The Chief Human Capital Officers Council hopes to duplicate and scale up successful pilots for federal hiring reform, including the use of shared certificates and skills-based hiring practices.
Although low pay is the most common barrier to retaining federal wildland firefighters, the Government Accountability Office said other factors like poor-work life balance and career advancement challenges also impact the workforce.
President Joe Biden picked 233 federal employees across 33 agencies as winners of the 2022 Presidential Rank Awards.
The National Finance Center just implemented a multifactor authentication system for agencies to access employee payroll data, and more cybersecurity updates are still ahead.
As USDA continues to rebuild its workforce following major staff attrition in 2019, agency leaders are simultaneously focused on broader goals to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
During the Feds Feed Families campaign this year, federal employees so far donated more than 7 million pounds of food, and counting.
After considering feedback from employees, stakeholders and others, USDA released its final strategic plan to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
In today's Federal Newscast: USDA sprinkles some fertilizer on its growing efforts at diversity. An immigrant woman of color, who once ran DARPA and NIST, takes over the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. And DoD thinks of new ways to help soldiers fight inflation.
The Agriculture Department's chief human capital officer shares her thoughts on how to keep employee satisfaction high.
The Interior Department has a new chief information officer in Darren Ash, who inherits a $1.6 billion IT budget and comes over from the Agriculture Department.
USDA and NOAA are among the agencies that are taking advantage of the continuity of service agreements, giving them an extra year to complete their transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
An investment from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is paving the way for a new type of ice cube to revolutionize how industries and individuals keep food cold and curb food waste.
Programs at HHS, USDA and the Education Department remained fairly steady during continuing resolutions, GAO found.
The Chief Information Officer at GSA is seemingly in unrestrained hiring mode. Meanwhile, federal employees under 30 are resigning at higher rates than the overall average.
In today's Federal Newscast: It looks like DoD might be underreporting what it's spending on cloud services. CISA can expect a huge budget increase next year.