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May 28, 2019 By AMK

Another initiative to enhance cyber workforce launched

A White House order on strengthening cybersecurity nationwide in general includes a provision to create a rotational program to boost those skills in the federal workforce, the latest of many such initiatives.

The order instructs OPM and OMB to establish within three months a “rotational assignment program, which will serve as a mechanism for knowledge transfer and a development program for cybersecurity practitioners,” with provisions for training and mentoring.

Also, within six months OPM and other agencies are to “identify a list of cybersecurity aptitude assessments for agencies to use in identifying current employees with the potential to acquire cybersecurity skills for placement in reskilling programs to perform cybersecurity work.” Agencies are to incorporate those assessments into their personnel development programs.

The Senate recently passed a bill to create a similar rotational program and efforts have been under way for years to better define which federal positions involve cybersecurity skills and where there are shortages. The government meanwhile has increased its use of shortcut hiring procedures and incentive pay and has started a program of retraining employees to take on such roles.

Keep reading article at: https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/another-initiative-to-enhance-cyber-workforce-launched/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: assessment, cyber, cyber workforce, cybersecurity, hiring, incentive pay, OBM, OPM

November 18, 2013 By AMK

VA contracts with non-VA medical providers lacked performance requirements, GAO says

Some Veterans Affairs Department contracts with non-VA medical providers didn’t contain specific performance requirements and contracting officer  representatives didn’t have time to monitor the contracts due to other duties,  an Oct. 31 Government Accountability Office report says.

Of the 12 contracts GAO reviewed from the four VA medical centers, 10 lacked specific performance requirements in  one or more of six categories: type of provider or care; credentialing and  privileging; clinical practice standards; medical record documentation; business  processes; and access to care.

In one case, a VA medical center cardiothoracic contract didn’t contain a  statement describing the contract provider’s responsibilities for reporting and responding to adverse events and patient complaints.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/va-contracts-non-va-medical-providers-lacked-performance-requirements-gao-s/2013-11-05

Download a copy of the GAO report at: http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/658685.pdf 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: assessment, contractor performance, GAO, monitoring, reporting requirements, VA

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