The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
Secretary Julian Castro greets and thanks Department of Housing and Urban Development employees Tuesday outside of HUD's Washington headquarters.
The U.S. Postal Service procurement officials say supply chain diversity not only brings small, minority-owned, and women-owned companies into the business of government, but keeps the agency flexible enough to meet new challenges.
No contractor wants to hire felons to work on federal contracts. So, they use background checks as part of the hiring process. But that can get you into hot water too if the company policy ends up discriminating against people in legally protected categories. Kenneth Rosenberg, a partner at Fox Rothschild, sheds some light on this subject on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
As part of the Hiring Excellence campaign, OPM is going on the road to speak with the federal HR community in the field. The goal is to better educate HR specialists and hiring managers about the wide variety of authorities and flexibilities they already have to recruit and hire new talent.
Industry partners are trying to give the next DHA CIO a leg up when the position is filled.
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
The Postal Service has several big indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts worth billions, but it doesn't always follow the rules. Lucine Willis, deputy director for supply management and facilities in USPS' Office of Inspector General, fills in the all details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Gina Farrisee, assistant secretary for human resources and administration at the VA, will become the department's new deputy chief of staff. Meghan Flanz, deputy general counsel for legal operations and accountability at the VA, will take Farrisee's place as the assistant HR secretary, a VA spokesperson confirmed.
OMB Director Shaun Donovan told agencies the Obama administration is preparing a budget database in preparation for the presidential transition in January.
Customs and Border Protection is streamlining its services to businesses by centralizing its import operations in 10 Centers of Excellence and Expertise.
A new site from the Labor Department will point veterans to the right resources they need to find a job or start their own business when they re-enter civilian life. The new Veterans.gov collects information from a variety of sources and easily organizes it in one place, said Terry Gerton, deputy assistant secretary for policy within the Labor Department's Veterans' Employment and Training Service.
Commerce, USDA, Transportation demonstrate augmented role of CIO to manage significant projects and make much-needed change.
Reps. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the Small Business Committee respectively, wrote a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in early April asking for more details on how GSA is ensuring category management doesn’t impact small businesses.
Steve Grewal joined the General Services Administration as its new deputy chief information officer after spending the last four years at the Education Department.