Office of Management and Budget

OMB’s new FedRAMP policy takes aim at the pain points

Drew Mykelgard, the deputy federal chief information officer at OMB, said the updated FedRAMP policy pushes for more automation, reciprocity.

Cloud Computing

Both parties already behind on presidential transition planning

Management

Post-Chevron, White House’s OIRA ‘laser focused’ on strong rulemaking

Agency Oversight

Blue-collar federal pay reform heading toward rulemaking process

Pay

FNN

FedRAMP, OMB, JAB, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)

FedRAMP’s 2 new efforts target long-time vendor frustrations

Cybersecurity

First Look

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

Congress

Cloud Exchange 2024: OMB’s Drew Myklegard on fostering mature cloud capabilities

Cloud Computing

Early-career federal job openings seeing ‘renewed and increased’ interest, OPM’s Shriver says

Hiring/Retention

FEHB, OPM, GAO costs, Stethoscope and money on wooden table representing health care, FEHB plans.

Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

Senate GOP blocks bill to expand IVF access as advocates call for better FEHB coverage

Congress

Sometimes, just rewriting a form can improve a federal program

Management

Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

The House’s financial services and general government 2025 spending bill has provisions that could impact the TSP, and push OMB and GSA for more telework…

Budget

Christophe Megevand, of Schuman Cheese, New Jersey, judges the Rhined Swiss Style Cheese category in the opening day of the World Championship Cheese Contest at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Whine, cheese make the return-to-office debate pungent

Brian Elliott, executive advisor around the future of work, said all organizations have to accept that how you measure employee performance has changed.

Federal Report

Cybersecurity IT engineers are working on protecting networks from cyber attacks from hackers on the Internet. Secure access to online privacy and personal data protection

Agency cybersecurity incidents grew by almost 10% last year

Federal Newscast

OMB’s latest FISMA report to Congress shows an increase from more than 29,000 cybersecurity incidents in 2022 to 32,000 in 2023.