TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Rocky Flats cleanup contract called model for future federal efforts
November 15, 2005 The just-completed cleanup of a plutonium pit-production facility in Colorado should serve as a model for future U.S. cleanup work, senators and officials said at a committee hearing Tuesday. Of particular importance to completing the Rocky Flats project on a tight schedule, said the officials and lawmakers, were financial incentives ...
Senators blast TSA over rail security efforts
October 20, 2005 U.S. senators Thursday laid into the head of the Transportation Security Administration over what the lawmakers and government auditors say have been inadequate efforts to protect freight and passenger rail systems against a terrorist attack. The security agency has no clear priorities for protecting the rails and has not completed ...
Local emergency teams resist plain-language radio rules
August 26, 2005 A month before the United States begins tying antiterrorism grants to recipients' observance of a new national emergency system, U.S. officials are cautioning state and local agencies against "continued resistance" to the system. As of Oct. 1, prospective recipients of federal terrorism grants must show "good-faith efforts" to implement the ...
U.S. ports begin catastrophic terrorist attack drills
August 25, 2005 U.S. ports are preparing for catastrophic terrorism in a major new program of security drills that began last week in the San Francisco Bay area and continues next week in Baltimore. The federal Port Security Training Exercises Program (PortSTEP) brings together government and private-sector officials responsible for maritime transportation and ...
Marine Corps prepares to take on WMD-armed adversaries
August 22, 2005 The Marine Corps' amphibious capabilities are becoming increasingly important as the Defense Department plans for potential confrontations with enemies armed with weapons of mass destruction, experts and Marine officials said last week at a conference on the future of the corps. Faced with the possibility that neighbors of WMD-equipped U.S. ...
D.C. train ban remains on hold while other cities efforts advance
August 11, 2005 Efforts to ban certain rail shipments of toxic chemicals are moving forward in some U.S. cities despite a lengthy court battle that has put on hold a ban the District of Columbia enacted in February. Amid heightened concerns of terrorist threats to rail systems following the recent London attacks, momentum ...
HHS, DHS officials defend cooperative efforts
July 12, 2005 The Homeland Security and Health and Human Services departments are cooperating well and moving as quickly as they can in efforts to boost the nation's stockpile of countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction, officials from the two agencies said Tuesday in response to legislators' concerns. The two agencies have distinct ...
GAO: Pentagon largely complying with threat reduction reporting requirements
July 5, 2005 The Defense Department is mostly in compliance with requirements for reporting on its efforts to secure and destroy nuclear materials in the former Soviet Union, the Government Accountability Office said in an analysis released Friday. The Pentagon's fiscal 2006 report on the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, submitted to Congress in ...
Detectors at sea, new monitor technology eyed in bid to foil nuclear smuggling
June 22, 2005 Placing radiation monitors in cargo containers at sea and deploying new spectroscopic monitors at ports could help the United States overcome the inherent difficulties in detecting illicit nuclear material in transit, experts and officials said Tuesday at a House of Representatives hearing. A recent spate of congressional hearings and expert ...
Critics slam politicians for ineffective antiterror policies
June 2, 2005 Key U.S. liberal thinkers on Thursday laid into both Republican and Democratic leaders over their approaches to combating terrorism and addressing weapons of mass destruction. Current U.S. antiterrorism policy keeps the populace in fear to create support for military action abroad but avoids taking obvious steps that could reduce terrorists' ...
