Sen. James Lankford, R-OK, earlier this week sent a letter to OPM Director Kiran Ahuja noting that processing times for more difficult retirement cases have increased.

The proposed Senate bill would require telework where possible while granting agency heads the flexibility to sanction in-person work when necessary.

The new process will offer market-sensitive pay across the board and enable the department to make job offers more quickly, such as at tech conferences.

As Congress debates whether to fund the TMF in 2019, its board members are already weighing new IT modernization projects.

The Senate passed appropriations legislation that includes $154 billion in discretionary funding, but not a penny is going to the TMF, as it stands.

After two confirmation hearings Tuesday, it was clear that President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget has DATA Act implementation in mind.

After more than $280 million spent over six years on an IT project that has yet to be completed, two recent studies argue the Social Security Administration’s faltering IT…