Senate Approves Bills on Customer Experience, Federal Building Resilience
The Senate has passed S-671, to aid agency efforts to improve their customer service by encouraging them to collect voluntary …More
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OPM Posts Updates on Hiring Initiatives under Management Agenda
OPM has posted on performance.gov updates on hiring initiatives as one of the updates from the Cabinet departments and largest …More
GSA Planning to Increase the Buzz around Federal Buildings
The GSA has announced an initiative to use federal properties as havens for pollinators, starting with the installation of honeybee …More
VA System Didn’t Adequately Protect Employee Personal Information, Says IG
An inspector general audit has found that a VA system for tracking work requests in the Veterans Benefits Administration did …More
Report Finds Mixed Success with Virtual Hearings
In a report that suggested its findings have wider application, the IG of the Justice Department has found both advantages …More
New Rotation Program, Other Cybersecurity-Related Measures Approved
President Biden has signed into law (P.L. 117-149) a bill recently cleared by Congress to boost career development opportunities for …More
Job Series for Wildland Firefighters Created; Raises with Back Pay Promised
OPM has created a job series for federal wildland firefighters to replace the former policy of including them in the …More
Next Steps Listed on Equity Learning Agenda
A posting on evaluation.gov lists steps ahead under the Equity Learning Agenda, which was part of the recently issued report …More
Review of Statistical Policy Guidance to Begin
The Biden administration has announced a review of the basic policy on collection by federal agencies of statistics on race …More
Program to Put Unneeded Equipment to Use Elsewhere Falling Short, Says IG
An inspector general audit has said that DoD is missing opportunities to avoid purchasing new equipment by making greater use …More
Central IT Fund to Designate $100 M for Customer Experience Projects
The Technology Modernization Fund is designating $100 million of the $1 billion cash infusion it received under a pandemic relief …More
House Bill Would Boost Exchange Programs for DoD Acquisition Workers
The annual DoD authorization bill up for consideration in the House Armed Services Committee this week contains several provisions specific …More
Federal Employees Trust Career Leaders above Appointees, Says Report
Federal employees overall have more trust in career leaders than in politically appointed ones, and more trust in those they …More
Best Practices against Identity Fraud in Agency Programs Listed
Federal agencies “must stand up robust systems to minimize identity fraud in its programs and improve the processes by which …More
Partnership Offers Tips for Navigating Up through an Agency
A posting by the Partnership for Public Service lists steps for navigating up through an agency based on leadership development …More
House Republicans Question Agencies on Voting-Related Actions
A group of about nearly two dozen House Republicans, many of them ranking members of committees or subcommittees, have questioned …More
CIO Council Sets Strategy for Upgrading Agency IT
The federal CIO Council has set a strategy for upgrading agency IT under programs including the Technology Modernization Fund, the …More
First ‘Digital Corps’ Fellows Set to Spread Out to Agencies
The first set of fellows under the Biden administration’s Digital Corps initiative will soon spread out to 13 agencies to …More
Pandemic Spending Oversight Body Cites More Lessons Learned
Collaboration, outreach and transparency were among the common themes of a new set of lessons learned about pandemic relief spending …More
EEOC Offers Series of Training Courses
The EEOC is conducting through September a series of some two dozen virtual training courses including EEO training for new …More
Public Trust in Career Federal Employees Eroding, Survey Finds
The public still has greater trust in career federal employees than in political appointees to act in the best interests …More
GAO Urges Action on Federal Property Management Recommendations
GAO has said that all five of its open priority recommendations for the GSA involve property management, noting that the …More
IG Renews Warning about Federal Employee Impersonation Scams
The inspector general’s office at the SSA has again raised a warning it has sounded over the years, saying scammers …More
GSA Cites Progress in Scrubbing Unauthorized Items from Federal Supply Chain
GSA has said that a recent pilot test using its Verified Products Portal resulted in identifying and removing some 75,000 …More
GAO Adds Unemployment Insurance to High-Risk List
GAO has added unemployment insurance—mainly implemented at the state level but overseen by the Labor Department at the federal level—to …More
Stronger Subpoena Power for IG at VA Approved; FECA Treatment Bill Advances
President Biden has signed into law S-2687, to give the inspector general at the VA authority to issue subpoenas to …More
More Than a Third of Federal Cyber Jobs Unfilled, Report Says
Despite numerous reports warning about the risks of high vacancy rates among federal cyber positions and years of initiatives by …More
IRS Returns to Standardized Personnel Policies
The IRS has returned to a policy that had been dropped under the Trump administration of applying certain personnel policies …More
MSPB Refines Standard for Weighing Penalties in Disciplinary Cases
The MSPB has refined one of the dozen so-called “Douglas factors” it weighs when considering whether to uphold, reverse or …More
DoD Behind the Times in Managing Civilian Employees, Says Report
DoD’s management of its civilian workforce “lags behind private industry and is behind the times,” according to a report by …More
