Management
The Stories of Four VA Whistleblowers Who Exposed Lapsed Patient Care
Office of Special Counsel has won 25 corrective actions since last April’s scandal.
Management
How Healthy Is Your Agency? It Could Be Time for a Checkup
Find out what’s going right and wrong.
Oversight
Defense Employees Used Fake Website to Net Millions in Recruiting Bonuses
Sen. Claire McCaskill blasts a scheme that provided couple with $4 million in unearned rewards.
Defense
Republican Lawmakers Again Propose Slashing 115,000 Civilian Defense Jobs
Bill would target both rank-and-file and senior execs at the Pentagon.
Nextgov
Customs Agency Has to Keep Records for 75 Years. That’s a Lot of Tape Drives.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is mandated to store certain records for more than 70 years.
Management
Polls Give Obama, Dems Lift on Keystone Pipeline
Two new surveys suggest that the public is ambivalent about the project.
Oversight
Can Obama Get Congress To Help Him Fight Terrorism?
Of all the things he will propose Tuesday night, Obama’s biggest challenge remains getting buy in from Congress on foreign policy.
Nextgov
Is the Digital Wave Creating a ‘Never-Ending Work Day’ for Feds?
While federal managers are enthusiastic about the power of digital technology in the workplace, others worry it’s actually upended a healthy sense of work-life balance.
Route Fifty
A Big First Step for Snow Plowing Transparency
Pittsburgh has deployed GPS units to allow residents to track where plow trucks have been. But simply monitoring public works vehicle movements is only a partial solution.
Defense
The Savings from Seven Key Afghanistan Audits: $1.1 Billion
SIGAR’s summary shows Defense Department declined to implement 35 of 209 recommendations.
Management
When Lincoln's State of the Union Leaked
Someone close to Lincoln gave excerpts to the press, and the new president scrambled to avoid a very public humiliation.
Management
Why You Should Take Time to Not Think
Consider where you get your best ideas. It's probably not at your desk in front of your computer.
Oversight
Play of the Day: John Kerry Loves French Things
The Secretary of State is French enough to send to the Paris rally. But, were there better candidates?
Oversight
How Will Obama Speak to a Hostile Congress?
The State of the Union will set the tone for the next two years.
Oversight
The Real Target of Obama's Speech on Tuesday? Hillary Clinton
The president's proposals are designed to force his presumptive successor to campaign and govern on his terms.
Management
What Happened From Last Year's State of the Union Address
An annotated tour of the president’s 2014 speech.
Nextgov
Who’s Got the Chops to Run a Transatlantic Cyberspy Cell?
A sustained British-American operation focused on threats to both countries’ networks would be unprecedented.
Defense One
Special Report: The State of Defense 2015
As President Obama prepares to give his State of the Union speech, Defense One takes a closer look at the nation's military and the state of defense.
Nextgov
Survey: Government Agencies May be Better than the Private Sector at Responding to Hacks
About 43 percent of the public sector falls into the "highly sophisticated" security posture segment, according to the 2015 Cisco security report.
Management