Lawmakers question homeland chief about pay and benefits report

Two lawmakers with oversight of civil service and agency management issues are concerned that they haven’t yet seen the Homeland Security Department’s plan for consolidating pay and benefits systems. The plan was due to Congress on Feb. 24.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• March 5, 2003

Former Bush official praises cybersecurity consolidation

• Maureen Sirhal
• March 5, 2003

Lockheed Martin positions to win shipbuilding deal

• Congress Daily
• March 5, 2003

Customs project moves ahead despite management challenges, official says

• Amelia Gruber
• March 5, 2003

Vendors urged to work through Homeland Security agencies

• Maureen Sirhal
• March 4, 2003

Agencies are overcoming data-sharing barriers, officials say

Federal agencies are making progress in overcoming "cultural" barriers and turf wars that once prevented them from sharing key information or data related to homeland security, a panel of officials said on Tuesday.

• Maureen Sirhal
• March 4, 2003

Border agency plans to hire more than 2,000 new employees

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• March 4, 2003

Former drug czar lauds progress in war on drugs

• Mark H. Rodeffer
• March 4, 2003

Cochran to head homeland appropriations subcommittee

• Congress Daily
• March 4, 2003

Foot soldiers

An Army platoon leader prepares his men for combat.

• George C. Wilson
• March 4, 2003

Security agency's chief outlines emerging role of tech firms

• Maureen Sirhal
• March 3, 2003

Fort Stewart mobilizes: The inside story

How soldiers and civilians worked together to move the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and all of its equipment to the Middle East.

• George Cahlink
• March 3, 2003

Elimination of cybersecurity board concerns tech industry

• Bara Vaida
• March 3, 2003

Senate spending panel set to approve homeland security reorganization

• Congress Daily
• March 3, 2003

Screeners form union despite agency opposition

Transportation Security Administration security screeners are forming a union even though the head of the agency said he will not formally bargain with employee unions.

• Brian Friel
• March 3, 2003

Interim field managers named at new border agencies

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• March 3, 2003

Legislation in the works on smallpox compensation issue

• David McGlinchey
• February 28, 2003

New group to address 'disconnect' in security market

• Molly M. Peterson
• February 28, 2003

Homeland Security Department absorbs agencies

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• February 28, 2003

Officials fear war abroad will breed terror at home

State and local homeland security officials see war with Iraq as intensifying the terror threat at home, and say they lack the resources to be fully prepared.

• Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Siobhan Gorman
• February 28, 2003