Financial uncertainty on the Office of Personnel Management is promoting the Trump management this week to push for a whole reorganization of the corporation more actively. It’s the first time the administration has admitted that OPM, which relies upon a revolving fund well worth $1.68 billion in economic 2019, can be on the shaky ground while the National Background Investigations Bureau and its security clearance enterprise actions to the Defense Department on Oct. 1.
Specifically, OPM will face a funding shortfall of roughly $70 million when NBIB and its safety clearance commercial enterprise leave the organization for the Pentagon, Margaret Weichert, OPM’s appearing director, and deputy director for control the Office of Management and Budget, said Tuesday. And it’s one of several motives the Trump management has given for the OPM reorganization in its “case for trade,” which it has shared with the press and lawmakers this week. The case for change comes before a hearing scheduled subsequent Tuesday earlier than the House Oversight and Reform’s Government Operations Subcommittee.
When the idea to reorganize OPM was first made public closing June, the administration said it was the organization’s lousy managing of the 2015 statistics breaches and a seemingly impossible backlog of 700,000 pending clearances at the National Background Investigations Bureau that necessitated the need for alternate.
Margaret Weichert, OPM’s acting director and the Office of Management and Budget’s deputy director for control, has described the need to elevate the reputation of human capital control for the federal personnel to a relevant office in the Executive Office of President as some other purpose for the reorganization.
