Management
Exit interview: OMB’s Customer Experience guru Amira Boland
Boland was the first to take on the role of customer experience lead at the White House, and she sees great potential even beyond her departure.
Management
Agencies spell out how climate change will affect their employees and what they’ll do to protect them
The Biden administration is looking to protect federal workers and agency missions in the fact of extreme weather.
Pay & Benefits
Biden’s 2% raise more likely upon advancement of Senate defense policy bill
The Senate Armed Services Committee last week advanced its version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, endorsing a 2% average pay raise for civilian federal workers alongside a 4.5% increase for military service members.
News
Scientists argue over the origins of COVID-19 before Senate panel
Microbiology and biodefense experts continued to wrangle over whether COVID-19 emerged from a laboratory leak or was passed to humans through exposure from another animal.
Pay & Benefits
Your pre-retirement questions answered, part 2
The second in a series tackling your pressing questions.
Tech
House panel advances bill to study TSA’s embrace of digital IDs
Travelers from nine states can now use mobile driver’s licenses to verify their identities at 27 U.S. airports.
Workforce
Dems warn of agency furloughs, layoffs if spending caps are not lifted
FBI agents, meat inspectors and others could face job cuts under the current fiscal 2025 spending plan, Democrats say.
Workforce
‘Trailblazing’ federal leaders urge perseverance, authenticity to government interns
Panelists at an OPM event for interns praised federal DEI programs, which some congressional Republicans want to end.
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Workforce
Martin O’Malley is on a one-year sprint to save Social Security
Despite shaking up the culture one of Washington’s most risk-averse agencies, the former governor said his biggest task is convincing Congress to reinvest in the Social Security Administration’s administrative overhead.
Tech
GSA announces 11 new Presidential Innovation Fellows to focus on AI
The second cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows in 2024 will help agencies adopt AI while mitigating risks.
Workforce
Embracing authenticity: A call to action for federal employees for Pride Month and Juneteenth
COMMENTARY | “Being authentic isn’t just ‘speaking your truth,’ it also means paying attention to the comfort level of others and respecting our own boundaries,” writes one long-time federal employee.
Oversight
NSF’s ongoing major infrastructure project delays due to personnel, supply challenges, report says
Staffing challenges were partially at the root of delays for two of the agency’s construction facilities projects costing more than $100 million.
Management
Staffing, funding shortages forced DHS to release hundreds of ‘inadmissible’ international travelers
In many cases, those travelers never faced efforts to subsequently remove them from the country.
Tech
Senate bill mandating agency chief AI officers gets House companion
The proposal would codify several aspects of AI guidance released by the Office of Management and Budget in guidance this spring.
Oversight
Divide and conquer improper payments
COMMENTARY| Fraud prevention and detection require a different level of focus, argues one former federal CFO.
Workforce
Burnout among government workers is decreasing but still high, according to new pulse survey data
Leader of the consulting firm that sponsored the poll says the burnout rate could cause public employees to leave their jobs.
Management
In spending bill, House Republicans are ‘deeply concerned’ with DeJoy’s USPS reform plans
While typically sympathetic to the postmaster general, Republicans are suggesting he chart a different course.
Pay & Benefits
Feds are still slated for a 2% average pay raise in 2025 per House appropriations bill
The House Appropriations Committee advanced legislation Thursday that failed to override President Biden’s 2025 pay plan.
Tech
Feds saw more cyberattacks but better detection last year, FISMA report says
11 major incidents were reported by agencies in FY2023.
Tech
What it will take to make Direct File permanent
The IRS will have to grapple with expanding access and capabilities — while also convincing skeptical lawmakers to maintain funding.
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