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On this special rebroadcast of “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Marygrace Parker of the I-95 Corridor Coalition.
The Office of Personnel Management's Veronica Villalobos says the 2 percent growth in Hispanic federal employees is a sign of slow and steady progress.
The Office of Management and Budget released its annual guidance for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reporting and the cybersecurity strategy and implementation plan (CSIP) for civilian agencies. Both of these documents are part of the broader change happening across government to improve cybersecurity.
Establishing insider threat programs was a key Defense recommendation after the 2013 Navy Yard shootings. Some companies that do business with the government are far ahead and waiting for agencies to catch up. DoD officials now consider aerospace giant Lockheed Martin's program as a model.
The Senate's passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on Oct. 27 has a top House cybersecurity lawmaker pushing for the White House to get the bill as soon as possible.
VA wants to focus on the specialized care related to veterans' service that other facilities cannot do. But it may stop providing services commonly found elsewhere.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford earlier this month signed the Defense Department cybersecurity implementation plan that focuses on tools, culture and training.
In March of last year, a security panel urged agencies to monitor their employees for suspicious behavior. This was after a contractor killed 12 colleagues at the Washington Navy Yard. Agencies are still wrestling with the privacy implications, but some companies are far ahead. Pentagon officials have studied Lockheed Martin's two-year-old continuous evaluation program. Lockheed's director of counterintelligence Doug Thomas described it to Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp.
If human resources is so important and HR specialists are a mission critical occupation, why is it so rare to find someone who says they are happy with their HR support?
The Office of Personnel Management plans to notify an additional 700,000 people by the end of October, and by mid-November have notified roughly 10 million victims of the cyber breach.
It's no secret that property management is no easy task for the government, which has to manage a massive portfolio of thousands of buildings. Part of the problem is that it's hard to get a clear picture of what the government owns because of agencies' inconsistent approaches to counting facilities and different definitions for real property. David Wise, director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO, joined In Depth guest host Jared Serbu to discuss data reliability in federal real estate.
Senior Executive Service members say it has gotten harder to fill SES spots and similar positions over the past two years, according to a survey by the Senior Executives Association.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and 18 other members of his committee, introduced a resolution calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. Koskinen said his agency has made some progress in improving accountability and communication in the wake of IRS scandals.
OPM issued a final rule on behalf of the Federal Salary Council approving 13 new areas. But the updates will not be final until President Barack Obama signs an executive order.