In its 2015 annual report, the National Taxpayer Advocate warns that the Internal Revenue Service could jeopardize customer service and taxpayer compliance if it makes certain changes to how it handles communication, information and processing.
The Army and GSA say most families who've been waiting months for promised childcare subsidies have been compensated. But several other aspects of the Army's Fee Assistance Program will take months more to correct.
The Office of Special Counsel decided not to go forward with a proposed regulation that would have expanded the rights of contractors' employees to submit complaints to OSC.
Initial secret and top-secret cases took an average of 95 and 179 days to process, respectively, by the end of last fiscal year, according to a fourth quarter update on Performance.gov.
The budget deal cuts $250 million in civilian headquarters and mandates a report from the inspector general.
Angela Bailey, who has spent the last eight years at OPM, is taking on a new role as the Homeland Security Department’s chief human capital officer.
If you want to hire and retain great people, listen up. The Executive Resources Board is the Social Security Administration’s central hub for all things recruitment and retention. More than 80 percent of all SSA leaders and more than half of all Senior Executive Service members have come through this development program. Reggie Wells is Social Security’s chief human capital officer and deputy commissioner of the Office of Human Resources. He tells executive editor Jason Miller about how the board is helping SSA prepare its workforce for today and tomorrow. Miller shares that interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Pundits say every action that comes out of Capitol Hill this year — bills, nominations or hearings — has ties to the 2016 elections.
Reggie Wells, the Social Security Administration’s chief human capital officer and deputy commissioner of the Office of Human Resources, said the agency is seeing positive results after expanding its leadership development program to employees at the GS-9 level.
The new DoD policy creates specialists to oversee IT, construction and medical services that work closely with department components.
The FBI will hire more than 230 National Instant Criminal Background Check System examiners and other specialists, nearly double its existing workforce, to help process mandatory background checks. The agency is also partnering with the U.S. Digital Service to overhaul the NICS.
With a new year, there will be developments that every federal worker should follow as they play out. Jeff Neal, senior vice president of ICF International, lists seven things feds need to keep an eye on in 2016.
Troy Cribb is the new associate administrator for the Office of Governmentwide Policy at GSA after spending the last decade as a congressional staff member.
Customs and Border Protection has been testing body-worn video cameras for its officers, and has passed along the lessons it's learned to other agencies.
Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.