Management
What does the Interior secretary do?
The Interior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development.
Pay & Benefits
The forgotten keys to agency performance: Senior Executives
COMMENTARY | To help agencies better address their performance management, it could be time to take a fresh look at senior executives, and how they are compensated.
Management
Award-winning VA leaders show the impact that federal employees can have serving the public
The presidential rank awards recognize outstanding senior government executives.
Workforce
Want to reform the federal government? Start with career execs
COMMENTARY | Career senior executives are a national asset, not tools of agency heads. It’s time to manage them as the valuable resource they are, argues one expert.
Pay & Benefits
OPM outlines pay, benefits rules for appointees resigning on Inauguration Day
The federal government’s HR agency also highlighted the ramifications of Jan. 20 coinciding with Martin Luther King Day for D.C.-area federal workers.
Management
Trump says his transition with the Biden administration is ‘not smooth’
Other reports, including from Trump's own chief of staff, indicate the process is going according to plan.
News
What to know about President Jimmy Carter lying in state at the U.S. Capitol
Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100 in his hometown of Plains, Ga., lived the longest of any U.S. president in history.
Tech
Agencies still struggle with online accessibility, GSA says
The landscape under Trump 2.0 isn’t clear, either.
Management
IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery
A test rollout of a key Postal Service initiative has not achieved any of the promised cost savings, auditors find.
Management
OPM CIO announces retirement
Guy Cavallo is the agency’s longest serving CIO in the past decade.
Management
Officials say federal employee background check system overhaul is finally on the right track
The director of the agency primarily responsible for background checks of federal employees said the change in administration likely won’t affect modernization efforts.
Pay & Benefits
Biden signs windfall elimination provision repeal into law
The Social Security Fairness Act ends both the WEP and the government pension offset, increasing the Social Security checks for more than 2 million retired public servants.
Tech
HHS’ 2024 AI use case inventory shows move toward internal chatbots
The agency reported 271 AI use cases in 2024, which it said represented a 66% increase from its reported 2023 total.
Management
As Trump mulls his FEMA pick, a political land mine awaits in Florida
The president-elect's eventual nominee to lead the emergency management agency will be caught between Florida's disaster relief and FEMA's funding problems.
Tech
Here are the tech bills the 118th Congress passed right before the new session
Some proposed tech legislation didn’t make it into law.
Workforce
See where and how Biden grew the federal workforce
Trump slashed rolls at most agencies and is pledging to do so again after Biden boosted the civil service.
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News
Johnson retains speakership, pledges to roll back 'totalitarian' administrative state
Some Republicans were concerned that a contested speaker election could delay implementation of Trump’s agenda.
Tech
Lawmakers request briefing from Treasury secretary on Chinese hack
The compromised third-party offering was a commercial remote services tool not listed in the marketplace for FedRAMP, the government’s cloud security compliance framework.
Pay & Benefits
Feds claims just 7% of available funds from OPM breach settlement, remainder returns to Treasury
Only a few thousand current federal workers, former employees and applicants cashed in from 2015 hack.
News