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email OPM Appointments Mark a Radical Shift in Agency s Role
The hiring of high-level executives from organized labor marks a return to federal employee unions having a seat at the table in the formulation of federal personnel policy.
The Biden administration last week announced the appointment of half a dozen political officials to the Office of Personnel Management in a move that experts say could position the agency well in its efforts to reassert itself.
The list of non-Senate confirmed political appointees includes a mix of campaign veterans and subject matter experts. Rita Aguilar, senior advisor in the Office of Congressional, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, was on President Biden’s OPM transition team, and has previously served as a deputy associate attorney general, while Deputy General Counsel Rachel Cotton led the transition te
US Air National Guard/Tech. Sgt. Amy M. Lovgren
When US military personnel are stuck in harm s way, it s often the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency that gets them home.
JPRA is the Pentagon s clearinghouse for personnel-recovery operations and provides specialized training for troops who go into high-risk situations.
On the night of March 21, 2011, a US F-15E fight jet crashed in Libya while participating in Operation Odyssey Dawn, the air campaign against Col. Muammar Gaddafi s regime.
The pilot and weapons officer managed to eject but were stranded in enemy territory. Within just a few hours, friendly forces had recovered both.
Homeland Security issued a striking new plea for volunteers to help at the border, telling employees in a new email that they won't even have to be on-site but can instead do a "virtual deployment."
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