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A congressional authority to hire 1,000 new cybersecurity professionals is prompting the Homeland Security Department, along with the Defense Department and Office of Personnel Management, to develop non-traditional ways to recruit and retain new talent.
Dr. David Shulkin, the undersecretary for health at VA, says the agency needs better integration with private sector medical providers in order to "re-engineer" the way veterans access treatment.
The Government Accountability Office's sixth annual report on "fragmentation, overlap and duplication," put the spotlight once again on the DoD, Treasury Department the Department of Health and Human Services for the "significant opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement [that] exist in these three areas."
Erin Andrew, assistant administrator of the Small Business Administration joins Women of Washington hosts Aileen Black and Gigi Schumm to talk about her personal journey and the work at SBA that is helping woman businesses like the program InnovateHER.
Public Service Recognition Week is a reminder that for every jerk there are thousands of quality people working hard for citizens. Tim McManus the vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what people can expect.
Big changes are coming to the Defense Department and the VA. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you're next.
Federal News Radio reporters Scott Maucione and Nicole Ogrysko join host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss whether Congress will take action to change the personnel systems at the Pentagon and the VA. April 13, 2016
The federal human resources community suggests agencies change their approach to hiring. Rather than hedge their bets that USAJobs.gov will help them identify a diverse pool of qualified new applicants, hiring managers should constantly target specific groups of talented people, the Office of Personnel Management says.
On this edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Dr. Jennifer F. Helgeson, an economist in the Applied Economics Office of the Enginerring Laboratory (EL) at NIST
Former DoD personnel lead Brad Carson said his ideas will prevail and more change is coming for personnel issues.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said she is spending at least part of her last year in Congress advocating for more money for science and medical research, and for an overall pay raise for federal employees.
Business groups are looking warily at yet another proposed new rule from the Obama administration. This one would require contractors to have mandatory paid sick leave. John McNerney, general counsel at the Mechanical Contrators Association of America, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the new rule could damage contracts with the government.
The Social Security Administration deals with Americans as they age. It's workforce tends to be aging also. One reason is people tend to stay at Social Security. Reggie Wells, SSA's chief human capital officer. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the agency's largest group of employees is not the oldest.
Assuming the Army completes its planned drawdown to 450,000 active duty soldiers by the end of next year, the service will own and operate 21 percent more real estate and facilities than it can conceivably put to productive military use.