May 17, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
To mark Public Service Recognition Week, the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service assembled former federal foreign policy experts who gained fame by boldly and publicly confronting their superiors with facts.
May 12, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
We take them for granted now – robotic vehicles operating in emergency or disaster situations. Reliance on robots didn’t just happen. Among other things, it took the establishment of accurate and repeatable testing methodologies, to know for sure if a robot could traverse a rocky slope or a smoky building. For his work at developing...
May 12, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
For his leadership role in bringing home more than 100,000 U.S. citizens stranded abroad in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, a Fordham Law alumnus working for the State Department is up for an award often called the Oscars of government service.
May 11, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
Agencies have made cloud progress over the past year – identifying workloads they can move to the cloud, reducing costs, increasing data availability, and supporting maximum telework. At the same time, over the past year – we’ve seen growing awareness that procurement modernization ispossible and can help to transform Federal IT infrastructure.
May 11, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
For Ken Graham, 2020 was deeply personal. During the most active Atlantic hurricane season in 170 years of recorded history, he’d inform those in harm’s way of 11 landfalling U.S. tropical cyclones. That is a challenge unto itself. But it was also happening in the middle of the worst global pandemic in more than a...
May 5, 2021
Publication Type: News Release
WASHINGTON – The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service released the following statement from President and CEO Max Stier on the re-introduction of the Inspire to Serve Act, H.R. 3000. “Employers of choice cannot spend decades without modernizing their personnel systems, but that’s exactly what has been done by our federal government. The Inspire to Serve Act sets forth bold actions that will help the federal government recruit and hire highly skilled, capable civil servants needed to meet the increasingly...
May 5, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
President Joe Biden applauded the Partnership for Public Service’s 2021 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals finalists May 5 as a reminder of the important work that federal employees do to serve the American public.
May 5, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
One good thing about the last year’s seemingly endless crisis is the opportunity to render outstanding public service. And that’s what this year’s class of Service to America Medals finalists have done. Announced this week, many have risen to the challenge of the pandemic. For a review, the President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service...
May 5, 2021
Publication Type: In the News
Federal employee engagement is up this year despite the challenges from the pandemic. About 75% of federal employees say their work gives them a sense of personal accomplishment.