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• Most TSA employees are in line for performance-based payouts (11/20/09)
  Unions say the system is arbitrary, however, because the quality of work required for a given raise fluctuates.
• Grassley: Nominees are lax on compliance (11/20/09)
  Many of the president's nominees have had tax troubles.
• Auditor and lawmakers are skeptical of stimulus data (11/19/09)
  GAO finds recipients listed tens of thousands of jobs from projects where they had yet to report any spending.
• Agencies' improper payments increase; Obama to issue executive order (11/18/09)
  Administration says jump is due largely to better measurement, but rate is still "too high."
• Analysts: Defense industry will survive flatter budgets (11/18/09)
  Contractors have benefited from a 60 percent spike in procurement and research and development accounts in the last eight years.
• OMB will release top government performance goals in February (11/17/09)
  President's fiscal 2011 budget proposal will contain management objectives for agencies.
• Rule would require contractors to vet employees for conflicts of interest (11/13/09)
  Proposed change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation would put burden on contractors, rather than the government.
• Obama eyes domestic spending freeze (11/13/09)
  Administration warns agencies to prepare for flat or decreasing budgets in fiscal 2011.
• USAID nomination raises agency questions (11/13/09)
  Agriculture official's nomination sparks concerns about the future of USDA research programs and USAID's relationship with State.
• IT acquisitions present new challenges for Pentagon (11/12/09)
  Top Defense official says department must be nimble in providing soldiers with state-of-the-art technologies.
• Search for illegal immigrants widens (11/12/09)
  Homeland Security announces that by 2013 all law enforcement agencies should be able to access technology identifying illegal immigrants in U.S. prison system.
• From Nextgov.com: Will the White House give CIOs more power in the fiscal 2011 budget? (11/11/09)
  Some see language in fiscal 2010 spending bills as a signal that the Obama administration will grant IT chiefs more spending authority, while others say wait and see.
• White House push to reduce contractors is at odds with expanding role of agencies (11/11/09)
  President Obama's ambitious agenda is running head on into its desire to cut contracting. Something has to give.
• Procurement nominee stresses importance of building acquisition workforce (11/10/09)
  Daniel Gordon is a "broadly supported, uncontroversial nomination," says Senate chairman.
• Democrat seeks vote on debt panel deal (11/10/09)
  Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana is one of 15 lawmakers looking at a must-pass increase in the federal debt ceiling as leverage for action on commission proposal.
• Miscounting of stimulus jobs cuts two ways (11/10/09)
  Spending reports indicate that contract and grant recipients under- and over-counted jobs created and saved.
• Salary council makes 2011 locality pay rate recommendations (11/10/09)
  Congress still needs to act on 2010 civilian raise.
• Panel to look into bipartisan debt-reduction commissions (11/10/09)
  The normal budget process "cannot deal with a debt burden of this proportion," key senator says.
• Forward Observer: Another Looming Disaster (11/09/09)
  Retired officer says the all-volunteer military "has priced itself out of the market."
• Federal employees have fewer health insurance choices this year (11/06/09)
  As Open Season begins, choices are more limited than before as several plans leave the federal program or reduce their coverage.