Acting Office of Personnel Management Director Beth Cobert said agencies should include merit system principles, the rules and procedures that ensure objectivity in the federal hiring process, as an incentive for the top talent they want to attract.
The most recent plan to save the Postal Service involves taking a page out of the private sector’s book: required enrollment in Medicare.
Deloitte’s Greg Pellegrino and William D. Eggers provide examples of how agencies are improving citizen services.
Term limits yes or no, dealing with Cuba now that Castro is dead, and getting the continuation of the continuing resolution out the door. Congress has a big agenda when it reconvenes and not much time to complete it. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas outlook.
Six years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, the Interior Department agencies responsible for overseeing the oil and gas industry have made progress of their own. They've taken several measures to make sure they can hire and retain the people they need to carry out the oversight function. But Interior still has trouble knowing for sure whether the measures are effective. Frank Rusco, director of Natural Resources and Environment Issues at the Government Accountability Office, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The White House hosts agency leaders to develop concrete, actionable ideas on developing a more diverse, inclusive federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management is behind on its background security checks and retirement claims processing for fiscal 2016. In the agency's financial report, OPM acting Director Beth Cobert pledges a continued effort to make up the difference through a variety of efforts like new contracts and using electronic records.
Reports about the job security of NSA director Adm. Mike Rogers has several members of Congress up in arms.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) rang in "wastebook" season on Monday by highlighting the offbeat side of government spending and addressing federal agency spending on legacy IT systems.
All the signs are pointing to a continuing resolution lasting until March 31. That's half of fiscal 2017. So maybe contractors should consider reworking their plans so they have a half-fiscal-year strategy to start April 1. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with one view of what that might look like.
With the election, the transition and the Thanksgiving holiday, it's been a busy month for feds. Here are three things you may have missed this month that could have an impact on you or your colleagues in the federal workforce.
Experts who said President-elect Donald Trump couldn't win are now guessing at his blueprint for government. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says they're overlooking the obvious.
Listen to the career people without judgment, but expect them to brief you without their personal agendas.
The Defense Department's $38.5 billion IT budget in the fiscal 2017 requests is being driven by three major trends contractors should be aware of: cybersecurity, cloud and analytics.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked the Government Accountability Office to review potential conflicts of interest, possible violations of security protocol and issues of transparency and logistics of President-elect Donald Trump's transition. Meanwhile, two other lawmakers are once again raising concerns about the potential for political appointees to "burrow in" to career positions.