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EPA advocates say recovery efforts for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are proof of how important it is to have a fully-funded public health agency.
September 13, 2017 -
The House Oversight Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would allow the Secret Service to raise the salary and overtime pay cap for agents tasked with protecting President Donald Trump and his family.
September 13, 2017 -
The Defense Department is asking Congress to make fundamental changes to the up or out system.
September 13, 2017 -
New diversity efforts include requiring any open ambassador position to include at least one minority candidate.
September 12, 2017 -
Veterans made up slightly more of the federal workforce in fiscal 2016 compared to previous years, but agencies overall hired fewer new veterans to fill government jobs.
September 12, 2017 -
Federal HR expert Jeff Neal tells the story of reduction in force he managed at the Department of the Navy — how they planned it, what the RIF accomplished, and why it worked.
September 12, 2017 -
Financial literacy, parental leave and contracting issues are all being addressed by amendments to the 2018 defense authorization bill.
September 11, 2017 -
Leaders in the intelligence community are still performing a balancing act between employee freedom and security issues.
September 07, 2017 -
The Air Force is trying to think differently about how it handles it's most important investment.
September 01, 2017 -
The University of Maryland University College wants to fill a void with a new Master’s program in cloud architecture and management.
August 31, 2017 -
The Pentagon's new Cyber Excepted Service will extend the probationary period for new employees to three years and give hiring managers more flexibility to recruit candidates.
August 30, 2017 -
Forcing transgender service members to leave could deal a critical blow to the military's readiness and waste hundreds of millions of dollars.
August 28, 2017 -
The Army Cyber Center of Excellence became fully operational on Aug. 9 and published in April its first doctrine for how it fights in cyberspace to include electronic warfare.
August 28, 2017 -
Everybody in your office under 40 could disappear, if federal agencies decide to implement a reduction in force in order to cut staff under the president's proposed budget.
August 25, 2017 What can be done to improve and speed up the process for granting security clearances to federal workers and contractors? Find out when Evan Lesser, president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access. September 15, 2017
August 23, 2017