Office of Personnel Management
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Quick quiz: Who was known as the terrible swift sword of the civil service? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you'll know if you were a fed in the 1980s.
July 02, 2015 The Office of Personnel Management says it's investigating the cyber breaches that allowed the loss of information of millions of federal employees. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose is former the Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He's now president of the Meyerrose Group. He tells In Depth at Francis Rose about what to expect next after OPM's cyber breaches.
July 01, 2015-
A recent petition posted to the White House's We the People website calls on the government to offer lifetime identity protection for current and former federal employees impacted by the cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. 100,000 signatures are needed by July 19, 2015, in order for the White House to respond to the request.
July 01, 2015 -
Rep. Gerry Connolly isn't so confident in OPM after the agency misspelled his name when determining if he was impacted by the cyber breach.
July 01, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management's Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing system is offline now after the agency says it found a security vulnerability. The site will be offline for four to six weeks. OPM hasn't said the discovery came out of the 30-day cyber sprint called for by federal CIO Tony Scott. Karen Evans, executive director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge and former e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, is watching the agencies respond to Tony Scott's call. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose, how the OPM breach is changing the way agencies protect their data.
June 30, 2015 The next step in the debate over the OPM cyber breaches may happen in court. The largest federal employee union is suing the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Radio Reporters Emily Kopp has on the details of the suit.
June 30, 2015Leaders of the largest federal employee union said they believe the lawsuit can compel the agency to act where numerous congressional hearings and calls for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign have not.
June 30, 2015The Office of Personnel Management shut down the database that holds security clearance information after finding a cybersecurity flaw. The decision by OPM to take the e-QIP system offline means thousands of federal employees and contractors will have to wait for their security clearances. Federal News Radio’s Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss this latest emerging OPM cybersecurity challenge.
June 30, 2015-
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June 30, 2015 -
Three hearings. Nearly seven hours of testimony. Enough frustration to fill the Potomac River. That was Katherine Archuleta’s week. The director of the Office of Personnel Management had a bullseye on her back as House…
June 30, 2015 -
A cybersecurity problem with the Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) system forces the Office of Personnel Management to shut it down for four-to-six weeks, potentially impacting thousands of current and prospective federal workers and contractors trying to get security clearances.
June 29, 2015 -
Similar to the Office of Personnel Management, agencies are struggling to move off of previous generations of technology. Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said the government is at a “critical inflection point” and needs to change its approach to buying and securing IT.
June 29, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management has extended credit monitoring services to just a fraction of the victims of the recent breaches on its personnel databases. Many more — including federal employees' family members and contractors — are wondering if and when they'll be offered the same treatment.
June 26, 2015 -
Seventeen Republican House members joined Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Friday in calling for the removal Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta and OPM CIO Donna Seymour.
June 26, 2015 -
OPM’s data breach, which has spawned its own hashtag, is one of those drip-drip stories in which details come out serially, although not all that clearly.
June 26, 2015