A long-time career fed says he's excited by the prospect of modernizing and security not only IT but also service delivery.
Performance management is a serious focus for all agencies during the next two years.
Presidents love to reform the government for a variety of reasons. But career Senior Executive Service members knows where the levers of power are, and how to get things done.
What does the Senior Executives Association think about President Donald Trump's plans to reform the civil service system? Find out when SEA President Bill Valdez joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. April 4, 2018
The Health and Human Services Department has 37 specific plans under its broad initiative to maximize talent and create a 21st century workforce.
Jeff Pon, the OPM director, said it's time to stop trying to fix the civil service in an ad-hoc manner.
Among the more ambitious provisions in the President's Management Agenda, which was released last week, is a promise to work with Congress to totally redo the federal employment system.
As the Trump administration plans major changes to the current hiring and firing systems, federal experts say government can't solve without addressing the other.
The President's Management Agenda was written or at least heavily influenced by a person or people who actually understand government and the civil service. Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal says it's a great start.
Good design is part of good customer service. So is ensuring consistency from location to location.
The biggest objective is overhaul of the federal personnel system.
In today's Federal Newscast, three years after OPM's data breach, members of the House Oversight Committee say the agency still hasn't done much to modernize its IT.
The President's Management Agenda stresses over and over the need to modernize legacy systems and deploy more digital services
The President's Management Agenda describes 14 cross-agency priority goals that the Trump administration will focus on in the coming years.
The General Services Administration has chosen five companies for the first phase of its Centers of Excellence IT modernization initiative at USDA.