Southern border operations cost DoD at least $2.6 billion
The Defense Department has spent at least $2.6 billion on southern border operations since the beginning of fiscal 2025. It used multiple funding mechanisms to support the mission, including using mon...
14 Jul 5min
Agencies get help for their own Federal Employee Viewpoint Surveys
Agencies have new resources to help them run their own versions of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey this year. A playbook from the Office of Personnel Management explains how agencies can best pl...
13 Jul 7min
Federal retirement processing times are slowing down
Federal retirement processing times are slowing down. During June, it took OPM an average of 108 days to process a retirement claim, according to the agency’s latest data release. Processing times for...
10 Jul 7min
Skills-based federal hiring gets another push from Congress
A move toward skills-based federal hiring is getting another push from Congress. A new bipartisan bill would push agencies to ease college degree requirements for many federal jobs. Agencies would hav...
9 Jul 7min
Army replaces height and weight tables for body composition
The Army is replacing its long-criticized height-and-weight tables and tape test with a waist-to-height ratio to measure body composition. The change follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's push for ...
8 Jul 8min
There’s a new leader at NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a new leader. Arvind Raman was sworn is as the fifth undersecretary of commerce for standards and technology on June 30th. He was confirmed by th...
7 Jul 8min
Trump administration looks to tweak paid administrative leave rules
The Trump administration is looking to tweak the rules for federal employees’ paid administrative leave. Recent proposed regulations from the Office of Personnel Management would give agencies more le...
6 Jul 6min
Thrift Savings Plan fund see growth in June
The good news about your Thrift Savings Plan for June, only two funds saw month over month drops. As for the other funds, 13 of 14 experienced minimal growth of less than one percent from May to June....
2 Jul 7min
