Tag Archives: OPM

Bill Zielinski, an information technology category executive at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, will serve as acting assistant commissioner for GSA’s IT category starting October, FCW reported Thursday. He will replace Kay Ely, who is set to leave GSA by the end of September to take a 90-day …

Kay Ely, assistant commissioner for information technology at the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service, is set to leave the agency by Sept. 30 to take a 90-day assignment related to the GSA-Office of Personnel Management merger, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Ely will initially work with a task force in …

The General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management have reduced the contract access fee of the Human Capital and Training Solutions initiative by at least 60 percent. GSA Administrator Emily Murphy said in a statement published Wednesday the move to lower CAF from 2 percent to 0.75 percent …

Charles Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, has said the Defense Department is more likely to integrate NBIB into its operations than splitting the workload of the bureau that operates under the Office of Personnel Management, FCW reported Tuesday. “The truth is that split would’ve been debilitating, distracting …

David Vargas, formerly director of the human resources line of business at the Office of Personnel Management, has joined the General Services Administration as head of the new service management office, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Vargas “will oversee the launch of our new service management office, which is being established to …

The U.S. government has begun to adopt the blockchain technology in an effort to transform its operations and service delivery processes as well as secure public data, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. Some of the federal agencies that have started to explore the use of the distributed ledger technology include the …

The Office of Personnel Management’s Office of the Chief Information Officer will hold its second quarterly Industry Outreach Day at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday.

Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff Pon and Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration, testified Thursday before a Senate subcommittee about the White House’s proposed government restructuring plan to move some of OPM’s core functions into GSA, FCW reported Thursday. Murphy told lawmakers that integrating some of OPM’s …

Grant Schneider, acting federal chief information security officer, has been named permanent federal CISO at the Office of Management and Budget, Nextgov reported Thursday. He will serve as chairman of the CISO Council, oversee the executive branch’s cyber strategy and will continue to serve as senior director for cyber security at …

The Office of Management and Budget has proposed the establishment of a public-private partnership center to help federal agencies improve the delivery of services to citizens and oversight of public resources as part of a governmentwide reorganization plan, Government Executive reported Thursday. The report “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st …