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Pam Turner, managing director at the Prime Policy Group, said most inquiries from the Hill to federal agencies go through the agency\'s office of legislative affairs.
A bill in the House would prohibit within-grade pay increases through 2012 for federal employees.
The Air Force plans to further reduce its ranks by 9,900 airmen as part of DoD\'s overall budget reductions. The personnel cuts tilt heavily toward the Air National Guard.
A survey of more than 35,000 college and university students found only 2.3 percent plan to work in the federal government after leaving school.
Members of the faculty at National Defense University\'s iCollege join host Derrick Dortch to talk about the school and how it can benefit federal managers. February 3, 2012(Encore presentation February 10, 2012)
President Barack Obama announced Friday his plans to nominate Joseph Jordan, a former Small Business Administration official, to head the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Budget pressures could delay some of the General Services Administration\'s building projects — or scrap them altogether. Art Turowski, a senior vice president with the Government Investor Services group in Jones Lang LaSalle, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new spending numbers mean for the government\'s large-scale construction projects.
Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for national security and procurement policy at TechAmerica, and Frank Reeder, the founder of The Reeder Group, count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Luke McCormack will move to the department from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement directorate at the Homeland Security Department. He takes over for Van Hitch who retired in July.
Many agencies are not as gung-ho on telework as the Obama Administration or lawmakers would have it, according to a recent Congressional Research Service survey. The Department of Veterans Affairs allows just one-tenth of its employees to telework. At other agencies, most workers who are eligible to telework do not.
GOP senators unveiled a bill Thursday that would grant the Defense Department a one-year reprieve from \"sequestration\" cuts. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the proposal \"skullduggery.\"
The agency moved 25,000 employees to Google apps for email and collaboration in the cloud. CIO Joe Klimavicz said GSA\'s experience was crucial in making their transition go on time and on budget.
Mike Brostek, the director of tax issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the watchdog agency\'s recommendations for the IRS program that compares sources of tax information.
Retired Navy Adm. Fred Lewis, the president of the National Training and Simulation Association, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how modeling and simulation can play a role in navigating the next decade of Pentagon budget cuts.