About 75,000 Federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” offer, a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Feb. 6 issued a call to government agencies to provide data to OPM by March 7 on current agency employee performance management plans and policies that will inform new rules about getting rid of underperforming workers, and further President Donald Trump’s aim to reshape the Federal workforce. […]

A Federal judge in Massachusetts placed the Trump Administration’s “deferred resignation” offer to Federal employees on hold until Monday, according to confirmation from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) obtained by MeriTalk. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is claiming that its email system used to contact all Federal government employees does not pose a privacy risk, according to a Wednesday court filing. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued additional guidance to Federal agencies on Wednesday regarding President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at slashing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) programs. […]

The Trump administration is instructing Federal government agencies to remove the designation of “career reserved” roles for agency chief information officers (CIOs) – a move that the administration says recognizes that agency tech chiefs have “policy-determining capabilities across a range of controversial political topics.”  […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is advising Federal agencies to move forward with their plans to return to in-person work, despite current telework-related contracts with Federal employee unions. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) was granted a “blanket exemption” from the civilian hiring freeze mandated by President Donald Trump, allowing “normal hiring actions and onboarding” to continue for the department’s civilian workforce, according to a U.S. Air Force memorandum obtained by MeriTalk. […]

Trump administration officials have directed senior staff members at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to make plans to cut 70 percent of the agency’s workforce. […]

The Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM)’s January 28 memo offering most Federal government employees the opportunity to take part in a “deferred resignation” program features as a prominent hook the right to continue pandemic-era remote working arrangements until employees leave the government. […]

Chief data officers (CDOs) at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said they are modernizing their agencies’ use of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued marching orders on Jan. 27 for Federal agencies to comb through their workforce rolls and submit to OPM by April 20 preliminary lists of employees who they want to designate under the new “Schedule Policy/Career” classification that will make them easier to replace. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has tapped Greg Hogan to serve as its new chief information officer (CIO), an agency spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is directing agencies to revise their telework policies and start arrangements for Federal employees to work onsite full-time by the end of the day tomorrow.  […]

The Trump administration is moving to put on administrative leave all Federal employees who have been working in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility offices since Election Day, with a deadline for 5 p.m. today for layoffs to get underway. […]

Melvin Brown II has been replaced as chief information officer (CIO) of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), just a week after starting the new role and on the second day of the Trump administration, according to his LinkedIn. […]

Before the Trump administration takes over next week, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Rob Shriver took the time on Tuesday afternoon to emphasize that “Schedule F is bad policy.” […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has named Melvin Brown permanent chief information officer (CIO) after serving as deputy CIO for the past four years. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded Bering Straits Professional Services a $149 million contract to support the human resources agency’s IT modernization efforts.  […]

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) CIO Guy Cavallo said today that he will retire from Federal government service on Jan. 13 and plans to land back in the private sector later this year. […]

Government officials at both the Federal and state levels are working on a wide range of new AI use cases with focuses on administrative efficiency and improving decision-making, several Federal and city officials said this week.    […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) said today it has awarded $18.3 million to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to help fund the agency’s ongoing push to modernize the technology underlying the Federal retirement systems that OPM administers. […]

As the Biden-Harris administration comes to a close, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is touting two recently released tools that are making it easier for early career talent to find a job within the Federal government. […]

As cyber threats continue to grow in complexity and scale, artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a critical tool for enhancing security, efficiency, and accuracy across Federal agencies, according to Federal cybersecurity experts. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) received a mostly positive Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) audit from its Office of the Inspector General (OIG) this year, but the agency still needs to fill some security gaps – such as improving its IT security training program. […]

Two new talent programs announced on Wednesday by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will help Federal agencies to better identify Federal interns and recent graduates, continuing the government’s efforts to recruit early career talent.  […]

Federal employees are more engaged and satisfied in their jobs in 2024, with employee engagement hitting an all-time high this year, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) 2024 OPM Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has extended the direct hiring authority for STEM and cybersecurity positions through 2028, the agency announced in a memo on Monday. […]

Federal employees reported high satisfaction with available benefit programs according to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) 2023 OPM Federal Employee Benefits Survey (FEBS) released by OPM on Sept. 18.  […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has tapped Taka Ariga to serve as the agency’s chief data officer (CDO) – his first day was Monday. […]