Employee Policy
Want to get—or keep—security clearance? File your taxes!
Failure to file taxes reflects both a financial and rules-flaunting hubris. It can create a particularly painful hurdle for getting or keeping a cleared job.
Management
Federal Procurement Featured in New Equity Action Plans
Improving access to federal contracting vehicles and supporting small, disadvantaged businesses are key parts in the equity action plans released by agencies on April 14.
Workforce
Republican Senators Have a Plan to Fix the ‘Dysfunctional’ Federal Hiring Process
Lawmakers aim to allow agencies to bring new employees on more quickly.
Workforce
Coronavirus Roundup: The Latest on the Federal Contractors Vaccine Mandate Challenge
There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s a list of this week’s news updates and stories you may have missed.
Workforce
'If You’re Getting a W-2, You’re a Sucker'
There are many differences between the rich and the rest of us, but one of the most consequential for your taxes is whether most of your income comes from wages.
Oversight
House Panel Launches Probe Into ID.me
The Committee on Oversight and Reform wants information about the identity verification company. At least nine other federal agencies and 30 state governments also use the service, the committee says.
Tech
The Little-known Open-Source Community behind the Government’s New Environmental Justice Tool
Inside the White House’s unpublicized experiment in open governance.
Management
Kip Hawley Was An Uncommon Leader For All-Too-Common Times
The former Transportation Security Administration chief rose to the occasion -- twice -- and his is a model we need to emulate, Justin P. Oberman writes in this remembrance.
Route Fifty
How Cities are Tapping Federal Aid to Make Major Tech Upgrades
Some of the spending is geared towards adding online access to services like building permits and dog licenses. Other investments focus on areas like remote meetings and cybersecurity.
Oversight
DoD Sent a Soldier’s Remains to a Dump. Now It Must Give His Wife a Civilian Job
The new MSPB is taking a wide interpretation of what constitutes whistleblower retaliation.
Benefits
Join the Feds in Motion Challenge!
The event is aimed at helping feds stay healthy, in a myriad of ways—while raising money for the key nonprofit that helps government employees with tuition aid and emergency assistance.
Nextgov
Pentagon’s ‘Mobile’ Nuclear Microreactor Will be Demonstrated at Idaho National Lab
The potential, modern energy source could help power operations in austere environments down the line.
Pay & Benefits
Why So Many People Retire at the End of the Leave Year
It’s all about lump-sum payments.
Management
More Than 90 Agencies Release Their First-Ever Equity Plans
“For the first time Americans will see a full picture of what it looks like for the entire federal government to advance equity at once,” a senior administration official said.
Exclusive
Employee Policy
‘I am against retreat:' The Louis DeJoy ethos and the future of the Postal Service
Everything is “on the table” in this postmaster general’s USPS—except the status quo.
TSP
Bill would permit feds to save for retirement longer
The legislation calls for raising the age when mandatory distributions must begin from 72 to 75.
Tech
A Data Strategy That Benefits Veterans
VA's Chief Data Officer Kshemendra Paul talks about the agency's "secret weapon."
Nextgov
More International Quantum Partnerships Likely As U.S. Stakes Claim In Field
The U.S. is keen to get ahead in the global quantum race as national security and technological innovation intersect.
Management