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Consolidating Federal HR: OMB Director Vought Pushes Sweeping Overhaul of Government Workforce Management
Russ Vought, the current Director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been in the spotlight over the past several days for a sweeping effort to overhaul how the federal government manages its workforce. According to Government Executive, Vought and Scott Kupor, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, issued a joint memo outlining a plan to consolidate all federal human resources data into a single technology platform by fiscal year twenty twenty eight, a project they are calling Federal H R two point zero. The memo describes a two year transition to move agencies off dozens of fragmented and outdated personnel systems and onto one commercial core human capital system that will serve as the governments system of record for personnel actions.
The Office of Personnel Managements official memo site shows that on December tenth, Vought and Kupor formally directed all executive departments and agencies to participate in this consolidation. They instructed agencies to pause new human capital management system procurements unless they receive specific approval, signaling that the White House budget office wants to lock in a single, governmentwide standard. The plan covers functions such as personnel processing, position management, self service tools for employees and managers, analytics, time and attendance, training, and integration with payroll, benefits, talent acquisition, performance management, and retirement systems. Early transition waves will include major departments like Agriculture, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Interior, Veterans Affairs, and Transportation, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, affecting hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
This push fits into a broader pattern of Vought using the Office of Management and Budget to reshape the federal workforce and its rules. Earlier memos listed on the Office of Personnel Management site show Vought co issuing guidance on implementing executive orders that change federal hiring, strengthen probationary periods, and require agencies to plan for reductions in force and reorganizations under the presidents Department of Government Efficiency initiative. These documents position the budget office not just as a fiscal gatekeeper, but as a central architect of federal personnel policy.
Voughts recent moves have drawn political reaction as well. LAist reports that during the ongoing battles over funding and shutdown related layoffs, Senator Susan Collins criticized what she called Voughts attempt to permanently lay off furloughed federal workers through reductions in force tied to the shutdown. That dispute underscores how decisions from the Office of Management and Budget director can quickly move from technical management changes to high stakes political fights affecting real jobs and services.
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