Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management is updating the Senior Executive Service's three-year-old review system. Agencies must develop or administer one or more performance management systems that monitor critical elements and performance requirements of senior executives.
September 28, 2015-
The results of the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey are out from the Office of Personnel Management. Large and small agencies made incremental progress in boosting engagement and leadership scores this year.
September 28, 2015 -
The theft of more than 4 million fingerprints is a "black eye" on the face of the Office of Personnel Management, cybersecurity experts say, but it's also a reminder for all agencies and industry to consider the strength of their security access.
September 24, 2015 Federal benefits expert Tammy Flanagan and Philip Gardner with the Office of Personnel Management joins host Mike Causey to answer your questions about retirement planning. September 23, 2015
September 22, 2015-
It will take a miracle to survive the commuter nightmare caused by Pope Francis' visit to Washington, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.
September 22, 2015 -
The government's digital consultancy is applying its flexible approach to solving problems more human than technical in nature.
September 17, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management finalized the rule creating a new benefit option for the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program.
September 17, 2015 -
Agency senior leaders are finally giving cybersecurity the attention it deserves. Federal chief information officers say after a decade of warnings about the threats and risks to their data and networks, the OPM data breach brought home just exactly why cybersecurity is important. Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details of our exclusive new survey of federal CIOs, and why the OPM data breach was a cyber awakening for so many.
September 16, 2015 -
A draft version of Ashton Carter’s Force of the Future initiative seeks to transition Defense civilians out of existing civil service rules and create the underpinnings of a more “flexible” system.
September 16, 2015 Results from Federal News Radio's exclusive CIO survery.
September 15, 2015-
A new memo from Office of Personnel Management Acting Director Beth Cobert does little to ease her Inspector General's concerns with OPM's Infrastructure Improvement Project.
September 14, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management is learning how it can use performance appraisal and talent acquisition tools to find the candidates, and do it in the most efficient and accurate ways.
September 10, 2015 -
Following cyber penetrations of federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it’s launching a comprehensive governmentwide counterintelligence campaign. It wants to head off future data thefts and blunt their impact. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, the program’s first phase will focus on preventing spear phishing attacks.
September 10, 2015 -
Responding to cyber penetrations into federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Wednesday that it was launching a “comprehensive” and governmentwide counterintelligence campaign.
September 10, 2015 -
Congress returns after its August recess needing to complete 12 spending bills, deal with a looming fiscal deadline, and focus on cybersecurity and DoD issues.
September 07, 2015