Workforce

  • Faster, smaller, hipper, and even more efficient, teleworkers are morphing into mobile workers.

    November 01, 2010
  • OPM hosted a standing-room only training session to help agencies understand what the Executive Order to hire more people with disabilities calls for. OPM is developing new tools including a database of potentially qualified applicants and online training to help agencies bring more people with disabilities into the government.

    November 01, 2010
  • A pair of memos requires facilities worldwide to improve how they construct buildings to be more green and to use different light bulbs. The goal is to conserve energy, be environmentally responsible, and save taxpayer dollars.

    November 01, 2010
  • The Army Reserve is breaking ground Monday on an 88,000 square-foot headquarters at Fort Belvoir Monday. The new $19 million facility will accommodate more than 400 workers who now occupy leased space in Crystal City.

    October 31, 2010
  • Venable\'s Rob Burton and Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller count down their choices for the three most important Federal news stories of the week.

    October 29, 2010
  • Howard K. Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration, discusses the agency\'s mission and its current hiring initiatives. October 29, 2010

    October 29, 2010
  • A coalition of businesses, associations and citizen groups rate members of Congress on how they voted on bills that promote or hurt private sector companies and forces industry to compete with the government. But some experts say the business coalition is taking a too narrow view of what the government does.

    October 29, 2010
  • In a new report, the Government Accountability Office says the Federal Aviation Administration is taking steps to plan for and train its technician workforce but a more strategic approach is needed. Gerald Dillingham, the Director of Physical Infrastructure Issues at GAO, discussed the report with the DorobekINSIDER.

    October 28, 2010
  • Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli stops short of saying the entire acquisition system should be scrapped but he is pushing for big changes.

    October 28, 2010
  • ACT-IAC offers recommendations for improving large-scale IT acquisitions.

    October 28, 2010
  • Administrator Martha Johnson said changes in the way people work and the technology they have access to are major reasons why GSA will no longer guarantee a specific number of workers at the area telecenters. GSA remains committed to telework in other ways, including the launch of a new collaboration platform called FedSpace. It also awarded a contract to deploy telepresence at 15 offices around the country.

    October 28, 2010
  • The DorobekINSIDER asked about telework lessons learned from GSA\'s Mike Brinks, Regional Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service in Kansas City, Missouri; and Ellen Upchurch, Supervisory Contract Specialist with the Centers for Facilities, Maintainance and Hardware.

    October 27, 2010
  • Interior\'s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) committed to helping the nation reach its clean energy future. BLM\'s Ray Brady tells us how that could happen.

    October 27, 2010
  • OPM said its goal is to get the average hire in their agency in 80 days. One way the agency will continue to bring down the average time is through a new set of applicant assessment tools. The first will launch in January for accountants and financial analysts.

    October 27, 2010