Management

• SES group: White House keeping mum on award alternatives

  Last spring, as across-the-board budget cuts roiled through agencies across government, the White House decided to cancel the monetary portion of the Presidential Rank Awards, which granted recipients as much as 35 percent of their salary in a one-time bonus. But the White House maintained it was "focused on finding means to acknowledge excellence in non-monetary ways." The Senior Executives Association (SEA), in a statement released Monday said it still hasn't heard from President Barack Obama on those alternatives.

  Management

  January 13, 2014
• Turnover in GSA’s senior ranks continues

  Dennis Papula, director for management and strategy in the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, becomes the fifth senior executive to leave in the last week. He is moving to the Federal Trade Commission.

  Management

  January 13, 2014
• House plans 3-day CR to extend deadline for budget talks

  Republican leaders plan to pass a short-term funding bill this week to extend by three days the deadline for wrapping up a massive, $1 trillion-plus catch-all spending bill covering funding for the rest of the year. The short-term measure would give lawmakers until midnight next Saturday to pass the larger funding bill. The current stopgap funding bill expires at midnight on Wednesday.

  Budget

  January 13, 2014
• 2013 Trends in law enforcement

  National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Chairman and CEO Craig Floyd, and Jon Adler with the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, will discuss the 2013 Preliminary end of the year fatality report. January 10, 2014

  FEDtalk

  January 10, 2014
• Helping veterans find jobs

  General Gary Profit, senior director of military programs at Walmart, will talk about the company's initiative to hire more veterans. January 10, 2014

  Fed Access

  January 10, 2014
• Report: Budget, training cuts put IRS ‘at risk’

  In an annual report to Congress, the National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson, wrote that the IRS faces "unstable and chronic underfunding that puts at risk the IRS's ability to meet its current responsibilities, much less articulate and achieve the necessary transformation to an effective, modern tax agency."

  Budget

  January 10, 2014
• National Guard worried about growing risk of attrition

  Amid debates about the proper size of the active military versus the reserve component, the National Guard's chief warned his force will lose its best talent if it's not given opportunities to engage in the guard's federal mission.

  Budget

  January 10, 2014
• What’s next for Congress in 2014?

  On this week's Capital Impact show, Bloomberg Government analysts will discuss what's ahead for Congress in 2014, and the potential impact of the contract compensation cap. January 9, 2014

  Budget

  January 09, 2014
• Coburn to Congress: Look in the mirror for the cause of waste

  Sen. Tom Coburn told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday that Congress isn't doing its job and that's the root cause of much of the waste in government. Rep. Darrell Issa promised to work with Coburn and Sen. Tom Carper on legislation to reduce overlapping programs.

  Congress

  January 09, 2014
• OMB revising data breach reporting requirements

  The Government Accountability Office in a recent report found the requirement for agencies to report data breaches to the Homeland Security Department within one hour of discovering the incident is of little value.

  Congress

  January 09, 2014
• Strategically Prioritizing at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  What are the strategic priorities of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases? What has been learned about emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases? What's on the horizon for the NIAID? Join host Michael Keegan as he explore these questions and more with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director, NIAID. Dr. Anthony Fauci Director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

  Management

  January 09, 2014
• Hettinger strives to restore confidence, reinvigorate TechAmerica

  Mike Hettinger, TechAmerica's new senior vice president of the public sector, has been charged with ensuring federal contractors that the industry association is committed to the public sector for the long term. Some members are taking a wait-and-see approach before deciding whether or not to stay with the organization.

  Technology

  January 09, 2014
• Officials cite progress in labor-management forums

  Federal-employee unions say they're having more of a voice in the agency decisionmaking process, thanks to a four-year-old directive from President Barack Obama calling for greater collaboration between labor groups and agency leadership. Despite a slow start last year, the creation of partnerships between federal-employee unions and agency leadership — known as labor-management forums — ramped up throughout the course of 2013, according to Bill Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

  Management

  January 08, 2014
• DHS nominee seeks ‘to hit the reset button’ in embattled IG office

  In his nomination hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday, John Roth, currently the director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations, said he aimed to turn around employee morale in the IG's office, which has been rocked by allegations of misconduct by the former acting head of the office. Roth, whose nomination has garnered near-universal support from both Republican and Democratic members of the committee.

  Congress

  January 08, 2014