Furlough 'Consistency and Fairness'
Innovation in Government Dips
TSP Funds Stay Positive in April
5 Agencies with the Most Disconnected Leadership
No Bonuses for VA Benefits Execs
Will You Be Furloughed?
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Susan Fourney
Managing Editor
As managing editor, Susan Fourney has been part of the editorial leadership team at Government Executive since 1995. She has more than 30 years of newspaper and magazine experience, mostly covering federal management issues. Prior to joining Government Executive, she was managing editor at Federal Times. Early in her career she worked as an editor and writer at Army Times and Dallas/Fort Worth Suburban Newspapers. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from George Mason University.
In Focus: Funding Defense
April 18, 2013 The national defense base budget has outweighed non-defense spending for much of the past three decades, according to data compiled by the Congressional Research Service. In constant dollars, defense base budget authority in 1977 was lower than non-defense -- $340.6 billion versus $421.1 billion. In 2012, national defense spending was ...
Budget Winners and Losers
April 10, 2013 While federal deficit reduction and sequestration have dominated the national conversation during the past year, not all agencies would see spending cuts under President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal. Eight departments and major agencies would see increases in discretionary funding under the president’s plan. The State and Commerce departments would ...
In Focus: Where the Federal Workforce Counts
April 2, 2013 As agencies scramble to determine which employees might be subject to furlough and for how long, states are bracing for the economic fallout from sequestration. Government’s budget crunch sometimes is viewed as solely a Washington problem, but its impact also will be felt disproportionately in other parts of the country ...
In Focus: Clocking Clearances
March 29, 2013 As recently as 2007, if you were a federal employee or contractor who needed a security clearance to handle classified information you could expect to wait more than 100 days before your background investigation was complete. Now the average wait is little more than a month, according to data from ...
Timeline: The March Into Combat
February 27, 2013 As Pentagon leaders figure out how to integrate female service members into direct ground combat units, they have more than 200 years of precedent to fall back on. Women have been on the battlefield since the American Revolution, albeit surreptitiously at times. Before World War II, most of them were ...
Around Government
December 1, 2012 Nobel Pursuits NIST scientist David Wineland’s work leads to the call of his life. By Kedar Pavgi People in government tend to associate the 3 a.m. phone call with a crisis. For National Institute of Standards and Technology scientist David Wineland it was one of the best surprises of his ...
Around Government
April 1, 2012 The Battle of the Bulge Military bases feature healthier choices on the menu as obesity rises in the ranks. By Caitlin Fairchild In the mid-1990s, one in 50 service members wrestled with weight issues, according to Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs. That number jumped to ...
