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Agencies say the guidance and tools that the Office of Personnel Management gives to department headquarters often does not filter down to components in the field. OPM began the first of its listening and training tours last week on the federal hiring process.
James Onusko and Christy Wilder will be the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) transition team director and deputy director, respectively. They will lead the effort to create a new organization to handle federal security clearances.
Jeh Johnson, the DHS secretary, certified March 17 that the agency met the requirement in the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act to accept and provide cyber threat data in real time with the private sector.
The House Veterans Affairs Committee is considering legislation to give the VA secretary the authority to set pay and performance appraisals for medical directors. It also includes several provisions that are designed to help the VA attract and hire more doctors and nurses.
As the National Guard expands its cyber forces to 30 units, it is still trying to figure out how to deal with a cyber training backlog.
Federal agencies are unable to share their assessments of job candidates with one another. It's no way to run a 2 million-person personnel system, Tim McManus, vice president of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Accountability in the Senior Executive Service will be at the center of congressional discussions on a new omnibus legislative package for the Veterans Affairs Department. Senate VA Committee Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said he wants the VA and the committee to finish its work on the legislation by April 1.
Senior Executives Association interim president Jason Briefel joins host Mike Causey to talk about issues affecting senior executives in the federal government, and Katie Maddocks with the Federal Managers Association will talk about some pending legislation on Capitol Hill and how it could affect feds. March 16, 2016
The Army will have to cut 14,000 soldiers, 10,000 of which will be officers to reach its force structure goals.
If innovators in industry can do it, why is the government — one of the world’s largest buyers of information technology — lagging behind when it comes to adopting digital technology?
The Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office defended their increased budget requests to Congress, emphasizing the amount of returns on the investment each agency brings back to the government.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defended his agency's $40.6 billion fiscal 2017 budget, telling a congressional committee that cybersecurity funding would help hiring efforts.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said federal employees wouldn't worry so much about changing locality pay, if Congress passed higher, across the board pay raises overall. He called for a 5.3 percent bump in pay next year, well over the 1.6 percent raise President Barack Obama proposed in his 2017 budget request.
DoD says BRAC would bring big savings in a time when it's facing big budget shortfalls if sequestration returns.