Other priorities include IT, strategic sourcing and evidence-based performance metrics.

The Texas lawmaker was runner-up in the CPAC straw poll.

The program has never informed a Defense policy decision, a spokesman said.

Choices include having phone companies or another government agency retain private data.

Claire McCaskill says ‘clumsy’ databases aren’t helping agencies avoid incompetent contractors.

OPM creates a less ambitious timetable to process outstanding retirement claims.