions
The head of the Senior Executives Association, Carol Bonosaro, told the committee that the department needs more leadership personnel outright. …More
Partnership Leader Cites DHS Workforce Progress
The president of the Partnership for Public Service, Max Steir, recently told the House homeland security management subcommittee that the …More
