Committee Investigating GSA Allegations
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is widening its probe into conflict-of-interest allegations against GSA administrator Lurita Doan. …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersTighter Post-Employment Restrictions for DHS Officials
The Office of Government Ethics has published a final rule in the March 8 Federal Register on post-employment conflict of …More
FAA Updates Controller Staffing Plan
The Federal Aviation Administration has released an updated plan to hire nearly 1,400 new air traffic controllers this year, a …More
Senate Tables Amendment to Block Collective Bargaining Rights for Screeners
The Senate has defeated an amendment by 51 — 46 offered by Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that would have removed a …More
Differences in Ratings are Resulting
The report said that OPM has focused attention on the percentage of senior executives who receive the highest summary appraisal …More
Credibility an Issue in SES Pay System
The potential for politicization and the emphasis on reducing the number of executives getting top ratings have raised questions about …More
No Need for Supply Centers to Review Lead Time Methodology, DoD Says
To improve the components’ accuracy in setting acquisition lead times GAO called on the Secretary of Defense to direct the …More
GAO Cites Opportunities to Improve DoD Acquisition Management
Opportunities exist to improve the management of the defense department’s acquisition lead times for spare parts, GAO has said. It …More
OPM, NNSA Propose Pay for Performance Pilot
The National Nuclear Security Administration and OPM have proposed a demonstration project to test a pay banding and performance-based pay …More
Senators Request Investigation of Federal Protective Service Funding Shortfalls
Senior members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee have requested a GAO review of the ability of …More
IG: Fish and Wildlife Service Enforcement Office Beset by Management Problems
The Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement has made progress over the past five years, but further progress …More
IT Security Improving But for a Few Agencies, Says OMB
Agencies have continued to close the IT security performance gaps in some areas over the past year but progress dropped …More
APWU to Court Women
The American Postal Workers Union has announced an organizing campaign directed at women and scheduled for March — Women’s History …More
GAO Prepared to Accept Union Election
GAO responded to a congressional request that its employees be permitted to engage in protected self-organizational activities free from interference …More
MaxHR Name Was Associated With Failure, Union Says
The National Treasury Employees has welcomed DHS’s recent decision to scale back the rollout of its pay-for-performance personnel system and …More
Injury and Unemployment Training Conference Set
The DoD Injury and Unemployment Compensation Division (ICUC) will hold a training conference for the week of April 16-20, in …More
GAO Calls on OSC to Improve Management of Case Tracking System
After finding discrepancies in the data generated by the Office of Special Counsel’s case tracking system — OSC 2000 — …More
Partnership to Use Grant to Train Federal Leaders and Advocate Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service has announced it received a $4 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation to carry out …More
IG Calls for Accountability Among Senior Staff
The IG also said the appearance of preferential treatment in awarding contracts and procurements has come his office’s attention far …More
Interior IG Calls for Centralized IT Security
The Interior IG recently told the House Natural Resources committee that his office supports the reorganization and centralization of key …More
OMB Soliciting Feedback for Design of Federal Spending Website
OMB has launched a precursor to a publicly searchable federal spending database — federalspending.gov — in order to solicit feedback …More
CIO Award Nominations Sought
The CIO Council has put out a call for nominations for its annual Leadership Award, given to career federal employees …More
Recommends Stronger Guidance for Using Award Fees
GAO recommended that the agency reemphasize to its various organizational centers the importance of tying award-fee criteria to desired outcomes …More
GAO: Incentive Payments to NASA Contractors are Handouts
NASA paid the contractor for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Core System 97 percent of the available …More
Executives Conference Upcoming
The African American Federal Executives Association will hold a leadership development and training conference April 24-25 in Williamsburg, Va., with …More
DoE to Make Good on Performance Awards
The Department of Energy has announced that the recently approved continuing resolution for fiscal 2007 will cover employee performance based …More
DoD Analyzes Results of Survey
DoD has produced an analysis of how it stands compared to other agencies in the recently issued results of the …More
DoD Employee and Labor Relations Symposium Coming
DoD will host a Defense Employee and Labor Relations Symposium May 14 – 17 in St. Louis, designed to provide …More
GAO Calls on Army to Develop Strategy to Address Officer Retention Challenges
The Army needs a strategic plan to address its emerging officer accession and retention challenges, GAO has said. It said …More
CRS Considers Alternative Approaches to Financial Management Consolidation
OMB wants agencies to move to shared services provides for financial management services as soon as they identify a need …More
