Office of Personnel Management(OPM)
Independent agency for federal workforce policy, hiring, benefits, retirement services, and human-capital systems.
Function
Independent agency
Parent
Top-level (no parent)
FY2026 Budget Authority
$384.43B
Official Data
USAspending.govEvidence & Review
Evidence Confidence
MediumVerification Status
AI-researched, unverifiedLast Reviewed
Jul 5, 2026
Retrieved On
Jul 5, 2026
Modernization Levers
Governmentwide talent marketplace, digital retirement claims, interoperable HR data, and workforce analytics that protect privacy.
Administrative Burden Review
Applicants, employees, retirees, and agency HR offices face high documentation and waiting costs.
Duplication & Coordination Review
Agency-specific HR systems persist because OPM platforms have not always been reliable enough; shared services must earn adoption through performance.
Risk & Guardrails
Do not politicize merit-system protections or replace judgment-based hiring with opaque automated screening.
Innovation Party Proposal
Make OPM the civil-service capacity agency: modern retirement and hiring systems, portable skills data, and shared HR services that agencies use because they are faster and more reliable.