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The Office of Personnel Management experienced some of the biggest changes in the year since hackers stole the data of 22 million current and former federal employees. The cyber attack helped put in motion some of the biggest cybersecurity improvements in the last decade.
The Office of Personnel Management posted a job announcement June 1 for a new chief information officer.
Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management Beth Cobert is encouraging feds to fill out the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey before it closes in June, listing changes at OPM as proof that agencies pay attention to and act on the results.
The Washington Nationals celebrated government employees on Tuesday, May 24 in recognition of Federal Workforce Day. OPM acting Director Beth Cobert and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson threw out the ceremonial first pitches.
In a letter to acting OPM Director Beth Cobert, Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) say they're concerned the agency doesn't have firm plans for transitioning the federal security clearance process from the old organization to the new National Background Investigations Bureau.
The General Services Administration picked 109 vendors for the $11.5 billion unrestricted and small business Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts.
The Office of Personnel Management terminated its contract with Imperatis on May 9 after the small business alerted the agency it had financial trouble and would be ceasing operations immediately.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released much-anticipated guidance on using social media during background checks.Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center at ODNI, said the policy is a collaborative effort to "strike the right balance" between obtaining publicly available information but not stepping on civil liberties.
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said he's continuing his hold on Beth Cobert's nomination to be the Office of Personnel Management's acting director, because he isn't satisfied with the agency's response to his concerns over an exemption for members of Congress in the Affordable Care Act.
As part of the Hiring Excellence campaign, OPM is going on the road to speak with the federal HR community in the field. The goal is to better educate HR specialists and hiring managers about the wide variety of authorities and flexibilities they already have to recruit and hire new talent.
A rule proposed by the Office of Personnel Management on April 29 would delay criminal history checks until after federal employers have already issued a conditional offer of employment to an applicant.
Beth Cobert, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, wants more people to know about the hard, important work federal employees do every day.
The Senior Executives Association honored 43 recipients of the 2015 Presidential Rank Awards at a banquet in Washington April 21. The winners were responsible for saving government more than $121 billion. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave the keynote speech.
The Office of Personnel Management has new guidance for agencies to begin closing six governmentwide skills gaps. Closing gaps in cybersecurity, as well as the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields is one of OPM's top concerns.