Management
Five Simple Ways to Feel Better and Perform Better
How to kick-start your physical and emotional well-being.
Management
Welcome Spring With This Forest Service Map of the U.S. Blooming
Maps from the agency show signs of the season across America's forests, fields, and urban areas.
Defense
What Are the Alternatives to Obama's Iran Deal?
Israel’s prime minister says more sanctions will produce a better nuclear agreement. But the evidence suggests otherwise.
Route Fifty
Drone Aircraft Help Save Taxpayer Dollars in Hawaii
They also make certain dangerous jobs safer.
Nextgov
Exclusive: FAA Computer Systems Hit by Cyberattack Earlier this Year
Hackers earlier this year attacked a Federal Aviation Administration network with malicious software, an assault that has gone undisclosed until now.
News
DHS Chief Promises Improvements After Show Blasts ‘Dysfunctional’ Department
60 Minutes says Homeland Security is an overgrown “management nightmare.”
Pay & Benefits
Congress Doesn’t Have Appetite For Messing with the G Fund, Senator Says
A proposal to limit the return rate on the TSP’s most stable offering is unlikely, according to Maryland Democrat.
Nextgov
Snowden: NSA Not (Specifically) Looking for Your Nude Photos
Americans are largely bored with conversations about surveillance reform. What about when it touches on their most intimate communications?
Tech
Chelsea Manning is Tweeting From Military Prison
She tweets by calling her PR firm and dictating over the telephone.
Management
How the 2016 Republicans Will Debate NSA Reform
Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are likely going to hit their opponents—and each other—early and often for backing mass surveillance.
Management
Science Agrees: Being Laid Off Is Terrible
New research from England suggests that cutbacks can lead to lasting trust issues.
Nextgov
Immigration Ruling Also Halted Buildout of Digital Work Permit System
The injunction has halted plans to accommodate the intake of an additional 5 million undocumented individuals whose deportations would be postponed by Obama's policies.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Security and Privacy Can Coexist…With Restrictions
Last Week Tonight looks at NSA surveillance.
Management
Why Every Manager Should Use the Great Sewerage Equation
Backlogs are not a government problem. They are a large-organization problem.
Employee Policy
Report on USPS finances highlights good and bad
A new Postal Regulatory Commission analysis of the financial health of the U.S. Postal Service released April 1 paints a dismal fiscal portrait of the organization, even though some lines of business have shown improvement.
Employee Policy
Senator debuts bill to restore NIH funding
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has introduced a new bill that would ensure sufficient funding for the National Institutes of Health.
Financial Planning
Group to award scholarships to military children, spouses
A group that funds post-secondary scholarships for the children and spouses of military service members has opened applications for more than $1 million in scholarships.
Retirement
Lawmaker thinks G Fund change unlikely
A Maryland senator downplayed the notion that Congress would move to cut the return on the Thrift Savings Plan's G Fund.
Employee Policy
Two Border Patrol agents charged with theft
The Michigan Attorney General's Public Integrity Unit last month charged two Border Patrol agents with theft and misconduct in office.
Retirement