Beth Cobert
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The Office of Personnel Management's Office of the Inspector General has issued a management alert warning that the agency's procurement process for certain benefits is outdated, creates a conflict of interest and could cause taxpayers to overpay on services.
October 27, 2015 -
In the Office of Personnel Management's latest report on employment of people with disabilities, the number of federal employees increased between 2013 and 2014 by about 13,200 people.
October 13, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert said the department began sending notification letters to victims of the cyber breach. The letters include information about the identity theft protection and credit monitoring services.
October 01, 2015 -
A new memo from Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert does little to ease her Inspector General's concerns with OPM's Infrastructure Improvement Project.
September 14, 2015 -
In Depth host Francis Rose sits down with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) for a conversation about some of the top stories impacting federal employees.
September 08, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management and Department of Defense have awarded a $133 million contract to help protect the personal information of people impacted by the cyber breach.
September 01, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general wrote a letter to acting Director Beth Cobert highlighting concerns about the lack of cooperation from the Donna Seymour’s office. Cobert and federal CIO Tony Scott continue to support Seymour’s efforts to improve OPM’s cybersecurity posture.
August 06, 2015 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 Earl L. Gay, President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy OPM director, has withdrawn his name for the position, according to OPM.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.
July 31, 2015-
For now, former Deputy OMB Director Beth Cobert is in charge at the Office of Personnel Management. She is already talking to congressional leaders about the way forward for OPM and she's making a good first impression on them. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the outreach from Cobert is rather uncommon.
July 27, 2015 -
Your agency will have to help pay for the credit monitoring and identity protection services for the 21 million current and former federal officials whose data was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management. OPM tells agencies it will raise its fees and require agencies to contribute funding for the next three years to help pay for these services. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more details and reaction.
July 22, 2015 -
UPDATED: Agencies with the largest percentage of security clearances, such as DoD, DHS and VA, will end up shouldering a huge part of the burden to pay for the credit monitoring services for 21 million current and former federal employees impacted by the second data breach. AFGE and federal officials are angered after acting OPM Director Beth Cobert tells agencies about OPM’s plans to raise its fees for security clearance services it provides in order to recoup the costs of the identity protection services it must purchase for the victims of the attack.
July 21, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management and its new acting director are in crisis mode right now as the agency responds to the largest breach of federal employee data in history. But among the many challenges Beth Cobert faces as she takes the helm at OPM is making sure the agency pays attention to its basic human capital management missions -- and doesn't get distracted by the emergency at hand. Don Kettl is a management expert at the Unversity of Maryland School of Public Policy. He tells In Depth guest host Jared Serbu that the data breach probably wasn't the fault of former OPM director Katherine Archuleta -- but her departure from the agency wasn't a surprise.
July 14, 2015 -
Danny Werfel, the former acting IRS commissioner, sheds light on the challenges Beth Cobert, the new acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, will face leading an agency in trouble.
July 13, 2015 -
OPM Director Katherine Archuleta steps down one day after after her agency announced the results of the investigation into the breach of its background investigation databases. OMB Deputy Director for Management Beth Cobert will become acting director beginning Saturday.
July 10, 2015 -
The White House has named two dozen federal employees to a group that will advise the president on possible changes to the Senior Executive Service. Obama joined the group at its meeting Thursday.
March 20, 2015