The new directive “launches one of the most ambitious efforts in decades to modernize how the department is organized and ...

Exemptions to DRP should be rare, but DoD component heads can exempt mission critical positions prior to offering the DRP and VERA.

The Department of Defense recently announced a “deferred resignation program and a voluntary early retirement authority (or ”VERA") for civilian employees — and employees can apply for either starting ...

One office at the Small Business Administration with around 1,500 employees has told those who accepted the “deferred ...

Read Next: House Republican Pushing for Tax Exemption for Military ... resignation and early retirement offers were available to all Defense Department civilians -- about 760,000 civilian ...

WASHINGTON — Highly qualified experts, civilian employees who are also reservists and foreign embassy staff do not qualify for the Defense Department’s deferred resignation program because ...

The Department of Defense approved more than 20,000 applications from civilian employees in the deferred resignation program, according to a senior defense official. The tally amounts to roughly ...

Approximately one-third of the employees the Department of Defense (DOD) will dismiss are voluntarily leaving through the deferred resignation ... Army prior to working for the department on the ...

Roughly 50,000 to 60,000 civilian jobs will be cut in the Defense Department, but fewer than 21,000 workers who took a voluntary resignation ... the cuts don't hurt military readiness.The cuts ...