The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an independent agency of the United States government that manages the United States federal civil service. The agency provides federal human resources policy,oversight,and support,and tends to healthcare (FEHB),life insurance (FEGLI),and retirement benefits for federal government employees,retirees,and their dependents.
The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce of the United States federal government's departments and agencies. The federal civil service was established in 1871. U.S. state and local government entities often have comparable civil service systems that are modeled on the national system to varying degrees.
Kay Coles James is an American public official who served as secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2022 to August 2023,and as the director for the United States Office of Personnel Management under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. Previous to the OPM appointment,she served as Virginia secretary of health and human resources under then-Governor George Allen and was the dean of Regent University's government school. She is the president and founder of the Gloucester Institute,a leadership training center for young African Americans.
The Federal Salary Council (FSC) is an advisory body of the executive branch of the United States government. Established under the provisions of Title 5,section 5304(e) of the United States Code,the FSC provides recommendations on the locality pay program,created by the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 (FEPCA). The locality pay program provides for localized pay differentials,also known as "comparability payments," for federal employees paid under the pay scale of the United States federal civil service who work in the United States and its territories and possessions. Section 1911 of Public Law 111-84,the Non-Foreign Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act of 2009,phased in locality pay for employees in the non-foreign areas as identified in Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations (5 C.F.R. 591.205). Alaska and Hawaii are separate locality-pay areas with separate pay tables. Other non-foreign areas are included as part of the "Rest of U.S." locality pay area.
Morrell John Berry is an American former government official who was named President of the American Australian Association in 2016. Berry was director of the United States Office of Personnel Management from 2009 to 2013 and United States Ambassador to Australia from 2013 to 2016.
The National Finance Center (NFC) is a federal government agency division under the United States Department of Agriculture that provides human resources,financial and administrative services for agencies of the United States federal government. NFC's customer base is composed of more than 130 federal organizations,representing all three branches of the government.
Dan Gregory Blair currently serves as an independent senior consultant to the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Formerly,Blair served in senior positions in the nonprofit sector. He served as a senior counselor examining and recommending reforms on the presidential appointments process for the Center on Presidential Transition. He also served as Fellow and Senior Counselor at the Bipartisan Policy Center and led a task force of government and private sector management experts charged with examining government oversight issues. He also advises private sector clients on a broad array of government management and postal issues.
Janice Rachel Lachance is an American attorney and government official working as the president of the American Society for Public Administration. She was previously the 13th chief executive of the Special Libraries Association and director of the United States Office of Personnel Management.
Gustave F. Perna is a retired United States Army four-star general who last served as the chief operating officer of the federal COVID-19 response for vaccine and therapeutics. He previously served as the chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed from July 2020 until the operation's duties and responsibilities were transferred to the White House COVID-19 Response Team in February 2021. As chief operating officer of COVID-19 response,he oversaw the logistics in the United States federal government's distribution of the vaccine to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate confirmed his nomination as chief operating officer on July 2,2020,and he assumed the office shortly after.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history,the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based in China,widely believed to be the Jiangsu State Security Department,a subsidiary of China's Ministry of State Security spy agency.
Katherine L. Archuleta is an American teacher and a political executive. She was the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management. President Barack Obama appointed her on May 23,2013. She was sworn in on November 4,2013. She had previously served as National Political Director for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Prior to that,she had been executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation in New Mexico,had co-founded the Latina Initiative,had worked at a Denver law firm,and had worked in the Clinton Administration as chief of staff to the Secretary of Transportation,Federico Peña. She became embroiled in controversy after the disclosure of a massive national security breach in June 2015. The hack involved the theft of millions of federal employee records and included security-clearance details dating back 15 years,which prompted lawmakers from both political parties to demand that she resign. On July 10,2015,Archuleta tendered her resignation.
Beth Frances Cobert is an American businesswoman and has been a government official. She served as the acting Director for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from July 10,2015 to January 20,2017. As of March 2021,she is Chief Operating Officer of the Markle Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Skillful,an initiative of that foundation.
The Human Resources University was an award-winning learning and development platform created as part of the United States Office of Personnel Management which serves as the national focal point for the development and delivery of human resources training to enhance the capabilities of the Federal workforce. HRU provided services to Federal human resources contractor personnel as well. Since inception HRU had more than 50,000 registered students from across the Federal government. In April 2014 HRU received recognition for saving the Federal government over $100 million in cost savings in training costs.
This is a list of political appointments of current officeholders made by the 45th president of the United States,Donald Trump.
Russell "Russ" Thurlow Vought is an American former government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB from 2018 to 2020 and acting director from 2019 to 2020.
George Nesterczuk is an American political advisor,consultant,and government official. He was nominated by President Donald Trump in June 2017 to become the Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management,but he later withdrew his candidacy over potential delays in the confirmation process.
Eric M. Ueland is an American political advisor and government official in the Trump administration. He served as the acting Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights from 2020 to 2021 and previously as the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs in 2020.
Margaret Weichert is an American businesswoman,inventor,and government executive,was Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget from February 28,2018 until March 25,2020. Concurrently,she was Acting Director at the Office of Personnel Management from October 2018 until September 16,2019.
Frederick M. Nutt is an American government official currently serving as USAID's Assistant Administrator for Management. He was appointed to the position in April 2019. Previously,he served as a senior advisor of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),he has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become Controller at the OMB. Nutt previously worked as senior advisor to the vice president for management at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation where he was responsible for managing financial resources supporting information technology,acquisition,facilities,and security operations. Nutt also worked at the newly created Millennium Challenge Corporation,where he initiated management operations,including financial and management information systems. Prior to this,Nutt was senior advisor to the chief financial officer at the Environmental Protection Agency where he worked on implementing the President's Management Agenda. From 1995 to 1997,he worked on budget and appropriations legislation in the United States House of Representatives while serving in the Office of the Speaker.
A Schedule F appointment was a job classification in the excepted service of the United States federal civil service that existed briefly at the end of the Trump administration during 2020–2021. It would have contained policy-related positions,removing their civil service protections and making them easy to fire. It was never fully implemented,and no one was appointed to it before it was repealed at the beginning of the Biden administration.
