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 ...

The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the ...

Highly qualified experts, civilian employees who are also reservists and foreign embassy staff do not qualify for the Defense ...

At least four federal agencies are offering workers a new "deferred resignation" opportunity in the latest attempt by the ...

The Defense Department plans to offer a new round of voluntary resignations and early retirements to the civilian workforce, ...

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

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 ...

Senior Defense Department leaders have less than two weeks to submit proposals to shrink and reorganize their commands, ...

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 ...

In an effort to further shrink the size of its civilian workforce, the Defense Department is reopening the Deferred Resignation Program and offering early retirements or voluntary separations to its ...