Tag Archives: Office of Personnel Management

The Office of Personnel Management has decided to drop an electronic records project meant to help facilitate transfer of federal employees to another agency and rehiring of former personnel after retirement, Government Executive reported Wednesday.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has written a letter requesting that two government agencies increase activities towards the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 security clearance process, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.

The Office of Personnel Management has proposed a rule that allows agencies to hire former federal personnel who have acquired higher-level skillsets and appoint them without competition to roles at any grade level for which they are qualified.

Joseph Kennedy, associate director of human resource solutions at the Office of Personnel Management, retired after nearly four decades of service at OPM, Federal News Network reported Friday.

An inspector general report evaluated the Office of Personnel Management’s security program and practices in compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act and offered 47 recommendations to OPM, Nextgov reported Thursday.

The Trump administration will issue three policy directives as part of efforts to modernize the security clearance process and begin the next phase of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. The first directive is a national security presidential memorandum that directs the director of national intelligence agency and the Office of Personnel Management to update the security clearance, suitability and credentialing processes.

The General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence initiative and the Office of Personnel Management have partnered to modernize OPM’s two applications used to determine retirement benefits of federal employees, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.

Federal agency officials discussed at the American Council for Technology - Industry Advisory Council’s BOTs Forum in Washington the importance of change management and employees in the implementation of robotic process automation, Nextgov reported Thursday.

Margie Graves, federal deputy chief information officer, said the Office of Management and Budget is working with other federal agencies to find ways on how to recruit and employ more data scientists by establishing an occupational series for the profession, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

The Office of Personnel Management is using an in-house app to track federal employee performance and is working to grow the digital tool's adoption next year, Nextgov reported Friday.