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The article offers an update on the efforts of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) to build its identity in Washington D.C. to support federal funding for industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology research and use it to help guide policy discussions. It provides information on the advocacy activities of SIOP including meetings on federal workforce policy and congressional briefing on the science of recruiting, hiring and training veterans for the civilian workforce.

We are excited to share with you information about SIOP's new efforts to build its identity in Washington, DC to support federal funding for I-O research and use our research to help guide policy discussions. Each quarter we will report to you on new advocacy activities as well as our analysis of the role of I-O psychology in significant federal or congressional initiatives, such as the annual appropriations process and emerging national initiatives. We are excited about our early progress and look forward to working with you as we pursue these important goals! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of the members of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in informing policy decisions about issues involving the society in general. According to the authors, they provide members with updates about the various initiatives that SIOP, and its partner Lewis-Burke, are undertaking to build an identity in Washington, D.C. It notes that SIOP embarked on a government relations initiative with Lewis-Burke Associates LLC in July 2013.