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Quick Hits Democrats in both chambers of Congress introduced a bill that would give healthcare professionals at the Department of Veterans Affairs working under Title 38 status the same collective bargaining opportunities as other VA employees. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are the lead sponsors of the VA Employee Fairness 5 Act of 2021, which has the backing of the American Federation of Government Employees and National Nurses United. The Office of Personnel Management has added 41 small businesses to the Human Capital and Training Solutions program, which consolidates human capital contracting across the federal government and provides agencies with human capital and training services. ....
More than a dozen lawmakers from both parties on a key House committee are seeking information from multiple cabinet secretaries and agency chiefs that the breach involving SolarWinds Orion has had on their respective organizations. The letters sent on Wednesday by the House committee on energy and commerce were sent to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Norris Cochran and Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Evelyn Remaley. The lawmakers questions include whether agencies have been compromised as well as the scope and scale of the breach, actions taken so far to investigate and respond to any compromises and a schedule to mitigate risks. ....
The National Academy of Public Administration s congressionally mandated report on Office of Personnel Management concludes that the federal human resources agency should remain independent. The report was ordered in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act at the behest of House Democrats who had thwarted the Trump administration s plan to merge OPM into the General Service Administration and wanted a top-down look at the functioning of the agency. OPM as we know it today really needs to rebuild staff capacity, encourage innovation and adopt a more data-driven, accountable and forward looking human capital management approach, NAPA president and CEO Terry Gerton said on a Wednesday call with reporters. ....
Within 24 hours of receiving its most substantial boost yet, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) awarded the Department of Labor $9.6 million to modernize its enterprise data infrastructure on Friday. The announcement of the 11 th ever TMF project came the day after the fund received a $1 billion funding boost from the American Rescue Plan. That s a dramatic expansion for the fund, which has been getting appropriations of around $25 million. The news of the Technology Modernization Fund getting a $1 billion boost from the American Rescue plan couldn t have come at a better time said David Shive, GSA Chief Information Officer and TMF Board member, in a General Services Administration announcement about the decision. ....
Quick Hits Deb Haaland, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, to lead the Department of the Interior by a vote of 51 to 40 on Monday. Haaland becomes the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary. The Interior Department employs more than 60,000 people and spends $1.4 billion on IT annually.
Stefanie Tompkins was sworn in on Monday as the 23rd director of the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency. Tompkins is returning to DARPA after a stint as vice president for research and technology transfer at Colorado School of Mines. Previously, Tompkins has been DARPA s acting director, chief of staff and director of the Defense Sciences Office. ....