'Back-Door' Base Closures
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Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
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Military benefits are good, but could be better, Defense official says
May 24, 2002 Military benefits programs are good, but important areas need improvement, such as compensation, spousal employment and children's education, the Defense Department's top personnel official said recently. In April, the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, issued preliminary findings on an ongoing study of military benefits. GAO concluded that the military ...
Pentagon repair work ahead of schedule
January 31, 2002 Workers are ahead of schedule in repairing the huge hole sliced out of the Pentagon on Sept. 11 by a terrorist-hijacked airliner. Brett D. Eaton, communications director of the Pentagon Renovation Program, said 100 to 200 employees a week have been able to return to the building as fast as ...
Military spouses get more flexible employment options
June 5, 2001 Job-seeking military spouses in Europe received a special gift June 1 in the forms of more flexible and less restrictive Defense employment options. Military spouses who participate in a two-year pilot program called MSP Choice are allowed to accept an interim job without losing their rehire preference under the Military ...
DoD works to fill civilian 'skills gap'
June 26, 2000 DoD has a potential civilian employee problem, and Jerome Smith is working on preventing it. The problem is that thousands of highly skilled "baby boomers" will become eligible to retire shortly. Any mass exodus would leave a giant skills gap in DoD's civilian workforce. Smith said DoD should starting planning ...
