With the final release of the long-awaited federal HR policy rewrite, agencies will see shorter future Federal Employee Viewpoint Surveys and fewer human capital management reporting requirements.
President-elect Donald Trump has laid out numerous goals for the first few months of his administration. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership for Public Service, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what the incoming administration needs to do to strengthen the Office of Management and Budget as the focal point of missions that cut across agencies.
Guest columnist Jim Halbruegger shares some of the lessons he's learned in his long federal career.
Federal employees and contractors waited hundreds of days in some cases for a security clearance in 2016, but the Office of Personnel Management spent much of the year putting the policy pieces in place for improvement. Key stakeholders in the Performance Accountability Council developed an IT plan for the new background investigation system and issued business rules for adjudicating some cases.
Just like weather or traffic apps make it easy to share massive amounts of information with users, the National Cancer Institute is using an application programming interface (API) to connect patients with clinical trial data they otherwise wouldn't know about.
The General Services Administration seems to be making it tougher for certain contractors to do business with the government. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Group, tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin what new stipulations GSA is implementing that may leave some companies out to dry.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) raises questions about safeguards for congressional staffers against retaliatory criminal referrals initiated by the executive branch.
2016 was a busy year for agency oversight. Congress wanted to know about potholes and detours on the road to DATA Act implementation and demanded answers and accountability from departments with "toxic work cultures." Federal News Radio's Meredith Somers tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the progress agencies made toward their 2016 goals and the challenges they’ll face in 2017.
Current Homeland Security Department Secretary Jeh Johnson's vision of "unity" will carry into the new administration, as Congress officially codified several of his priorities in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. DHS will have a new strategic planning and policy office, as well as several joint task forces to coordinate activity across the department's 22 components.
Despite the Justice Department showing some leadership in DATA Act implementation, the department's inspector general says there are some areas of full roll out that have the watchdog concerned about meeting a May 2017 deadline.
Guest columnist Steve Hellem posits a different approach for feds worried about how to deal with the incoming Trump administration.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology gives a holiday gift to agencies and organizations in a how-to guide for recovering from a cyber attack.
A new bill signed into law by President Barack Obama should provide some relief to FBI whistleblowers, who could only report wrongdoing to a certain group of senior officials at the agency.
The best photos from 2016 of the amazing, moving, important and amusing things that happened in the federal community.
Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson wrote to Congress this week, asking that it begin work immediately to repeal cuts to the agency's award and incentive spending. Congress cut VA's performance bonus budget by about 20 percent next year to cover opioid-addiction treatment programs for veterans.