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House Armed Services Committee Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Joe Heck confirms a 2.1 percent pay raise for troops.
The White House hosts agency leaders to develop concrete, actionable ideas on developing a more diverse, inclusive federal workforce.
The Office of Personnel Management is behind on its background security checks and retirement claims processing for fiscal 2016. In the agency's financial report, OPM acting Director Beth Cobert pledges a continued effort to make up the difference through a variety of efforts like new contracts and using electronic records.
With the election, the transition and the Thanksgiving holiday, it's been a busy month for feds. Here are three things you may have missed this month that could have an impact on you or your colleagues in the federal workforce.
Federal News Radio speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about interesting things to do in and near the nation's capital.
In today's #FedFeed, Homeland Security Department workers stay on-the-clock to keep travelers safe.
Author and security expert Marc Goodman joins Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access to discuss cybersecurity , and how newly emerging technologies are changing the cyber threat landscape. December 2, 2016
One military advocacy group is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to make military families' issues a top priority.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked the Government Accountability Office to review potential conflicts of interest, possible violations of security protocol and issues of transparency and logistics of President-elect Donald Trump's transition. Meanwhile, two other lawmakers are once again raising concerns about the potential for political appointees to "burrow in" to career positions.
Army Secretary Eric Fanning warns against bumping up force size without proper funding.
President-elect Donald Trump's suggested hiring freeze on the federal workforce could have major implications for federal contractors. With possible plans to cut the size of the federal workforce through attrition and retirements, some contractors say industry may have to shoulder more of the workload, since the capability requirements won't change even as government shrinks.
Agencies have gotten approval from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management raise spending caps slightly on performance awards and bonuses for all non-Senior Executive Service employees in fiscal 2017. Agencies can now spend up to 1.5 percent of the aggregate salaries for those employees at the end of the fiscal year.
Are most federal workers Republicans, Democrats or Independents? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey has been asking them how they vote and the answers are interesting.
Federal News Radio speaks with Recreation News Editor Marvin Bond about interesting things to do in and near the nation's capital.