Revolving Door Between DoD, Contractors Continues to Spin, GAO Report Shows
Fourteen major defense contractors employed some 37,000 people in 2019 who had left DoD civilian employment or the military over …More
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Personnel Management Key Focus of ‘Renewing’ Government Report
Personnel management is among the areas listed as needing reform in a report from the Partnership for Public Service, which …More
OMB Releases Draft Strategy on ‘Zero Trust’
OMB has issued for comment a draft strategy for carrying out a Biden administration executive order to “accelerate agencies towards …More
SEC Lacks Data to Evaluate Evenness of Discipline, IG Says
An IG audit has said that a lack of data on disciplinary actions at the SEC made it unable to …More
HHS Establishes Climate Change/Health Equity Office; Says It’s First of Its Kind
HHS has established an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, what it describe as the “first office of its …More
OMB Launches Evaluation.gov to Coordinate Actions under Evidence Act, Biden Orders
OMB has launched evaluation.gov to be a resource “to support and build the Federal evaluation community, as well as a …More
GSA, OMB Seeking Platforms for Upskilling Federal Workforce Online
GSA, OMB and the federal chief financial officers council have issued a joint request for information to online universities, business …More
Funds Advance for Electric Vehicle Fleets, Cybersecurity, IT Modernization
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has approved additional funding over the next 10 years for electrifying the federal vehicle …More
GSA Posts Resources for Building Efficiency Improvements
The GSA has posted resources for federal building managers, commercial property owners and others on grid-interactive efficient building (GEB) measures …More
OPM Reminds Agencies of Emergency Authorities; Leave Sharing Program Possible
OPM has reminded agencies of the personnel authorities available to them emergencies such as that created by Hurricane Ida, meanwhile …More
Guidance Issued on Responding to Cybersecurity Incidents
OMB has issued guidance (memo M-21-31) on an executive order calling on agencies to improve their capabilities to investigate and …More
‘Digital Corps’ Fellowship Program Launched
The Biden administration has announced a new fellowship program, the U.S. Digital Corps, to “recruit early-career technologists to contribute to …More
OMB Sets Cross-Agency R&D Priorities for Next Budget
OMB has set research and development priorities for agency proposals toward the fiscal 2023 budget plan, saying that that funding …More
Audit Finds Unauthorized Access to Health Data at DoD
The Defense Department “did not effectively control access to health information of well known DoD personnel and possibly of any …More
GAO Sees Growing Agency Use of Facial Recognition Technology, Including on Their Own Employees
Federal agencies are planning to increase their use facial recognition technology, GAO has said, adding that agencies already are using …More
OMB Updates Status of Learning Agendas
OMB has said it is exploring the development of a federal government-wide learning agenda to complement agency-specific learning agendas being …More
Agencies Not Getting the Idea of IDEA Act, Says Report
Federal agencies “have missed multiple deadlines to transition from paper to web-based forms,” as required by the 21st Century Integrated …More
Appointees (Not Nominees) Named for Impasses Panel
President Biden has announced his intention to appoint 10 persons to the Federal Service Impasses Panel, an arm of the …More
Congress Passes Budget Transparency Bill, Sends to Biden
The House has joined the Senate in passing S-272, to require agencies to publish easily understandable justifications for their annual …More
SEA: Court Precedent Could Upset Many Disciplinary Actions at VA
Two recent federal court decisions could call into question the legal basis for numerous disciplinary actions taken against VA employees …More
IRS Not Always Complying with Taxpayer Protections, IG Finds
The IRS does not always comply with prohibitions against directly contacting taxpayers when they have designated someone else to handle …More
Guidance Addresses Using Automated Processes for Payment Integrity
OMB and the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee have released new guidance on the use by agencies of automation and data …More
Oversight of Contractors Among Priority Recommendations for DoD, Says GAO
GAO has listed several considerations related to oversight of contractors as among the priority recommendations it has made to DoD …More
GAO Cites Controls to Assure That Teleworkers Are Working
Agencies have automated tools to make sure that teleworking employees are working when they say they but supervision also is …More
Boost in Pay Coming for 14,000 Federal Wildland Firefighters
Some 14,000 federal wildland firefighters of the Agriculture and Interior departments are receiving a pay boost to assure that they …More
Pandemic Created an Unexpected Experiment in Management, Report Says
The Coronavirus pandemic has “laid bare some of government’s most longstanding shortcomings” but also amounted to an “unexpected grand experiment” …More
Following Audit, BoP Orders Tightened Screening of Arriving Employees
The Bureau of Prisons has ordered tightened screening of employees arriving for work after an IG review found that a …More
Rules Issued on Post-Secondary Student Hiring Authority; Non-Competitive Appointments
OPM has issued interim rules to carry out a new “Post-Secondary Students hiring authority” for agencies to hire such students …More
Postal IG Sees Lessons Learns from Other Disrupted Entities
There are lessons to be learned for the Postal Service in the experiences of other entities that have been disrupted …More
Audits Criticize VA Prescription Drug Management
Two inspector general audits have criticized aspects of the VA’s management of prescription drugs, saying the department is failing to …More
