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Roughly 85 percent of current Senior Executive Service members are eligible to retire within the next 10 years. And about half can retire within the next president's first term in office. But as the administration looks to agency career leaders to steer the upcoming presidential transition, 55 percent of GS-14s and GS-15s say they're not interested in joining the SES.
June 22, 2016 -
Senior Executive Service candidates can now submit a resume as part of their application package to the Qualification Review Board, the Office of Personnel Management said. OPM has a few suggestions for agencies to shorten the submission process for SES candidates. The guidance is the latest in a series of memos addressing the President's executive order on SES reforms.
March 14, 2016 -
Marc Groman, chief privacy officer for the Office of Management and Budget, revealed the progress made toward updating how the federal government handles privacy and civil liberties as President Barack Obama signs a new executive order.
February 09, 2016 -
Agencies have new guidance for rotating more Senior Executive Service members from the Office of Personnel Management. The rotational requirement is part of an executive order President Barack Obama signed to reform the SES.
February 01, 2016 -
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on the plan to expand the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the hiring of 200 special agents and investigators for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, as well as the investment in the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network and National Firearms Act applications.
January 21, 2016 -
Cheating and lying companies — at least in IT, professional services and the like — represent the rare birds, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
December 30, 2015 -
Yesterday, the President signed an executive order designed to strengthen the Senior Executive Service by requiring agencies to rotate more of their SES-ers to different agencies or assignments, making sure they’re not paid less than their General Schedule subordinates and refining agencies processes for onboarding SES members. Jeri Buchholz is a strategic business development adviser for FMP Consulting and a former chief human capital officer at NASA. In a column she wrote for Federal News Radio, she argues the order is a good first start, but it might also be a distraction from the real problems in the Senior Executive Service. She talked to Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about wh
December 16, 2015 -
The White House also will announce the inaugural winner of the customer service award and recipients of the Presidential Rank Awards.
December 10, 2015 -
A draft executive order, obtained by Federal News Radio, details short and long term initiatives to improve how members of the Senior Executive Service are recruited, retained and trained.
November 30, 2015 -
The increases go into effect January 2016. The executive order comes one month after the Federal Pay Agent finalized its recommendation that the President give about 102,000 federal employees locality pay raises.
November 30, 2015 -
The federal government is running your business. If you're a contractor doing work for the federal government, it might seem that way. The Professional Services Council says an influx of executive orders and legislation have placed a heavy burden on contractors to comply. Alan Chvotkin is executive vice president and counsel for the Professional Services Council. He writes about this in the October issue of PSC's Service Contractor Magazine.
October 19, 2015 -
Thanks to a new executive order, 300,000 employees of federal contractors have a new benefit coming and their employers have a new mandate to comply with. On Labor Day, President Barack Obama signed an executive order requiring their employers to offer paid sick leave. Eric Crusius, who represents government contractors at the law firm Miles & Stockbridge, offered his take on In Depth with Francis Rose as part of Industry Chatter.
September 10, 2015 -
The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program is now a permanent fixture in the federal government. President Barack Obama issued an executive order Monday grouping the PIF program under the General Services Administration with an advisory board to oversee…
August 18, 2015 -
Four associations representing federal contractors sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday saying they were fed up with executive orders and presidential memos that target their member companies. The representatives point collectively to a dozen executive orders and memos that President Barack Obama has issued since 2009, which have led to 16 new regulations so far. Alan Chvotkin is the Executive Vice President of the Professional Services Council. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain why contractors are so upset.
August 12, 2015 -
Four associations representing federal contractors sent a polite, but terse, letter to the White House Tuesday saying they’ve had enough with executive orders issued by President Barack Obama that target their member companies.
August 11, 2015