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  1. In a listserv email Wednesday, an Office of Personnel Management said few benefit officers from around the federal government would have been able to attend the annual conference due to a lack of funds. Staff

    OPM cancels benefits conference

    Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year's benefits conference.

    • May. 13, 2013

  2. Public service: an opportunity, not a burden

    I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

    • May. 12, 2013
  3. President Obama is seen with Tom Perez on March 18 at the White House. Jewel Samad / AFP

    Obama faces battle over Labor secretary nominee

    President Obama faces a potentially big Senate battle over his nominee for labor secretary, Thomas Perez.

    • May. 9, 2013
  4. A Border Patrol agent guards a suspect caught along the Rio Grande River in Texas. John Moore/Getty Images

    Federal employees focus on mission in face of adversity

    Federal Times invited readers to reflect on the state of public service and on what, if anything, should be done to improve it. Following are excerpts.

    • May. 6, 2013

  5. Sequester poses public service challenges

    More than 35 years ago, as a newly minted law school graduate, I moved from my hometown of New York City to Washington to take a job at the Justice Department.

    • May. 5, 2013
  6. Jeff Zients has stepped down as the No. 2 official at the Office of Management and Budget. He had been OMB deputy director for management since June 2009 and served as the agency's acting chief since January 2012. Thomas Brown / Staff

    Zients steps down as OMB deputy director

    Jeff Zients has stepped down as the No. 2 official at the Office of Management and Budget. He had been OMB deputy director for management since June 2009 and served as the agency's acting chief since January 2012.

    • May. 3, 2013

  7. Government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week

    Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.

    • May. 3, 2013

  8. Thomas Wheeler to be nominated to head FCC

    President Obama plans to nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission, White House officials said.

    • May. 1, 2013
  9. NASA has been ranked the most innovative large agency for three consecutive years in an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service. Pictured: NASA employees celebrate as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover on Aug. 5. Brian van der Brug/Getty Images, pool

    Feds feel less empowered to innovate, survey finds

    Most federal employees look for ways to be innovative and do their jobs better, but an increasing number of feds don't feel empowered to do that, according to a new analysis by the Partnership for Public Service.

    • Apr. 29, 2013
  10. With the Federal Aviation Administration attributing about 1,000 daily flight delays to air traffic controller furloughs, Congress rushed through a bill late last week to let the agency tap other funding sources to put employees back to work, but many observers see little chance of fully rolling back the sequester and the controversy is not going away. AFP

    A rush to soften impact of sequester

    With the Federal Aviation Administration attributing about 1,000 daily flight delays to air traffic controller furloughs, Congress rushed through a bill late last week to let the agency tap other funding sources to put employees back to work.

    • Apr. 28, 2013
  11. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives officers confer near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 16, where two explosions struck the Boston Marathon. The explosives used in the bombings were likely homemade devices full of nails and metal fragments designed to cause widespread injury, according to initial reports. A day after an attack that left three dead and more than 170 wounded, the FBI and Boston police declined to reveal details of their probe, or whether they suspected the assault was linked to foreign or domestic extremists. Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images

    Boston bombing renews focus on gaps in information-sharing

    More than a decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks exposed potentially lethal holes in law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ ability to share information, the Boston Marathon bombings are reviving questions about whether gaps persist, despite an enormous investment of money and manpower to close them.

    • Apr. 26, 2013
  12. A cleanup crew works at a Port Fourchon, La., beach after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A federal website with thousands of data sets on the cleanup received millions of visitors on its first day. That achievement was among those honoroed by Distinguished Rank Awards. Getty Images

    Senior Executives Association fetes Rank Award winners

    The Senior Executives Association on Thursday honored 46 executive and professional recipients of Distinguished Rank Awards who collectively have saved the government more than $94 billion.

    • Apr. 26, 2013

  13. Official: Sequester to reduce FDA food inspections

    The Food and Drug Administration will reduce food safety inspections by about 18 percent because of federal budget cuts, which could impact the millions of people at risk of food borne illness, FDA officials cautioned Wednesday.

    • Apr. 25, 2013
  14. Sylvia M. Burwell was confirmed April 24 to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Thomas Brown / Federal Times

    Senate confirms Burwell to lead OMB

    Sylvia Burwell won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget.

    • Apr. 24, 2013

  15. IRS employees to get 5 to 7 furlough days

    IRS employees face between five and seven furlough days between May and September because of sequester-related budget cuts, according to an email from acting Commissioner Steve Miller.

    • Apr. 22, 2013
  16. A Boston police officer stands guard at a memorial site at Boylston and Arlington streets along the course of the Boston Marathon on April 16, a few blocks from where two explosions struck near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15. The Boston Federal Executive Board wants to set up a special one-time charity drive to allow federal employees to donate to victims of Monday's marathon bombing and their families. AFP

    Boston FEB to propose charity drive for marathon bombing victims

    The Boston Federal Executive Board wants to set up a special one-time charity drive to allow federal employees to donate to victims of Monday’s marathon bombing and their families.

    • Apr. 17, 2013
  17. President Obama leaves the Oval Office on April 8 in Washington, D.C. Obama signed legislation Monday that blocks the online posting of personal financial-disclosure statements of thousands of federal executives. Alex Wong / Getty Images

    Obama signs law to halt online posting of executives’ financial forms

    President Obama signed legislation Monday that blocks the online posting of personal financial-disclosure statements of thousands of federal executives.

    • Apr. 15, 2013
  18. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Thursday announced he will step down when his four-year term expires at the end of this week. Office of Personnel Management

    OPM chief Berry stepping down this week

    Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Thursday announced he will step down when his four-year term expires at the end of this week.

    • Apr. 11, 2013

  19. Executives are happier than rank-and-file, report finds

    The government’s top executives are far happier with their jobs and pay than rank-and-file employees, according to a report released Wednesday.

    • Apr. 10, 2013
  20. Sylvia M. Burwell, President Obama's nominee for federal budget chief received a half-million-dollar signing bonus from her last job as president of Walmart's charitable arm, according a recent financial disclosure form. Thomas Brown / Staff

    OMB nominee received $500K signing bonus as head of Walmart Foundation

    President Obama’s nominee for federal budget chief received a half-million-dollar signing bonus from her last job as president of Walmart’s charitable arm, according a recent financial disclosure form.

    • Apr. 9, 2013
  21. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the intelligence community may have to furlough employees, though no decision has been made. Intelligence officials are still studying the continuing resolution Congress passed last month to see whether furloughs are necessary Karen Bleier / AFP via Getty Images

    Sequester will weaken intel capabilities, Clapper says

    The nation’s top spymaster fears sequester budget cuts could have an “insidious” effect on the nation’s intelligence collecting and processing.

    • Apr. 8, 2013
  22. SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills recently reflected on her time with the administration. Thomas Brown / Staff

    SBA chief sees capital in gains

    As head of the Small Business Administration, Karen Mills helped guarantee $106 billion in lending to more than 193,000 small businesses, including two record years of more than $30 billion each. She’s the first SBA administrator since the Clinton years to have a Cabinet-level position. She’ll step down once her successor is chosen.

    • Apr. 3, 2013
  23. Budget cuts, staffing reductions and an ongoing pay freeze have pushed federal employees' satisfaction with their leadership to an all-time low, according to a new report.

    Feds give their leadership lowest scores

    Budget cuts, staffing reductions and an ongoing pay freeze have pushed federal employees’ satisfaction with their leadership to an all-time low, according to a new report by the Partnership for Public Service.

    • Apr. 3, 2013

  24. Feds rank worst bosses, best bosses

    One Internal Revenue Service employee says her boss's attitude and management style have given her anxiety attacks and caused morale to drop across her office.

    • Mar. 31, 2013

  25. Obama appoints 1st female head of Secret Service

    WASHINGTON — President Obama named Julia Pierson, a longtime U.S. Secret Service agent, on Tuesday as the first female director of the agency, a pick that could mark a cultural shift for an agency whose reputation was tarnished by last year’s prostitution scandal.

    • Mar. 27, 2013

  26. Risks remain high at bioterror labs, agencies say

    The United States is at increased risk for accidents at laboratories conducting research on potential bioterror germs, such as anthrax, because federal officials have failed to develop national standards for lab design, construction and operation, according to a report to be released Monday by the Government Accountability Office. The GAO called for the standards more than three years ago.

    • Mar. 25, 2013

  27. NASA probing Chinese access to sensitive data

    Visitors from China and several other suspect countries will be denied access to NASA facilities until the agency finishes investigating its cybersecurity measures involving foreign nationals, NASA’s administrator told congressional lawmakers Tuesday.

    • Mar. 21, 2013

  28. Officials sound the alarm over retention, recruitment

    The furloughs, pay freezes, possible retirement benefit cuts and other dire news for federal employees threaten to shatter the government’s recruitment and retention efforts, Obama administration officials and union leaders said Wednesday.

    • Mar. 20, 2013

  29. Commerce chief leaving for University of Wisconsin post

    President Obama’s acting Commerce secretary is heading to the University of Wisconsin.

    • Mar. 19, 2013
  30. Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez (right), a Hispanic American, speaks March 18 after being nominated as the next secretary of labor by President Obama during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Perez would replace Hilda Solis, who resigned the Labor Department's top position in January. Jewel Samad / AFP

    Obama picks Perez to head Labor Department

    WASHINGTON—President Obama has picked the Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer, Thomas Perez, to be his next Labor secretary.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
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