Among the more ambitious provisions in the President's Management Agenda, which was released last week, is a promise to work with Congress to totally redo the federal employment system.
Ken Graham has worked in systems operations in Texas, taking a leadership role in the Hurricane Katrina recovery. He also established command centers to provide weather forecasts during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has $15 million more to spend for the rest of fiscal 2018 compared to previous years.
As the Trump administration plans major changes to the current hiring and firing systems, federal experts say government can't solve without addressing the other.
The President's Management Agenda was written or at least heavily influenced by a person or people who actually understand government and the civil service. Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal says it's a great start.
From the budget to gun control protests, Roll Call's David Hawkings offered analysis of Capitol Hill's busy weekend March 23-25.
A powerful wind storm earlier this month knocked out power at the Thrift Savings Plan's data center, which left participants without a way to contact the agency for several hours March 2.
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss how the omnibus looks to services contractors.
Mike Stuart, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss efforts to check for public corruption in West Virginia.
The commander of the Army's Installation Management Command says joint basing has eroded warfighting readiness, and failed to save any money.
The clock is ticking for the Census Bureau to hand over the finalized list of questions it'll ask every household in the United States for the 2020 count.
The fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill signed into law on Friday provides additional money through two other governmentwide funds.
After threatening a veto, the president signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending deal, ending the possibility of a government shutdown until September.
Janet Vogel will be taking over the position of Health and Human Services chief information security officer in April, according to an internal email obtained by Federal News Radio.
Federal agencies might be placing too much emphasis on physical infrastructure as a measure of resilience and not enough on social capital.