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
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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
Committee Passes New Oversight Requirements
Legislation approved recently by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is designed to increase transparency of government spending. The …More
Obstacles Include Backlog
The group said more agencies are processing requests online and additional OPM staff and more contractors have helped speed up …More
Report: Security Clearance Investigations Faster in Fiscal 2007
It looks as though the time it takes to carry out a federal background investigation for security clearances is dropping, …More
Hiring Push at FEMA
FEMA is conducting a hiring push into excepted service career ladder positions starting at GS-9 paying about $46,000, and some …More
Calls for Greater Program Transparency, Accountability
GAO called on DHS to direct the US-VISIT program director to increase program transparency and accountability by defining and justifying …More
Spending on US-VISIT Needs to be Adequately Defined and Justified, GAO Says
Planned expenditures for the US visitor and immigrant status indicator technology program—“US-VISIT”–which collects, maintains and shares information, including biometric identifiers, …More
OGE Warns about Accepting Luxury Entertainment
The Office of Government Ethics has issued a memo to agency ethics officials reminding them of the government-wide policies regarding …More
Amendment Would Create DHS Management Chief
As an amendment to the bill, the committee also approved legislation sponsored by Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, that would establish …More
Large Homeland Security Bill Passed, Gives TSA Screeners Bargaining Rights
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has passed broad legislation aimed at implementing unfulfilled recommendations of the 9-11 …More
DHS Announces IT Contract Awards
DHS has announced 11 contract awards through FirstSource, a small business set aside program, to acquire department-wide IT commodity products. …More
‘Good Government’ Legislation Aimed at Executive Branch Reform
Legislation has been approved by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that would require all political appointees and senior …More
