People

  • Times of tight budgets, impending sequestration and a possible government shutdown require good leaders who can make tough decisions. But who are those leaders? Federal News Radio asked our readers to nominate people they work with who demonstrate the qualities of good leadership. You responded, we listened and a panel of judges picked the five Top Leaders in Federal Service.

    February 27, 2013
  • What does it take to be a great leader in federal service? What should you be doing now to prepare for a leadership position in the future? And, what can feds do about bad leaders in their offices? Suzanne Logan, director of the Office of Personnel Management's Center for Leadership Development and Federal Executive Institute, joined Federal News Radio for a special online chat on this subject. View an archive of the chat.

    February 26, 2013
  • Daniel Hirsch, state vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, discusses the issues affecting government employees who are working overseas. February 22, 2013

    February 22, 2013
  • News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.

    February 22, 2013
  • CACI appointed Kenneth Asbury as the company's president and chief executive officer on Wednesday. Asbury comes to CACI after 27 years of leading systems and services expansion as well as program delivery for Lockheed Martin.

    February 21, 2013
  • Undersecretary of the Navy Robert Work will become the CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a prestigious defense think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. Work will start at CNAS April 22.

    February 20, 2013
  • Peter Levin, the Veterans Affairs chief technology officer, is leaving the agency. He follows Roger Baker, the agency's CIO and assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, who resigned last week.

    February 18, 2013
  • Roger Baker, VA's assistant secretary in the Office of Information and Technology, helped improve the agency's management of IT projects, implement mobile devices and continued to address cybersecurity.

    February 15, 2013
  • Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, and Federal Times reporter Stephen Losey will discuss sequestration and other issues affecting federal workers. February 13, 2013

    February 13, 2013
  • Karen Mills, the head of the Small Business Administration, is resigning. Mills says she will stay on until a successor is confirmed.

    February 11, 2013
  • Linda Cureton has decided to leave government service after 30 years, including the last four as the space agency's chief information officer.

    January 30, 2013
  • Jenny Mattingley hosts a roundtable discussion of the Pathways Program. January 25, 2013

    January 26, 2013
  • Steve Cooper will head back to the private sector to his former management consulting business.

    January 25, 2013
  • If you want to be secretary of the Interior, the first thing you do is make sure you are born west of the Mississippi, preferably in California, Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. So what does that do to the job chances of Maryland-born, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry who is said to be on the short-list for the Interior job?

    January 25, 2013