A former background investigator pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from her falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
Are agencies hiring at levels consistent with their budgets and past hiring practices? Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal looks at OPM's employment numbers.
In setting forth its goals for reorganizing the government, the Trump administration may be missing an important distinction, namely the difference between goals and output measures.
A bill that passed the House and is pending in the Senate seeks to curb misuse of federal credit cards in the Veterans Affairs Department.
The Internal Revenue Service has long had an on-again off-again relationship with private tax debt collectors. At the moment, it's using them.
House lawmakers are offering different visions of U.S. Postal Service plans to begin offering financial services to help balance its budget.
The White House announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump intends to nominate Steven Dillingham, a current Peace Corps official, as the Census Bureau's newest permanent director.
A strike by D.C.-area bus and subway personnel could give opponents of teleworking a taste of what the government would face in the event of a major weather event, natural disaster or terrorist attack.
The Senate took its turn to question the Trump administration about its government reorganization proposals and offered a much different take than members of the House oversight committee.
An internal poll of FBI employees has revealed a striking drop in confidence in the vision of FBI Director Christopher Wray and the bureau's senior leadership.
Brett Baker, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's assistant inspector general for audits, spoke about the implications of a partially-staffed, 24/7 Headquarters Operations Center.
House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) said he's less concerned by the VA's measure of disciplinary actions and more concerned about whether whistleblowers feel they can approach leadership with their concerns.
NSF will use robotics process automation to improve its intergovernmental transactions, while Interior will apply bots to improve its electronic invoice processing.
Oversight committees in both chambers of Congress this week will consider the president's nominees to sit on the Merit Systems Protection Board, along with other changes to disciplinary actions and probationary periods for federal employees.
Mike Amato, the former director of communications at OPM, remembers his colleague Jean Smith, who passed away last week at age 64.