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How federal employees can become card-carrying experts on risk management

The Office of Management and Budget raised the bar on enterprise risk management through an update to its Circular A-123 two years ago. Now federal employees can become card-carrying experts on the topic.

The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), along with the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), issued 65 new RIMS-CRMP-FED certifications to federal enterprise risk management professionals last Tuesday.

Tom Brandt, the IRS’s chief risk officer and president-elect of AFERM, said the new credential helps set a governmentwide standard for the skills and expertise risk analysts should have on the job, even though agencies still face challenges that are unique to their missions… Read more or listen on Federal News Network