Reorganization News

• OMB’s Weichert leaving for the private sector

  Margaret Weichert, the number two leader at the Office of Management and Budget, is leaving government for the private sector, she confirmed to Federal News Network.

  People
  February 14, 2020
• Trump’s 2021 budget pledges training for 400,000 federal employees

  The goal to train nearly 20% of all federal employees on cybersecurity, project management and data science skills is the Trump administration’s most clear target yet in its ongoing efforts to modernize the existing workforce.

  Workforce
  February 11, 2020
• Administration signals continued desire for OPM-GSA merger with 2021 budget request

  The Trump administration plans to again issue a joint budget request for the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration, Federal News Network has learned. The White House is expected to release the president’s 2021 request Monday.

  OPM
  February 07, 2020
• House Republicans unveil plan to change federal pay, cut retirement packages

  In today’s Federal Newscast, the Republican Study Committee want to overhaul federal employee pay, performance awards and hiring systems.

  Federal Newscast
  February 07, 2020
• DoD budget proposal includes $7.8B in cuts, transfers from Defense agencies

  The budget the Pentagon will propose next week includes $5.7 billion in program cancellations throughout DoD’s “fourth estate,” in addition to more than $2 billion in programs it wants to move to the control of the military services.

  Defense
  February 07, 2020
• Pentagon racing to establish new chief data officer within CIO’s office

  This year’s National Defense Authorization Act moved DoD’s chief data officer from the CMO’s office to the CIO’s office. But Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy appears to be starting from scratch with a new hire.

  Defense
  January 28, 2020
• Former BLM deputy urges caution at plans to relocate agency westward

  The Trump administration has been pushing to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters from Washington, D.C. — to Grand Junction, Colorado.

  Federal Drive
  January 15, 2020
• GAO assesses Office of Congressional Workplace Rights’ progress

  The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights is a little more than a year into reforms and expansion that Congress itself ordered in 2018.

  Federal Drive
  January 10, 2020
• FY 2020 brings new international development agency to life — finally

  The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) formed out of the old Overseas Private Investment Corporation and elements of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

  Federal Drive
  January 10, 2020