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Dale Bell — Dale Bell is the deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Grants at the Health and Human Services Department and a new inductee of the National Academy of Public Administration

Management

Granter of billions joins the elite at a DC academy

Dale Bell is not a venture capitalist or a construction financier. But he's a new inductee of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Management

NAPA ‘playbook’ outlines 6 strategies to improve federal recruitment, retention

Hiring/Retention

With recent federal hiring changes, agencies see options to reduce burdens on HR staff

Workforce

One of the most prominent advocates for good government retires

Workforce

Partnership for Public Service charts course for civil service reform, rejects Schedule F

SES

Amid political leadership vacancies, calls for SES reform continue to rise

Pay

Agencies would have an easier time approving pay bonuses under OPM proposal

ADA, Return to Office

Workforce

The administration's DEI leader brings experience from work at the state level

Technology modernization fund

Budget

What federal largess looks like from the perspective of a state-level budget official

U.S. Air Force basic military training trainees are issued

personal computers during in-processing as part of a pilot test under a

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement partnership at Joint Base San

Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Dec. 11, 2019. The computers replace all hard copy

textbooks BMT trainees currently use with the intent to help BMT assess

learning outcomes, value and return on investment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarayuth Pinthong)

Air Force

This Air Force technologist has helped spread the internet everywhere

Management

A long-serving career executive has kept the proverbial trains running

Federal Workforce

Commentary

Today’s job seekers want things our current system cannot provide

payroll tax

Workforce

650,000 federal paychecks at risk, as IT, workforce challenges threaten National Finance Center

FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. Congressional auditors say about 30 million people will have to come up with more money to pay their taxes next year because their employers withheld too little from their paychecks under government tables keyed to the new tax law. New tax withholding tables for employers were put together by the government early 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Agency Oversight

This problem could cut off federal paychecks as surely as a shutdown

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Tom Temin Commentary

This agency could stop your paycheck cold

management workforce

Workforce

Divide over Schedule F reveals deeper need for federal workforce reform, Partnership says

Election 2022 Arizona Voting

Congress

What a great time to be a member of the Election Assistance Commission

National Guard personnel under Title 32 duty status, in which the federal government funds 100% of the cost for the troops. Over 28,000 activated National Guard troops are helping state and local governments with: 🔹 Logistical support in warehouses to support food distribution 🔹 Medical screening and testing 🔹 Supporting correctional facilities Learn more about this and other types of federal support for COVID-19 response:

Workforce

Meet the guy who makes sure FEMA arrives at a disaster fully prepared

modernizing congress

Congress

An influential Congressional staffer is now a NAPA fellow

Agency Oversight

Meet the legislative branch diversity officer who's the latest NAPA fellow

A page holds copies of the Inflation Reduction Act, inside an elevator inside the Capitol, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Management

A program to foster intergovernmental cooperation points to some one-year accomplishments

Agency Oversight

The federal government knows when people are born, but not always when they die

Management

How agencies can be more agile in the rules-driven business of rule-making

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