Dan Blair

OPM must address internal skills gaps before it can effectively help other agencies

Although there has been progress toward training and hiring staff, persistent internal skills gaps pose a “significant risk” to OPM’s ability to help other…

Agency Oversight

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Senate confirmation process lags as leadership vacancies remain

Management

After six years, OPM has a permanent inspector general

Agency Oversight

NAPA report details path forward for OPM, but advocates worry it’ll be easily forgotten

Workforce

New federal hiring EO attempts to find quality among the ‘experts’

Hiring/Retention

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks at a news conference on Monday, April 20, 2020 in Annapolis, Md., with his wife, Yumi Hogan, right, where the governor announced Maryland has received a shipment from a South Korean company to boost the state's ability to conduct tests for COVID-19 by 500,000. Hogan said he asked his wife, who is Korean, to help negotiate with Korean officials, on March 28, and that set in motion 22 days of vetting and negotiations to bring the large increase in testing capacity to Maryland. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Stay home or reopen: Do you trust your agency leader to make the right call?

Federal Report

Bipartisan Policy Center

Elections mean transitions, even if the incumbent wins

Management

Could it be time to rethink how federal agencies conduct oversight functions?

Federal Drive

Former OPM director leads task force looking into agency performance

Federal Drive

Does the administration have what it takes to reinvigorate an outdated civil service system?

Workforce

Federal leaders say civil service merit principles are timeless. But is OPM?

Workforce

OPM details strategy for workforce reshaping, basic tenets of Trump’s management agenda

The first Quadrennial Federal Workforce Priorities Report, which the Office of Personnel Management released earlier this week, describes its future vision…

Workforce

Time is now to reimagine the civil service, federal experts say

In a new white paper from the National Academy of Public Administration, federal experts say a breakdown of the federal human capital system ultimately…

Trump nominates 30-year government veteran to be new OPM director

Workforce

President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate George Nesterczuk, a former senior adviser with broad government experience, to lead the Office of Personnel Management.