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Salaries for cleared workers rose an average of 7% last year, and remote work opportunities are also on the rise.
Even when a claim against a federal contractor is dismissed, it never dies. Like a zombie, it can rise forth and bite you. That's what a decade-plus dispute between Textron and the Defense Contract Management Agency shows
In today's Federal Newscast: The Veterans Affairs Department's Inspector General tells the Veterans Health Administration to strengthen background checks to avoid hiring disqualified people. The Navy wants a 4.5% budget increase next year, to $256 billion. And CISA is launching a new initiative to combat ransomware.
Discover how data, technology and new recruiting strategies are helping USDA, EPA, GSA, NASA and NIH succeed in the race for talent, especially when it comes to high tech, science and other hard-to-fill positions.
More than two years into the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest federal employee union appear no closer to an agreement on a new labor contract.
The fifth annual Defense Department-wide financial audit, its most recent, required that independent accountants look at an organization with roughly 2.9 million people and $3.5 trillion in assets.
Despite industry and government efforts, identity data theft still hits tens of millions of Americans every year. The last quarter of 2022, for example, the tally was something like 22 million. That's according to the latest breach dashboard compiled by data company TransUnion.
In today's Federal Newscast: A union president, representing 150,000 federal workers, is hanging up the placards. The Army's first-ever civilian CIO has new private-sector gig, dealing with the public sector. And the Office of Personnel Management is processing retirement claims faster than a fax machine.
The Biden administration's agenda for the federal workforce next year is coming into focus, with the release of more details supporting its fiscal 2024 budget request.
Office of Personnel Management’s monthly average processing time is down for the first time in almost 2 years.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, facing an increased workload as more veterans seek VA health care and benefits, is prepared to significantly staff up under the Biden administration’s fiscal 2024 budget request.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee pressed Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja on federal telework, hiring process reforms, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the retirement case backlog and much more.
The National Science Foundation, as listeners of this podcast heard from director Sethuraman Panchanathan the other day, received a new billion dollars in funding from the Chips Act. To help deal with a record budget, NSF is adding a new office called the Office of Business Information Technology Services, or BITS.
The new strategy identifies four pillars for improvement between now and 2027, but full details won't be released until the publication of a forthcoming implementation strategy.