Report Argues for a Patent and Trademark Corporation
A new report from the congressionally chartered National Academy of Public Administration has called for transforming the U.S. Patent and …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersNASA Announces New Personnel
Administrator Michael Griffin of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has appointed two new senior advisors on his management team …More
NTEU Finding Congressional Support for Retooling DHS Personnel System
Following a recent federal district court ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s new personnel system does not adequately provide …More
NASA Awards Training Contract
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration has selected Greenbelt Maryland-based ASRC Management Services, Inc., to provide career training and development …More
OPM Selects the Bureau of Public Debt for Financial Management Support
The Office of Personnel Management has selected the Bureau of Public Debt’s Administrative Resource Center to support its core financial …More
FBI Announces National Security Branch Leadership
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced senior leadership for its new National Security Branch, which combines its counter terrorism, …More
Case Involves Alleged Misconduct, Retaliatiom
Edmonds sued the Department of Justice in 2002 after she was fired from her linguist position, alleging retaliation for reporting …More
FBI Whistleblower Eligible for Attorney’s Fees Following Appeal
The federal appeals court for the District of Columbia circuit has reversed a lower court’s decision to deny compensation for …More
OPM Issues Final Rule for IT Exchange Program
The Office of Personnel Management published final regulations for the federal IT exchange program in the August 15 Federal Register. …More
Court Did Not Abuse Discretion, in Denying Back Pay and Promotion
The employee did not, however, succeed in winning back pay and placement in a GS-15 position, and so appealed the …More
USAID Employee Wins Settlement, Loses Fight
A GS-14 employee at the U.S. Agency for International Development who won money and damages after suing his employer for …More
DOE Employees Win Bid Protest
The Department of Energy has upheld a bid protest and suspended a contract award to a private company for facility …More
DoD Management Breakdowns Lead to Wasted Property, Inefficiency, Says GAO
The Department of Defense lacks management controls to ensure excess property inventory is reutilized as much as possible, the Government …More
DHS Announces New IT Acquisition Programs
The Department of Homeland Security has announced two new programs for IT acquisitions, one for IT services called EAGLE – …More
OPM Promotes Student Loan Repayment Program
After the Office of Personnel Management held a forum recently meant to advance the use of the federal student loan …More
FLRA Office Rejects National Security Rationale for Denying Union Representation
The Federal Labor Relations Authority’s Chicago region has rejected the Department of Agriculture’s stated national security rationale for ending union …More
Makes Policy Recommendations
CSIA outlined policy recommendations to the Administration and Congress to expand telework programs, for example, by including telework in the …More
Report Calls for Greater Role of Telework
A new report looks at reasons why telework has been slow to catch on in the federal government and calls …More
More to be Done, Lieberman Says
“The Postal Service deserves credit for its efforts to make sure postal employees know what they need to do to …More
GAO: Greater Refinement of Suspicious Mail Guidance Needed for USPS
When an envelop marked “Caution: Ricin Poison,” generated some confusion after showing up at an airmail facility in Greenville, South …More
OMB Issues Implementation Guidance for Government-Wide ID Standard
The Office of Management and Budget has issued guidance for implementing a presidential directive signed last year requiring the development …More
FBI Announces Information System Solicitation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a formal solicitation for proposals to develop its next generation electronic information management …More
Report Reviews How Planning is Done
The agencies GAO looked at have assigned responsibility for succession planning and management efforts to councils or boards, and VHA …More
GAO Calls for Better Succession Planning
The Census Bureau, Department of Labor, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Veterans Health Administration have all implemented succession planning …More
MSPB Outlines Requirements for Success
In order for a pay system to direct organization change, agency leaders need to demonstrate their commitment to performance pay …More
MSPB Promotes, Endorses Pay for Performance
An organization’s culture can be changed through its pay system to focus more on performance, according to the Merit System …More
Pentagon Needs to Reign in Military Compensation, Says GAO
The Department of Defense needs to reassess the way it compensates service members, the Government Accountability Office has said in …More
GAO Advocates Greater Use of Performance Budgeting for DHS
Risk management principles such as performance management could help the Department of Homeland Security allocate resources, Comptroller General David Walker …More
House Seeks to Guide OPM Policies
As part of the Transportation-Treasury appropriations bill for fiscal 2006 (HR-3058)—a bill that covers the Office of Personnel Management, among …More
GAO: Too Few Audits of GSA Vendor Pricing Forego Hundreds of Millions
In its most recent review of the General Services Administration’s multiple awards schedule program — through which $34 billion changed …More
