This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found After a shutdown of the national airspace in 2023 due to an aging air traffic control (ATC) system outage, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted an operational risk assessment to evaluate the sustainability of all ATC systems. The assessment determined that of (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found From fiscal years 2019 through 2023, federal agencies obligated over $500 billion on contracts associated with consulting services. The Departments of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) accounted for over half of this amount. Given these agencies’ missions, contracted consulting services (more…)

This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. Workers at the Inter-American Foundation almost unanimously voted to join the American Federation of Government Employees last week amid claims of no in-house human resources and an undermanned staff.

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL) and the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) administer multiple grant programs under the Older Americans Act. Although ACL and ETA identified various staff involved in (more…)

This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. Between balancing recruiting fresh, digital-literate talent and upskilling an experienced workforce, agencies in the Intelligence Community also need to ensure they are updating their career development processes to retain both, says former DOD CIO John Sherman.

This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. If elected this fall, Donald Trump’s return to Washington would promise a more aggressive—and plausible—campaign to hobble unions, politicize the nonpartisan civil service and remake the federal government in the Republican’s image.

This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. A new GAO report found that before the agency can further scale up the program to consolidate federal office spaces, it must find out how to measure its cost-savings gains.