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During the second hearing of the week, the Office of Personnel Management defended its hiring of Winvale and CSID despite continued questions about the $21 million contract. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) pressed OPM about the possibility of the second breach impacting 32 million current and former federal employees.
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The Office of Personnel Management will hire a special cyber advisor, accelerate the implementation of two-factor authentication and data encryption technologies.
June 25, 2015 -
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has approved legislation that could change how federal employees are hired and managed. Expect tighter controls over agency charge cards, employee bonuses and program management if these bills become law.
June 24, 2015 -
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This column was originally published on Jeff Neal’s blog, ChiefHRO.com, and was republished here with permission from the author. The short answer is no. Just because someone made off with data on millions of employees,…
June 24, 2015 The Office of Personnel Management has heard the complaints loud and clear about the customer service from Winvale and CSID, the companies providing credit monitoring services to federal employees after the 4 million person data breach. OPM director Katherine Archuleta tells Senators she is doing everything she can to ensure current and former federal employees are getting responses to their questions about the breach. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss just how OPM is improving the performance of its contractors.
June 24, 2015The Agriculture Department is trying lots of ways to develop its next generation workforce. One bureau has set up partnerships with schools in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia to let high school students intern as crop inspectors. Lorenzo A. Tribbett is the director of the Specialty Crop Inspection Division at USDA. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain more about the program and its impact so far.
June 24, 2015-
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The Office of Personnel Management is considering sending an additional request to Congress asking for additional funding in 2016 to help pay for cybersecurity fixes, but members of Congress and the agency's inspector general say that money may not be what is needed in this situation. The request may come as senators hear why OPM needs $32 million more next year for its IT modernization program.
June 24, 2015 In the 2015 federal version of "The Blob," bad people hack into Uncle Sam's holy of holies, the central personnel files. Names, Social Security numbers and highly personal data is breached. Like The Blob, the number of people affected is not getting any smaller, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
June 24, 2015On this edition of "Ask the CHCO", host Lauren Larson interviews Antonia Harris, the Chief Human Capital Officer of the General Services Administration about the scope of human capital at the agency.
June 23, 2015-
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The Office of Personnel Management\'s contract for credit monitoring services has come under scrutiny lately. OPM closed the bidding process after only 36 hours, which led several procurement experts to question whether the agency steered the contract toward Winvale. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has started looking into the contract, sending a letter to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta last week seeking answers about both the rationale for the contract award, as well as the performance of Winvale and its subcontractor CSID. Sen. Warner joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what he wants to know and why he\'s so upset.
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Should Office of Personnel Director Katherine Archuleta resign over data breach? Weigh in and take our poll.
June 23, 2015
