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Federal agencies snapped to respond Tuesday to the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, the first major natural disaster to strike since sequester-related budget cuts took effect in March.
Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget's management team, following the departure of OMB's No. 2 official this month.
Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas Shulman said he was 'dismayed and saddened' by revelations that his agency targeted conservative political groups for extra scrutiny, and said he had been unaware of it.
The inspector general for the General Services Administration expects to lose out on more than a quarter-billion dollars in potential government savings next year, as the sequester-related budget cuts force the agency to scale back on efforts to uncover w
Federal agencies have closed 420 data centers and aim to shutter more than 500 others by December 2015, but plans to save billions of dollars through the consolidation effort so far appear to be falling short.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers last week he expects the sequester's budget cuts will force him to furlough agents in fiscal 2014.
The IRS inspector general blamed 'ineffective management' for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.
The federal courts are seeking an additional $73 million in emergency funds for this year to prevent layoffs and other repercussions from sequester-related budget cuts.
The sequester will cost the Forest Service about 500 firefighters and 50 fire engines this year, even as the agency expects another rough season of drought-fueled wildfires.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he's opened a criminal inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups.
Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles — and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions — hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department’s inspector general warned Thursday.
Five companies have prequalified to build and maintain geothermal energy projects for the Defense Department, under the first phase of a $7 billion Army contract.
For years, the Pentagon has been working to move funding from temporary war spending accounts into the base budget, particularly for brick-and-mortar efforts that were borne out of a decade of counterinsurgency fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq — and will
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.
Until last year, the Office of Personnel Management's program to process federal employee retirements was a sluggish, bureaucratic morass that left new retirees waiting six months to a year for their full pensions.
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.
Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.
The Obama administration is proposing a significant budget cut next year for information technology modernization and new initiatives, which include cloud computing and mobile technology programs.
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.
Nine hundred Housing and Urban Development Department employees may have to move or change jobs under a restructuring that will close 16 of 80 field offices by this fall.
How much frustration will build up in the skies before politicians on the ground in Washington do something about flight delays?
Air travelers were keeping a close eye on airport departure boards Monday, hoping to get a sense of whether the threat of crushing delays from sequester-related budget cuts is real or just political bluster.
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.
Federal judiciary leaders plan to seek more than $51 million in extra fiscal 2013 funding to offset the impact of sequester-related budget cuts on defender services, court security and other areas.
The Federal Aviation Administration is scaling back the amount of savings it expects from closing 149 towers at small airports around the country.
Federal judiciary leaders plan to seek more than $51 million in extra fiscal 2013 funding to offset the impact of sequester-related budget cuts on defender services, court security and other areas.
The White House’s 2014 budget request proposes a multibillion-dollar Defense Department initiative to reduce energy and fuel use.
The president’s budget proposes nearly $2 billion in additional information technology funding for 2014, which would raise overall IT spending to $82 billion.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to shut down most agency operations for four mandatory furlough days in July and August in response to sequester-related budget cuts, according to the agency’s acting chief.
Commenting on how the White House’s proposed 2014 budget treats federal pay and benefits, William Dougan, head of the National Federation of Federal Employees, said: “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
The Defense Department would cut civilian staffs by about 12,200 in fiscal 2014 under the administration’s proposed budget, kicking off an expected five-year cycle of significant staffing cuts.
Senior Office of Personnel Management officials steered no-bid consulting work to a prominent human relations expert, raising broader concerns about procurement practices in the agency’s human resources services division, according to a new report by the agency’s watchdog.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s 2014 Pentagon budget request ignores sequestration. Experts call it a purely political document. It’s going nowhere — and that’s the plan.
Highlights of major agencies’ 2014 budget requests. Discretionary spending figures — from Office of Management and Budget budget summary tables — compare the 2014 budget requests with 2012 actual budgets, which more closely reflect agencies’ actual funding in 2013 under the continuing resolution than do the 2013 budget requests.
President Obama’s budget plan for 2014 proposes increasing the retirement contributions for federal employees hired before 2013 by 1.2 percentage points, phased in over three years, as part of his fiscal 2014 budget.
The Defense Department is planning to cut its civilian workforce by about 5 to 6 percent — between 40,000 and 50,000 positions — by the end of 2018, Defense Comptroller Robert Hale said Wednesday.
The president’s 2014 budget would increase federal information technology spending by 1.7 percent, despite initiatives geared toward reducing IT spending.
The White House is seeking more than $2.1 billion in 2014 for new construction, renovations and property purchases for non-Defense agencies.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s call last week to overhaul the military structure focused on three primary Pentagon cost drivers: acquisition, personnel and overhead.
More than 10,000 federal employees submitted retirement claims in March — more than twice as many as the government expected.
The Defense Department should immediately begin planning for civilian employee layoffs in preparation for a long-term spending squeeze, a defense analyst said Friday.
The White House on Wednesday will propose $35 billion in cuts to federal retirement benefits and reductions in retirees’ future pension increases as part of the fiscal 2014 budget.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has called for a sweeping overhaul of the military structure, similar to major organizational changes made under the 1980s Goldwater-Nichols Act.
The Defense Department will consider layoffs and other long-term downsizing options if Congress doesn’t undo plans for sequesters in 2014 and beyond, according to Comptroller Robert Hale.
President Obama will likely call for a 1 percent federal pay raise in his fiscal 2014 budget request set for release next week, according to unions and other federal employee advocates.
The Defense Department and at least a handful of other agencies are rolling back or rethinking plans for civilian employee furloughs in the wake of a newly passed spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2013.
Persistent drought and an infestation of tree-killing insects have left broad swaths of the country vulnerable to unusually fierce wildfires for the second straight year just as the U.S. Forest Service is dealing with cuts in its fire-fighting budget.
Key congressional Republicans are calling a comprehensive White House deficit-reduction plan a solid first step toward striking the kind of bipartisan deal that would substantially lessen defense spending cuts.
