Deb Haaland

Agency chief human capital officers convene for 2023 fall forum in September. Image credit: Office of Personnel Management.

3 agencies that improved their FEVS response rates this year — and how they did it

The higher the employee response rate for FEVS, the more accurate the picture that chief human capital officers get into what their workforce both wants…

Workforce

The Senate is alone on Capitol Hill this week, as the budget debate rolls on

Congress

DoD’s largest solar array opens at Fort Bragg

Defense

Photo courtesy of the Air Force

Airman First Class Brandy Fraher, who is in the final stages of her pregnancy, receives an examination from Major Noreen Burke during a unit training assembly. With restrictions, non flying pregnant Reservists may participate in all UTAs and annual tours until the 34th week of the pregnancy.

Air Force expanding maternity uniform access for airmen

Air Force

Bureau of Land Management: Two headed brontosaurus

Federal Report

Vacancies persist after BLM relocation drove experienced, diverse employees from agency, GAO finds

Workforce

Combined Federal Campaign

With donations rebounding during pandemic, CFC ready to build on last year’s successes

Workforce

Interior will move BLM headquarters, senior officials back to DC

Workforce

Practice makes perfect: firefighter Nick Vallardo trains with an engine crew as they prepare for the coming wildfire season. (Lisa Cox, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Interior, USDA to implement pay raises for federal firefighters later this month

Pay

Haaland OK’d at Interior, 1st Native American Cabinet head

People

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017 file photo, Michael Regan listens as North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announces that Regan will lead the Department of Environmental Quality in North Carolina, at the Executive Manson in Raleigh, N.C. President-elect Joe Biden has picked an experienced but not widely known state regulator, Michael Regan of North Carolina, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. Regan is head of North Carolina’s environmental agency. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP)

Biden picks Regan for EPA nominee, Haaland for interior head

People

DISA working on improvements to telework, ensuring it’s here to stay

DISA officials say the workscape will never look the same again now that DoD has seen what telework can do.

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Senator pushing to help USCIS avoid furloughs

In today’s Federal Newscast, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee is calling for another delay to employee furloughs at U.S. Citizenship…

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Spet. 18, 2019, file photo, the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington. A Trump administration proposal to roll back environmental reviews for big projects is drawing heavy objections from African American and Latino communities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EPA inspector general takes close look at reopening plans

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, some EPA employees say they feel uncomfortable returning to the office as OIG conducts a review.