OPM Cautions Against Political Appointments
In anticipation of politically motivated appointments toward the end of the current Presidential term, OPM is promoting merit system principles …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersGAO Wants DoD to Appoint Management Transformation Official
In response to what it called a lack of sustained leadership, a cultural resistance to change, the lack of meaningful …More
GAO Issues To-Do List for DoD Transformation Efforts
The Defense Department is committed to transformation and improving business operations but overhauling the financial management and related business operations …More
GSA Selects Supply Chain Management Software
The General Services Administration says its modified SmartBUY agreement with Manugistics Group, Inc. of Rockville, Md., will provide supply chain …More
OPM Determines It Has Best Value
Employees at the Office of Personnel Management have won five competitive sourcing competitions representing 247 full-time jobs over the course …More
GAO: Information Sharing A One-Way Street for VA and DoD
Better project management and better planning were among the recommendations the General Accounting Office made to the Department of Veteran’s …More
Increase Your Agency or Organization’s Exposure Within the Federal Government
If your agency or organization would like to increase its exposure to the federal government, we are now offering newsletter …More
GAO Questions Quality of FISMA Data
Agencies are making progress with longstanding information security weaknesses but there is an evident lack of accountability among agency officials …More
Initiative Includes Career Tracks
In the Army’s SAW program, career tracks will be created by combining logical groupings of current occupations into functional groupings …More
Army Launches Manager Development Initiative
The Army is beginning to launch its “Senior Army Workforce” (SAW) concept, aimed at preparing mid- and higher-level managers to …More
Leadership Course: Emotional Leadership
The Office of Personnel Management has scheduled a course for May 10-14 for all federal employees. Given at the Western …More
OPM-DHS Meet Over DHS Personnel System; Next Topic Vets
In what it called a meeting to further the ongoing effort to construct a contemporary HR system that protects merit …More
GAO: Information Security Not Just Anti-Virus and Firewalls
The General Accounting Office has identified 18 technologies available to agencies to improve information security. It also listed categories of …More
OPM Official Advocates Performance Measures in Hiring
We all know what gets measured gets done, and you should apply this principle to the hiring process,” said Office …More
FAC Attempts to Define Competitive Sourcing
Competitive sourcing is not a form of management vigilance and nor is it pro-business, insists the Federal Acquisition Council’s updated …More
Report Looks at Performance Measurement Where States and Fed Overlap
It is often unclear how to apply the Government Performance and Results Act to areas where federal and state governments …More
Hot Trend: Activity-Based Budgeting
It may not be sexy, but federal agencies are beginning to find a relatively new budgeting process mighty attractive. It …More
GAO: Stronger Management Required in DoD Software Acquisitions
The Department of Defense needs to use new controls in acquiring and developing software, the General Accounting Office has said. …More
Air Force Targets Hiring Procedures
The Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph AFB, Texas, has directed a management approach it calls “rapid improvement events” at …More
GSA: Product Offering Increase Means More Buying Power for Feds
Global Supply, through which the General Services Administration supplies agencies with office products, tools, cleaning supplies and such to federal …More
GAO: PART Analysis Insufficient By Itself
The Office of Management and Budget’s Program Assessment Rating Tool is inherently limited in providing a single performance answer of …More
Lawmakers Urge DoD to Revise NSPS
Several congressional leaders are trying to get the Department of Defense to cooperate with management organizations and federal unions to …More
EEOC Website Offering RSS Feed
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission publishes new content on its website through an “RSS” feed, an Internet format designating certain …More
DoD Seeks Cell Phone Stipend Authority
Defense Department employees who have a need for an official government cellular phone could be paid a flat rate or …More
Report Hails DoE for Competitive Sourcing
The Department of Energy’s competitive sourcing program exemplifies what the Office of Management and Budget would like to see happen …More
FAC, OMB Publish Competitive Sourcing Management Guidance
The Federal Acquisition Council and the Office of Management and Budget have published an updated list of best practices to …More
Budget Heavy-Hitters Headline Spring Symposium
NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe and a highly regarded commentator on all things federal budget, Stan Collendar, are headlining the American …More
Budget Heavy-Hitters Headline Spring Symposium
NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe and a highly regarded commentator on all things federal budget, Stan Collendar, are headlining the American …More
TSP Program to Receive Additional Phone Support
Recognizing that the new daily-valuated plan for thrift savings investments as well as an increase in plan participants has strained …More
GAO Pushes Use of GPRA
The lack of commitment to the use of the Government Performance and Results Act among leadership in agencies and at …More
