Peace Corps

Peace Corps plans to start sending volunteers overseas again

The Peace Corps says it’ll start sending volunteers overseas again in mid-March after it evacuated them from posts around the world two years ago due to…

Workforce

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Bill to strengthen IG independence seeks to correct ‘unconscionable’ long-term vacancies

Agency Oversight

In a half century in and out of the Peace Corps, she’s done it all

Workforce

AP/Carolyn Kaster

Senate Democrats ask OPM for more agency guidance

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, volunteers of U.S. Peace Corps wearing Ukrainian national costumes attend a ceremony as they swear an oath of allegiance in Kiev, Ukraine. The Peace Corps is telling its volunteers around the world that it is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers in light of the spread of the new coronavirus, its director says in an open letter to volunteers posted Sunday, March 15, 2020, on its website. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Peace Corps volunteers sent home early due to pandemic will get financial aid from agency

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo the Dome of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument are visible as a lone woman runs along the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington. The nation's capital, like most of the nation itself, is largely shuttered. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Congress trying to figure out operating in midst of coronavirus pandemic

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this May 31, 2009 pool-file photo reviewed by the U.S. military and shot through a window, a guard wearing a protective face mask speaks with a detainee through a fence as another paces inside the exercise yard at Camp five detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The Obama Administration’s struggling crusade to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is mired in state and federal politics, and frustrated White House and Pentagon officials are blaming each other for the slow progress releasing approved detainees and finding a new prison to house the remainder. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)

Anyone on DoD property will need to wear a mask

Federal Newscast

The secret to managing through shutdowns, relocations and retirements

Workforce

CFC hoping for bounce-back year after tough 2018

Workforce

Amid government shutdown, commission wants to make public service popular again

Workforce

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2016, file photo, a guest looks at the Touch Bar on a MacBook computer shown in a demo room following the announcement of new products at Apple headquarters, in Cupertino, Calif. Apple is opening a new training camp designed to address the technology industry's scarcity of women in executive and computer programming jobs. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

National Science Foundation seeks to ‘lower the barriers’ to reskilling federal workforce

Workforce

Census director nominee sees ‘confidence’ in cybersecurity preparations

Steven Dillingham, the Trump administration’s pick to head up the Census Bureau, just 18 months out from the 2020 decennial count, faces the challenge…

Cybersecurity

New Peace Corps director Jody Olsen most enjoys seeing ‘people change’

The organization’s 20th director started her service as a volunteer in Tunisia in the 1960s and said she hopes it can continue its mission while maintaining…

Federal Drive

Commission hopes national conversation sparks public interest in military, public service

Defense

The National Commission on Military, National and Public Service launched its two-year study, which will gather public feedback on the military’s selection service and other civilian volunteer programs. Commissioners hope these conversations will renew the public’s interest in serving in national service.