While still 2,826 claims higher than the steady state goal of 13,000, OPM hasn’t seen backlog levels this low since December of 2017, when claims were below 15,000.
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Don’t just roll over your plan, says Kevin Moss, who researches FEHB plans for Consumers’ Checkbook. “It’s quite possible that you’re overpaying versus some less expensive options that could provide just as good or … even better coverage for a lower price.”
Measuring federal office space utilization is incredibly complicated — and it has been that way for quite some time.
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Federal watchdogs have found several gaps in how VA screens candidates for healthcare jobs — including identifying when it hires employees with a drug felony.
Not every FEHB enrollee should necessarily make a change to their health, vision and dental plan options, but at the very least federal health experts say it’s wise to learn how your plan will change in 2024.
Agencies need to apply much of the common sense learned from securing data on premise to securing it in the cloud. We get tips from a panel of experts from Commvault, AWS and Kelyn Technologies.
In 38 years at NASA, today’s Federal Drive guest has done lots of things. As an astronaut, he flew three space missions, commanding two of them. He oversaw retirement of the Space Shuttle. He rose to associate administration, the number three ranking person at NASA.
The hackers were likely mapping the unidentified agency’s network, but “no evidence is available to confirm successful data exfiltration or lateral movement during either incident,” CISA says.
Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says agencies still aren’t making effective use of their office space.
A postal union and the head of a Senate committee overseeing USPS are pressing the agency for more details about its sweeping network changes.
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