GAO Calls for Improved Accuracy and Reliability of IT Investment Information
Agencies need to improve the accuracy and reliability the capital asset plans and business cases used to justify requests for …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersMomentum Builds for Bill That Could Force FAA to Negotiate With Unions
More than 30 lawmakers have signed on to a House bill — identical to one introduced in the Senate in …More
FLRA Upholds Union Status for USDA Import Inspectors
The Federal Labor Relations Authority, which hears federal labor-management disputes, has blocked the Department of Agriculture from prohibiting union representation …More
GAO: Lack of Control Exposed Government to Fraud, Abuse in Katrina Response
Control weaknesses of billions in emergency relief payments to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita left the government vulnerable to …More
Leadership Program Nominations Open
The Defense Leadership and Management Program is accepting nominations through April 14 for its class of 2006. Nominees generally must …More
Criticism Voiced by Report, Davis
According to the IG report, the agency’s consideration of GSA contract vehicles, both at the outset and following the TCE …More
Treasury IG Blasts Agency TCE Procurement
The Department of Treasury botched the planning, execution and documentation of its Treasury communications enterprise procurement and it lacked an …More
OPM Announces Classification Management Policy Forum
The Office of Personnel Management is establishing two interagency forums covering quarterly recruitment, staffing, and position classification management policy in …More
NASA Breaks Ground on Shared Services Center
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced that it broke ground on its new shared services center at the …More
VA Overestimates Management Savings to Justify Budgets, Says GAO
The Department of Veterans Affairs lacks a methodology for making health care management efficiency savings assumptions reflected in the President’s …More
Proposed Rules Address SES ‘Certification Gap’
The Office of Personnel Management has proposed regulations to provide agencies with the authority to increase the rates of basic …More
Pentagon Performance Management Implementing Issuance
The national security personnel system program office has announced changes to its performance management implementing issuance. The issuance was revised …More
NSPS to Move Forward with Rollout Despite Court Ruling
The Pentagon has said it plans to continue the rollout of its new National Security Personnel System even though a …More
Forum on IT Survivability Set
The General Services Administration’s Office of Technology Strategy and the CIO Council’s IT workforce committee will host a forum titled …More
CIO Council Releases Blueprint for Managing Geospatial Information
The Chief Information Officers Council and the Architecture and Infrastructure Committee, have released a blueprint to help agencies manage geospatial …More
GAO: Air Force Needs Fuller Management Framework for Total Force Efforts
The Air Force needs a fully developed management framework to guide future total force efforts, the Government Accountability Office has …More
Pre-retirement Booth at OPM Workforce Conference Feb.27-March 2 Booth 107
PBS offers Federal Pre-Retirement Seminar Solutions to federal employees across the entire world–and has been for over twenty-six years. With …More
Homeland Security Committee Chair Offers Qualified Praise of Budget Request
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, offered qualified praise of the President’s 2007 budget request …More
Rise in Management Funds Requested for DHS, Including for MAXHR
The President’s fiscal 2007 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security is six percent over 2006 levels, weighs in …More
Pentagon Announces Business Transformation Agency Structure
The Department of Defense has revealed the management structure of the Defense Business Transformation Agency, established in October 2005 in …More
Labor Budget Proposal Favors FECA Reform
The administration’s fiscal 2007 budget for the Department of Labor proposes reforms to the Federal Workers Compensation Program, which provides …More
Management Score Pulls Down OPM Merit Program Rating
The Office of Management and Budget’s ExpectMore.gov website has posted the 2005 assessment of the Office of Personnel Management’s merit …More
OPM Employees Win A-76 Competition
The Office of Personnel Management has announced that a group of employees in the center for retirement services within the …More
Administration Wants to Decide Job Competitions Based on “Value”
The administration’s 2007 budget request in a section on “managing for results,” criticizes legislative restrictions on competitive sourcing that require …More
New OMB Website Publishes Program Ratings
The Office of Management and Budget has launched ExpectMore.gov, a website showcasing the state of federal programs based rankings via …More
More Money for No Child Left Behind
The budget would increase funding for No Child Left Behind by 4.6 percent to $24.4 billion, and the President requested …More
White House Looks to Cut $3.5 Billion From Education Programs
President Bush’s 2007 budget proposal recommends eliminating 42 and reducing four Department of Education programs representing $3.468 billion, arguing they …More
OMB Releases Details on Proposed Program Terminations and Reductions
The Office of Management and Budget has released details on the 141 programs it has proposed for termination or reductions …More
Cards Would Be Linked to Databases
Chertoff added that under the system, technology enhancements would allow officers to identify travelers more easily by linking cardholders to …More
DHS and State Department Announce New Border
The Departments of Homeland Security and State have introduced joint border screening initiatives under the rubric of Secure Borders and …More
