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Updated: Retired Rear Adm. Earl L. Gay, President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy OPM director, has withdrawn his name for the position, according to OPM. Since 2013, Gay served as the senior adviser to former director Katherine Archuleta.
The Senate passed a piece of legislation Wednesday that will help the Veterans Affairs Department avoid a budget shortfall that could impact the care some veterans receive.
The House passed the VA Accountability Act of 2015, which would give the Veterans Affairs Department the power to remove or demote a VA employee based on misconduct or performance.
Whistleblowers told a House committee that managers at the Environmental Protection Agency turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual harassment for more than a decade.
The Office of Personnel Management's data breach has people questioning the competence of OPM’s staff and leaders, and asking why OPM exists in the first place, says former DHS HR executive Jeff Neal. So what does something other than business-as-usual look like?
'Tis the season. Election season that is. And that means it's time to brush up on the Hatch Act. The 1939 law prohibits certain federal employees from engaging in some forms of political activity. But does it apply to you? In this week's Legal Loop, Debra Roth, a partner at the law firm Shaw, Bransford and Roth, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with some tips for how to stay out of trouble at work during election season.
The problem with most data breaches is that too often, IT and security staffs only find out about them long after the damage has been done and the hackers have moved on to other soft targets, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
If you want more time off in your next life, consider running for Congress, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
Katrina McFarland, the assistant secretary of Defense for acquisition, said a new report is in the final approval stages that will detail changes to the Defense FAR. The goal is to save the military and industry money from unnecessary procurement rules.
The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command will be in charge of hiring a contractor to provide identity-protection services to victims of the breach on the Office of Personnel Management's background-investigation database. NAVSEA will issue an RFQ early next week. GSA was supposed to send it out this week.
The Office of Personnel Management is in post-mortem stage on Capitol Hill. Members and their staffers are either knowledgable about technology issues or learning. Parham Eftekhari is co-founder and senior fellow of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. Mark Seward is a fellow at ICIT. They tell In Depth with Francis Rose about their group's analysis of the OPM cyber breach that they sent to to members of Congress and their staffs.
On this special edition of “Disaster Relief for America”, host Tim Karney interviews host Tom Moran about the All Hazards Consortium.
The House has a number of bills on its calendar this week that, if enacted, could have significant impacts on federal employees and their dependents.
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, do journalists just like to kick “bureaucrats?" Or, are they just too lazy to check job comparisons given to them by think tanks with a philosophical axe to grind?