Modest Increase in Awards for SES Through Pay for Performance Shift
The shift to pay for performance involves only a modest increase in award amounts for members of the senior executive …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersReiterates Requirements for Incorporating Security Funding IT Investments
The guidance also reminded agencies of requirements set out in two earlier memos on how to include security into the …More
Notice Sent Out on Releases of Personal Information
In the wake of the Veterans Affairs data security breach, the Office of Management and Budget has sent a memo …More
Navy Civilian HR Office Announces New HR Learning Continuum
The Navy’s Office of Civilian Human Resources has announced the launch of a new competency model and supporting learning continuum. …More
GAO: Increased Oversight of Medicaid Financial Management Needed
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have undertaken a number of steps to improve Medicaid financial management, including efforts …More
DoD Sends Out Political Activities Reminder
The office of the deputy secretary of defense has sent out a reminder regarding the restrictions on civilian employees participating …More
Funding for Park Service Job Competitions Unclear
The Park Service plans to conduct preliminary planning for job competitions for 150 positions, four standard studies for 550 positions, …More
GAO Calls for Stronger Oversight and Management of USVISIT Contracting
Contract management and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security’s visitor and immigrant status program needs to be strengthened, the …More
Defense Agency Tasked With Improving Iraq Contracting
The Defense Business Transformation Agency has been asked to lead a task force to improve contracting and spur job growth …More
It’s Your Agency
The government’s top executive training organization, the Office of Personnel Management, is offering a new course designed to tell managers …More
DoD and Military Services Have Taken Actions to Address Vulnerabilities
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics has begun issuing memos to acquisition personnel …More
DoD Needs to Buy the Right Things the Right Way, Says GAO
The Department of Defense spent nearly $270 billion on contracts for goods and services in fiscal 2005 — double what …More
House Blocks A-76 Study of Corps of Engineers Locks and Dams Personnel
The House’s recently passed fiscal 2007 energy and water-spending bill includes language blocking the use of funds appropriated in the …More
Emergency Procurement Rules Compiled Into Single Source
The Office of Management and Budget has published an addition to the federal acquisition regulation compiling information on emergency procurements …More
Moonlighting Restrictions Emphasized
The Defense Department’s standards of conduct office has put out guidance to employees reminding them that they generally cannot moonlight …More
Cost of Privacy Measure Called Negligible
Pending legislation (HR-2840) that would require federal agencies to assess proposed regulations to determine their impact on the privacy of …More
GAO: Agencies Need to Step Up Privacy Protections
Many agencies that used data from commercial data resellers for agency systems in fiscal 2006 did not perform privacy impact …More
Overall Paperwork Burden Up, But 12 Agencies See Decrease
The Office of Management and Budget has reported that while 12 out of 15 Cabinet departments reduced paperwork burdens for …More
Updated SES Qualifications Released
The Office of Personnel Management has issued an updated guide to executive core qualifications for those interested in joining the …More
FMA Calls for Weeding out Frivolous Claims Against Managers Early On
Karen Heiser, vice president of the Federal Managers Association’s Chapter 88 – Watervliet Arsenal, argued that managers and supervisors remain …More
AFGE Skeptical about Proposal
The president of the American Federation of Government Employees, John Gage, said that while streamlining the employee appeals process is …More
House Weighs Commission on Streamlining Appeals Process
The House federal workforce subcommittee held a hearing recently about a proposal to create a study commission on consolidating employee …More
GAO Urges Thorough Telecommunications Transition
The Government Accountability Office has called on the Federal Technology Service and its customer agencies to fully adopt sound transition …More
Five Critical Elements to Supervisory Training:
According to FMA — and the Government Managers Coalition Perkinson was testifying on behalf of — the following five elements …More
FMA: Mandatory Supervisory Training Should Be Funded
In response to legislation proposed recently in the Senate, the Federal Managers Association has called for mandatory supervisory training to …More
OPM Touts Improvements on Clearances
Despite growth in the workload for security clearances, the processing is being handled in a more timely manner, according to …More
GAO: Risk of Misclassifying Sensitive Information on the Rise at DoD
A lack of oversight and inconsistent implementation of the Department of Defense’s information security program are increasing the risk of …More
Once Again, House Passes Requirements for Agencies to Step Up Telework
The House has passed a fiscal 2007 Science-State-Justice-Commerce spending bill with language requiring agencies funded under the bill to prove …More
EEOC Annual Conference on Discrimination in Federal Sector July 24 — 27
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will hold its annual federal sector EXCEL conference July 24-27 at Caesar’s Palace in Las …More
OPM Issues Additional Pandemic Guidance
The Office of Personnel Management has issued a second installment of its guidance for responding to and working through a …More
