Management
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Data from the Partnership for Public Service showed that people of color made up 16% of career SES members in 2007, increasing to 24.7% by 2022. But for senior executive group leaders, that change is not big enough.
August 10, 2023 -
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that “more aggressive cost reductions to operations” are needed to keep USPS’ long-term financial goals within reach.
August 08, 2023 -
The Hubert H. Humphrey Federal Building, home to headquarters for the Health and Human Services Department, might also lament about being considered ugly. In fact, its become something of an internet thing, after a Washington newspaper called HHS the ugliest building in D.C.
August 08, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department needs to do more to avoid recruiting criminals or political extremists.
August 08, 2023 -
After launching in May, the Office of Transformation at the Social Security Administration is taking a data-driven, proactive approach to try to improve customer experience.
August 07, 2023 -
Poverty often means less access to good health care, and therefore worse outcomes than those of the wealthy. Now the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $50 million in grants to establish five new organizations devoted to cancer prevention and care.
August 07, 2023 -
Maybe Ron DeSantis knew what he meant to say, but gosh, his throat-slit comment was way off the mark.
August 07, 2023 -
When Congress abolished the role of chief management officer, it left a void that the Defense Management Institute is trying to help fill.
August 04, 2023 -
The human remains of recently deceased individuals often require transporting over long distances. In the case of cremated remains, they often go via the Postal Service. And the Postal Office of Inspector General has found, USPS needs to improve some of its procedures for handling them.
August 04, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Military families will now be able to use $5,000 in pre-tax income to care for dependents. DoD's CIO mandates new rules for buying cloud services. And presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will "start slitting throats" of federal employees his first day on the job.
August 04, 2023 -
Most DHS employees can't telework, but Senate appropriators are evaluating the "impact" of alternative work arrangements across homeland security components.
August 03, 2023 -
The Postal Service is laying the foundation for electric vehicles to make up a majority of its fleet in less than a decade, a plan that puts the agency well ahead of the Biden administration’s green government goals.
August 03, 2023 -
As many other agencies announce decreases to telework, the Government Publishing Office is taking a different approach to the future of work.
August 03, 2023 -
Like so many projects, sequencing human genomes has gotten harder the closer the work came to completion. A National Institutes of Health team spent seven years heading up a worldwide consortium assembling the last 8% of the human genetic code.
August 03, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The State Department has launched a Bureau of Global Health to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Airmen stuck overseas, due to lack of government money -- three weeks later -- have the funding. And top employees at the Interior Department get their telework opportunities cut to 50%.
August 03, 2023