Office of Personnel Management

  • GAO says OPM does not have a good plan for modernizing federal retirement planning system.

    April 23, 2009
  • The Office of Personnel Management is far behind in bringing the RetireEZ program up to date. That’s according to a report by the Government Accountability Office, which says that for the past twenty years OPM…

    April 23, 2009
  • One of our local lawmakers wants to change things for the better for federal workers. A huge piece of legislation has just passed the House of Representatives and will dramatically change the current Federal Employee…

    April 02, 2009
  • John Berry is one step closer to becoming the director of the Office of Personnel Management. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved his nomination to head OPM by a unanimous voice…

    April 01, 2009
  • What Congress is doing to keep feds off the roads and on the cyberhighways.

    March 30, 2009
  • A cool afternoon in the hotseat for the next man tapped to run the Office of Personnel Management.

    March 27, 2009
  • John Salamone, the former Executive Director of the federal Chief Human Capital Officer Council at OPM has a new job.

    February 25, 2009
  • The Officer of Personnel Management terminated its $290 million, 10-year contract with Hewitt Associates to develop the recalculation engine for OPM\'s \"RetireEZ\" program. Now, the two sides have settled their dispute.

    February 09, 2009
  • Kay Ely Associate Director, Human Resources Products & Services Division February 2nd and 4th, 2009

    February 02, 2009
  • For the second time since July 2007, the federal government’s jobs site, USAjobs.gov, has been hacked. The Office of Personnel Management reported yesterday that the back end database run by Monster Worldwide has been illegally…

    January 27, 2009
  • President Barack Obama has announced the appointment of Kathie Ann Whipple as the Acting Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to an OPM press release. Prior to her appointment, Whipple was…

    January 23, 2009
  • The Defense Department and the Office of Personnel Management issued a final rule today giving more flexibility to the National Security Personnel System more flexibility in how employees are recruited and hired. OPM and DoD…

    January 16, 2009
  • Beautician, coal handling and glass blowing are among the 39 occupational series that no longer have a place in the federal workforce system. The Office of Personnel Management cancelled these series that have on average…

    January 15, 2009
  • Agencies must report on their use of student loan repayment program by March 31. The Office of Personnel Management wants the data for calendar year 2008 as well as the first quarter of fiscal year…

    January 15, 2009
  • We’re still awaiting the official announcement of National Zoo director John Berry’s nomination to run the Office of Personnel Management. But already, a key lawmaker — and Berry’s former Capitol Hill boss — took some…

    January 14, 2009