GovExec.com Today - September 2, 2004
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September 2, 2004
* Air marshals under review following inspector general's investigation
* More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers
* FDIC goes to Congress for human capital overhaul
* GAO: FBI's antiterrorism focus not harming traditional work
* Agencies urged to develop teleworker corps for emergency situations
* Special ATF crew assembled for convention
* Today's column: Pay and Benefits Watch
* The Earlybird: Today's headlines
* Quote of the Day
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1. Air marshals under review following inspector general's investigation
By Beth Dickey
The Federal Air Marshal Service is reviewing the backgrounds of thousands of secret
agents after the Homeland Security Department's inspector general exposed hundreds of
cases of misconduct.
"We're going to examine them to make sure they meet law enforcement thresholds," FAMS
spokesman Dave Adams told Government Executive Wednesday. "If they do not meet these
thresholds, we will take appropriate action - up to and including dismissal."
Officers who safeguard the skies from terrorists have lied on job applications, slept
on duty, worked under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and lost their weapons,
according to the DHS Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104b1.htm }
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2. More mid-career government jobs going to private sector workers
By Shawn Zeller
The government filled a greater percentage of mid-career jobs with private sector
applicants in 2003, but the number of job notices advertised to all-comers declined,
according to a new survey by the Partnership for Public Service.
The partnership, a Washington nonprofit group working to encourage more Americans to
consider federal employment, found that government agencies filled 15.3 percent of
positions from GS-12 to GS-15 with outside hires. The total has risen each year since
the partnership first conducted its mid-career hiring survey in 2000, when only 10.5
percent of the GS-12 to GS-15 positions were filled from the outside.
During the same time period, though, the number of jobs opened to outside applicants
declined from 49 percent to 43 percent.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104sz1.htm }
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3. FDIC goes to Congress for human capital overhaul
By David McGlinchey
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Wednesday asked Congress to grant the
agency a broad range of human capital flexibilities that officials say are vital to
continuing proper regulation of the banking industry.
"We're looking for flexibility; the banking industry is changing very rapidly," said
Glen Bjorklund, the FDIC's deputy director for administration. "We cannot adjust our
workforce as quickly, or even plan."
The FDIC's proposal was sent to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the House
Government Reform Committee, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee
and the House Committee on Financial Services.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104d1.htm }
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4. GAO: FBI's antiterrorism focus not harming traditional work
By Amelia Gruber
The FBI's post-Sept. 11 focus on combating terrorism has not necessarily detracted
from the federal government's efforts to investigate drug-related, white-collar and
violent crimes, according to a new Government Accountability Office study.
FBI officials transferred substantial numbers of field agents to counterterrorism,
counterintelligence and cybercrime work following the terrorist attacks, and attention
to traditional drug and criminal cases fell in the next two years, GAO auditors
reported. But outside agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, are
closing the gap, the analysis of enforcement statistics indicated.
Drug enforcement didn't make the top 10 list when FBI Director Robert Mueller outlined
his agency's new priorities in May 2002. White-collar crime came in seventh on the
list and violent crime ended up eighth, while counterterrorism, counterintelligence
and cybercrime filled the top three slots.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104a1.htm }
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5. Agencies urged to develop teleworker corps for emergency situations
By Daniel Pulliam
The Office of Personnel Management released updated emergency guides last week,
emphasizing the need for agencies to have plans for employees to work from home during
emergencies. OPM also released guides for the families of federal employees and
managers.
The udpated emergency preparedness guides from OPM stress the need for agencies to
have plans that allow "the business of government to continue during emergency
situations." The guides stress that telework is an effective method that would allow
employees not selected to go to the Designated Continuity of Operations facilities
during an emergency to continue their work.
Agencies are supposed to develop a cadre of teleworkers who will learn to work
off-site electronically and supervisors who can manage employees remotely. Eliminating
paper and automating reports whenever possible will help employees to experience
functioning in a virtual office.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104dp1.htm }
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6. Special ATF crew assembled for convention
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., National Journal
They're the guys you hope you never see. It's not that members of the National
Response Team from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are not helpful,
pleasant people. It's that they have one mission, and one only: to investigate the
causes of fires and explosions so disastrous that neither the local fire department
nor the closest ATF field office can cope. The team has been to abortion-clinic
bombings in Alabama, a supermarket fire in Paraguay, and the smoldering Pentagon on
9/11. Now, for the first time since the initial terrorist attack on the World Trade
Center in 1993, they're in New York -- waiting.
Frank Malter heads the special unit that ATF has assembled for the convention. A
30-year bureau veteran certified as an investigator for both bombings and arson,
Malter has been to incidents all over the country, and beyond, including Colombia,
Israel, and Suriname. Of Suriname, Malter admitted, "I didn't even know where it was.
And it was the first bombing they ever had."
Based in North Carolina, Malter normally leads the team's southeastern regional
sub-team. But rather than strip any part of the country of its response capability,
the ATF has pulled arson investigators, bomb experts, chemists, and dog handlers from
all over the country to form a special task force for the Republican National
Convention.
Full story: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090104nj1.htm }
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7. Today's column: Pay and Benefits Watch
Seeing Red
Union leaders appealed to Congress Wednesday to restart personnel talks with the
Defense Department and also leveled harsh accusations, calling the National Security
Personnel System a front for outsourcing government jobs.
Full column: { Link: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204pb.htm }
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0904/090204pb.htm
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8. The Earlybird: Today's headlines
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9. Quote of the Day
"There's not that level of rancor or concern that you are seeing with the Department
of Defense's proposal."
-- FDIC Deputy Director Glen Bjorklund, { Link:
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misjudging union opposition to a proposed overhaul of the FDIC personnel system.
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