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OPM details sweeping HR modernization plan and aims to centralize federal personnel systems
Summary
OPM Director Scott Cooper told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that the agency is consolidating federal HR systems into a single 'core HCM,' launching TechForce to recruit ~1,000 early-career technologists, and pursuing a 10‑year contract model for the unified system while promising fiscal transparency to appropriators.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government heard testimony Wednesday from Scott Cooper, director of the Office of Personnel Management, who outlined a multi-pronged modernization effort to consolidate the federal government’s human resources systems and speed retirement processing.
Cooper told the panel that OPM has replaced the outdated FedScope tool with a monthly federal workforce data portal and is building what he called a single-instance 'core HCM' (human capital management) system intended to serve roughly 2,000,000 civilian employees across government. Cooper said the program’s procurement remains under way and that OPM is aiming for broad transitions within about 18 months for initial agencies, with…
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