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Regulation and deregulation have been a ceaseless process at least since the Carter administration.
President Donald Trump decided not to sign a new cybersecurity executive order on Jan. 31, but more specifics of the plan to secure federal and private sector networks emerge.
Cyber experts say the nation’s challenges are well known and another set of reviews, as proposed by the Trump administration, is delaying the real work to fix vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
Government contractors are in the dark about what President Donald Trump’s administration has in store, just like everyone else. But government contract lawyers from law firm Crowell and Moring are making some speculations.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Jan. 17, which sets the governance process and suitability standards for agencies and the population of federal employees and contractors. It clarifies the work that the Office of Personnel Management and National Background Investigation Bureau has already started to develop a more modern vetting system.
More power has moved to the White House and away from Congress over the past few decades. You see it in the number of executive orders and rule-making efforts originating in the White House. New research shows this can cause gyrations for the career work force with people deciding to either quit on philosophical grounds or stick around and wait out a current president. David Lewis, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, offers insight to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order authorizing a 2.1 percent pay parity for civilian employees in 2017. This order supersedes the one he signed back in November, which authorized a smaller raise for federal employees.
Agencies hired 6,000 more veterans in fiscal 2015 than in the previous year, according to a new report on veterans hiring in the federal workforce from the Office of Personnel Management. OPM says the positive numbers are the result of the Veterans Employment Initiative, which President Barack Obama began in 2009.
Federal employees with disabilities made up 14.4 percent of the workforce in fiscal 2015, an improvement over 2014's 13.6 percent. Agencies also hired more employees with disabilities, 26,466 new hires compared with 20,618 new hires in 2014. The latest report from the Office of Personnel Management on the topic shows record disability hiring among agencies over the past 35 years.
As deadlines come and go, OPM answered some frequently asked questions about an executive order, signed in 2015, that mandated reforms to the Senior Executive Service.
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.
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.
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.
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.