Margaret Weichert, the president's nominee to the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, easily earned approval from members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee during Thursday's nomination hearing.
The Trump administration's push to reorganize government and reshape the federal workforce is prompting agencies to think about the work they do and the skills their current employees will need to accomplish it.
The Department of Homeland Security is trying something outside of the standard reorganization playbook.
The Army has its eyes set on closing the gap between technology life cycles and acquisition cycles.
Thomas Hill of the Brookings Institution says the State Department's re-org plan looks like a lot of earlier ones, ambitious language but few specifics.
Federal News Radio reporters Nicole Ogrysko and Meredith Somers cover the civilian agencies of the U.S. government. Together they bring a fresh and thoughtful approach to the stories from the federal workforce that are often overlooked.
American University's Bob Tobias told Federal Drive that Trump administration reorganization plans won't succeed without cooperation and buy-in from the rank and file members.
The age-old question is particularly relevant as agencies prepare to reorganize and cut personnel.
A new survey from Deloitte and the Senior Executives Association paints a grim picture of the senior executive corps.
Both the Veterans Affairs and Interior Departments are moving federal employees out of Washington, D.C., and into consolidated regional offices.
The president might call it "reorganization." Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin might call it "modernization." But the general principles are the same.
Communication and transparency during the government reorganization process is going well for some, and not for others.
The Office of Personnel Management is preparing a new talent management and succession planning guide.
Senior executives at the Interior Department say recent reassignments have demoralized the SES corps and agency leadership has done little to involve them in planning for a coming reorganization.