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OPM offering 300 buyouts, early outs across 14 divisions
The Office of Personnel Management wants to trim its ranks as part of a comprehensive workforce strategy. The goal is to transform the workforce to better align skills and mission needs.
Tags: workforce , OPM , buyouts , early outs ,
IG: 'Serious problems' with OPM's $2B revolving fund must be addressed
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general says he needs $6 million to address "serious problems" with the agency's $2 billion revolving fund. Patrick McFarland told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that his current budget isn't nearly enough to root out waste, fraud and abuse across the revolving fund and other areas of OPM.
Tags: technology , management , OPM , Charles Grimes , Blake Farenthold , Patrick McFarland , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Lacy Clay , HR services , HR line of business , Linda Brooks Rix , Avue Technologies ,
Lawmakers, IG expose further vulnerabilities in VA's cybersecurity
The Veterans Affairs Department has been compromised by at least eight different nation state organizations that stole data from its systems, House lawmakers and other experts say. VA officials say there always are risks, but their computer security is better than ever before.
Tags: technology , VA , Stephen Warren , Mike Coffman , Tim Huelskamp , Jerry Davis , Linda Halliday , Mike Bowman , oversight , House Veterans Affairs Committee , cybersecurity ,
Todd Grams to return to IRS as chief of staff
Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel requested Grams come back to the IRS for a third stint and leave his current role as the executive-in-charge in the Office of Management and chief financial officer at the Veterans Affairs Department.
Tags: VA , IRS , Todd Grams , people ,
VA's security shortcuts put millions of veterans' data at risk, former VA cyber official alleges
The Veterans Affairs Department denies claims that systems or data are in danger. But Jerry Davis, the former deputy assistant secretary for information security in VA's Office of Information and Technology, asserts in documents that he was bullied into signing security certifications that were deficient as a condition of his departure from VA for a new job at NASA.
Tags: exclusive , technology , cybersecurity , management , VA , Jerry Davis , Stephen Warren , Roger Baker , Mike Michaud , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Senate Veterans Affairs Committee , veterans , information security
GSA's Turco moving to VHA
Kathleen Turco is leaving GSA after 11 years, including the last three as the associate administrator of governmentwide policy. She will become the CFO at the Veterans Health Administration.
Tags: Kathleen Turco , GSA , Veterans Affairs , VHA , management ,
OMB wants 10 percent cut in 2015 budget requests
New guidance requires agencies to reduce discretionary spending requests for 2015 by reducing duplication and consolidating like programs across the government.
Tags: OMB , management , budget , Sylvia Burwell , program duplication ,
GSA proposes vendors must e-sign modifications to schedule contracts
A proposed rule in the Federal Register would require all 19,000 Federal Supply Schedule holders to get a digital certificate to use the new electronic modification system.
Tags: acquisition , industry , GSA , technology , digital certificate , E-Mod
New mobile tools give agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
On the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, the Office of Management and Budget highlighted the progress being made to make agency information and systems device-agnostic. Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel said mobile is the new default platform.
Tags: Digital Government Strategy , Steven VanRoekel , open data , mobile , apps , APIs , technology , OMB , GSA
Federal News Countdown: Sequestration, nominations, and backlogs
Today's guests on the Federal News Countdown include Jason Miller, Federal News Radio's executive editor, and Francis Rose, host of In Depth on Federal News Radio.
Tags: Federal News Countdown , Francis Rose , sequestration , Dan Tangherlini , furloughs , Steven VanRoekel
