OPM and FCIP

The National Treasury Employees Union case against the Office of Personnel Management seeking to eliminate the Federal Career Intern Program is still pending. But OPM, under Acting Director Kathie Ann Whipple, issued a memo last week telling agencies that, for now, if they decide to pass over service-disabled veterans for jobs they're filling with federal career interns, they have to follow pass-over procedures and send a request to do so to OPM. And the memo notes that, with regard to the Gingery decision, "OPM is still analyzing the decision and considering options." I don't know that it's a clear signal either way that the Obama administration has made up its mind either way whether to end the program. But it seems like a sign that they're thinking about it.