Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) wants information from Office of Personnel Management acting Director Beth Cobert about SES members getting multiple performance bonuses in the same fiscal year.
There's no more point in complaining about a continuing resolution than there is complaining about the weather. It's coming. Smart contractors aren't lamenting, they're preparing. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
What does real-life Washington, D.C. have in common with the mythical town of Lake Woebegone, Minnesota? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says we're a lot more alike than you think.
The Senate left hundreds of amendments on the floor when it passed the defense authorization bill. Federal News Radio takes a look at some of the more interesting ones.
Some documents related to veterans' disability claims are getting thrown out at Veterans Affairs regional offices, but the VA and its inspector general disagree whether the problem is a systemic issue or one that can be explained by human error.
The House Appropriations Committee dealt a significant budget blow to the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday as lawmakers debated the agency's role in the water crisis surrounding Flint, Michigan.
Decision day on those proposed $40,000 federal buyouts is approaching and Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there's lots more than bigger buyouts on the congressional shopping list.
The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General says the National Park Service is not properly handling employee mismanagement related to dozens of sexual harassment complaints, ethics violations and procurement misconduct.
The Coast Guard still has some trouble with major budgetary decisions, namely ones that determine whether the service has the right resources to meet the right mission at the right time, the Government Accountability Office said. And its plan to update and rebuild its aging fleet is also out of date.
Either federal employees are successful at their jobs 99 percent of the time, or the ratings systems used by federal agencies to measure employees' performance are flawed, a new GAO reports finds.
Congress passed a bill updating the Freedom of Information Act process, placing the burden on the agency to justify why it has to withhold information rather than asking the requester to justify its release
Last week, we predicted Congress, at least the House, would take a new tack in how it goes about tackling the annual spending bills. The House voted to approve its own appropriation for 2017, good news for Congressional agencies. What about the Senate and the rest of the government? Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
What might have worked for managing people in federal agencies 10 years ago is probably not working so well now. Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends team focused on the federal government and discovered some important trends. Sean Morris, director of the federal human capital practice at Deloitte, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how you can use the trends to help your agency.
Kim Luke left government after just four months as the IT category manager. GSA’s Mary Davie has taken over in the role.
Minorities made up 24.6 percent of the intelligence community workforce in fiscal 2015, a 1.4 percent increase since 2011, according to the latest workforce demographics report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Women represented 38.5 percent of the IC workforce. But compared with the rest of the federal workforce, the IC still has more progress to make.