2024 Presidential Rank Awards honor work of career federal executives
Career federal leaders working across 30 different federal agencies are receiving special recognition for their dedication to public service. President Joe Biden named 236 winners of the 2024...
View ArticleAfter 2% federal pay raise for 2025, pay compression spreads a little further
President Joe Biden opted for a 2% average federal pay raise for civilian employees in 2025, but some employees in the higher grades and steps of the General Schedule will see an even smaller pay...
View ArticleWhat happens when MLK Day and Inauguration Day fall on the same day?
For federal employees near Washington, D.C., the upcoming Inauguration Day will look a little different, since the Jan. 20 federal holiday coincides with another federal holiday: Martin Luther King Jr....
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As DDM, Miller strove to balance needs of people, mission
During his tenure as the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget over the last four years, Jason Miller faced no bigger issue than how to manage the return to office of...
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Vought bobs, weaves way through OMB nomination hearing
If Russell Vought’s confirmation hearing to run the Office of Management and Budget was a boxing match, the judges would’ve given him the win on points. Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and...
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Hiring reform, SES accountability to get more scrutiny
By late Spring, agencies will get a new plan to improve their hiring process with an ultimate goal of bringing down the time to hire to 80 days. President Donald Trump’s executive order signed...
View ArticleDoD, VA return to office memos open door to more questions
The clock is ticking for Defense and Veterans Affairs department employees who telework or are on remote work agreements. And there’s a pretty good chance agencies will not be ready when the clock...
View ArticleAgencies given a 45-day deadline to identify Biden era SES career only positions
Agencies have 45 days to identify Senior Executive Service roles that were made career-only positions during the Biden administration. A new memo from the Office of Personnel Management directs...
View ArticleDebate about political CIOs takes on new life with OPM memo
The Office of Personnel Management is giving agencies a brighter green light to make their chief information officers political appointees. OPM is telling agencies they can reclassify these senior...
View ArticleWhy I’m leaving
I currently serve in the Senior Executive Service of one of the larger federal civilian executive branches of government. I have been working for the federal government for nearly 25 years, and...
View ArticleA Biden appointee sues to keep her job under Trump
One highly visible appointee of former president Joe Biden has filed suit to keep her job. Bureau of Prisons Director Collette Peters filed her appeal of what she calls a wrongful dismissal to the...
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Agencies tasked with opening many career SES roles to political appointments
Many career federal positions in the Senior Executive Service will soon open to the possibility of becoming political appointments, according to a memo the Trump administration published Monday. The...
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Connolly calls on OPM to reverse CIO classification change
The Trump administration’s direction to agencies to reconsider and possibly re-designate their chief information officer positions to general Senior Executive Service instead of career-reserve is...
View ArticleSES members’ adherence to President’s policies to become ‘most critical...
The Trump administration has taken steps to make adherence to the President’s policies the “most critical element” of performance reviews for federal senior executives. The Office of Personnel...
View ArticleTrump administration’s OPM eyeing career human capital leaders in new guidance
Chief human capital officers have become the latest group of federal executives to fall under the Trump administration’s microscope, as it presses forward with major, rapid overhauls of the federal...
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