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Kellie Lunney
Senior Correspondent
Kellie Lunney covers federal pay and benefits issues, the budget process and financial management. After starting her career in journalism at Government Executive in 2000, she returned in 2008 after four years at sister publication National Journal writing profiles of influential Washingtonians. In 2006, she received a fellowship at the Ohio State University through the Kiplinger Public Affairs in Journalism program, where she worked on a project that looked at rebuilding affordable housing in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, NPR and Feature Story News, where she participated in a weekly radio roundtable on the 2008 presidential campaign. In the late 1990s, she worked at the Housing and Urban Development Department as a career employee. She is a graduate of Colgate University.
GSA offers employees high-tech office space
October 3, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Future office spaces for federal employees may one day rival the comforts of home, thanks to a new General Services Adminstration public-private partnership. GSA teamed up with the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International last week to develop modern work stations that enhance productivity. The partnership will focus ...
Navy set to award multibillion dollar intranet contract
October 2, 2000 klunney@govexec.com The Navy hopes to award its multibillion dollar intranet contract next week, a spokeswoman for NAVAIR said Friday. The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) contract award was slated to coincide with the start of fiscal 2001-Oct. 1-but Congress' failure to pass key spending bills for next year's budget before its ...
Security problems plague federal accounting system
October 2, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Serious computer security problems continue to plague the government's central accounting system, putting data and dollars at risk. The General Accounting Office delivered that message in a report released last week. GAO praised the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service, or FMS, for making strides in outlining security procedures and ...
Agency head debates administration policy's effect
September 28, 2000 From rising health care premium costs to recruiting strategies, a current agency head and a former Reagan official Wednesday debated over how the next administration's policies would affect federal employees. The debate, sponsored by FPMI Communications, Inc., featured Janice R. Lachance, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and ...
Agencies face hurdles in eliminating paperwork
September 27, 2000 Agencies are getting good advice on how to conduct business online, but face funding and security challenges in setting up their systems, according to a new General Accounting Office report. The report, requested by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., praises the Office of Management and Budget for providing agencies with useful ...
Senators oppose plan to lift contractor per diem cap
September 25, 2000 Lawmakers lambasted a proposal that would lift limits on federal contractors' travel and relocation expenses in a letter last week to Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew. The Sept. 18 letter from Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Russell Feingold, D-Wis., is the latest in a ...
Federal fellows to spend a year in Japan
September 22, 2000 Eight federal employees will have the opportunity to travel to Japan and work for a year at their sister agencies in the Japanese government, under a fellowship program that aims to improve Japanese-American relations. The intensive, two-year exchange program is run by the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, a nonprofit ...
Federal fellows to spend a year in Japan
September 22, 2000 Eight federal employees will have the opportunity to travel to Japan and work for a year at their sister agencies in the Japanese government, under a fellowship program that aims to improve Japanese-American relations. The intensive, two-year exchange program is run by the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, a nonprofit ...
Managers' groups concerned about EEO proposals
September 20, 2000 An interagency task force looking at ways to improve the federal equal employment opportunity complaint process continues to come under fire from groups representing federal managers. Formed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Clinton administration's National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR), the task force was created in ...
Civil servants said to play critical role in transitions
September 19, 2000 klunney@govexec.com Future political appointees would be wise to tap career employees for advice on the inner workings of government, President Clinton's former press secretary said Monday. "There are many wonderful career civil servants with institutional memory. Career employees have an important role and identifying that to the future President is ...
