As the Defense Department looks to buy more services, it s going to need to come up with action plans to better account for spending in future years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.
By Natalie Alms
Kiran Ahuja from her days as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
President Joe Biden will nominate former Obama administration official Kiran Ahuja to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Ahuja led the Biden transition team on OPM and she s an agency veteran. She served as OPM s chief of staff 2015 to 2017. She also served as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Obama White House. As part of that work, she led efforts to increase access to federal services for underserved communities of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security announced several senior appointments on Monday.
Nitin Natarajan is the agency s new deputy director.
Eric Goldstein will serve as CISA s executive assistant director for cybersecurity.
Dr. David Mussington was tapped to serve as executive assistant director for infrastructure security. Goldstein was a member of the agency review team that managed the CISA transition for the Biden administration and served at CISA s predecessor agency, the National Protection and Programs Directorate, from 2013 to 2017.
Neera Tanden s bid to head the
Office of Management and Budget is in doubt as lawmakers announced their plans to vote no if the nomination reaches the Senate floor. Sen.
By Natalie Alms
Everett Kelley receives an award at the annual National Action Network Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, Jan. 2019. (Photo courtesy: AFGE)
The largest federal employee union is pressing for some legislative wins with Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and in control of the White House.
The top priority is ensuring safe working conditions during the pandemic and the provision of COVID-19 paid sick leave benefits for feds, said American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley during a Sunday press call. But the union also has a long list of other priorities. We must operate as if two years is our window of opportunity, he said during a plenary session held as part of the union s annual legislative and grassroots mobilization conference.