Management
At NIH, Biomedical Research Is Enough to Make You Break Into Song
The Common Fund celebrates 10 years of transformative science.
Pay & Benefits
OPM Reduces Retirement Backlog to Its Lowest Point in Years
Fewer feds are sending in claims and OPM is processing them more quickly.
Management
The Most Valuable Keywords to Have on a Tech Resume
At every education level, jobs requiring STEM skills in the US take far more time and money to fill than just about anything else.
Pay & Benefits
Progress on the Retirement Claims Backlog, In One Chart
The backlog fell 15 percent in June.
Management
How to Remember All Your Passwords and Keep Them Safe
For anyone who’s been a web user for a significant amount of time, the number of such accounts that require passwords is high, unmanageable even.
Management
Forget Hobby Lobby—This Case Could Wreck Obamacare
A ruling is expected any day now in a case that could tear the Affordable Care Act apart.
Oversight
A Catch-All Package of Spending Bills Is Looking More Likely
Appropriations bills are on Congress' long list of unfinished business.
Management
What's With This 'Obama Is Backing Elizabeth Warren Over Hillary' Story?
New York Post suggests a secret plan, citing 'personal animosity.'
Management
Check Out the First Progress Reports on Agency Priority Goals
Updated list shows 33 new goals for fiscal 2014-2015.
Management
Quality Cost Data Is Key to Making Better Management Decisions
Executives must distinguish between two important (and often confused) types of cost estimating.
Oversight
Remember the Veterans Health Care Crisis?
Here's what Congress needs to do to push reform legislation over the final hump before campaign season hits.
Oversight
Boehner Defends Plans to Sue Obama Over Executive Power
Democrats call it an election-year ploy.
Nextgov
Pro-Russian Hackers Mug Key Ukrainian Bank
Cyber Berkut allegedly published customer data from PrivatBank, co-owned by the pro-government Dnipropetrovsk region's governor.
Nextgov
Syrian Electronic Army Spreads False Rumors of Israel Nuclear Leak
Pro-Assad hacktivists usurped the Israeli Army’s Twitter feed to post a potentially volatile message.
Retirement
OPM cuts retirement claims backlog
The Office of Personnel Management continued to reduce its retirement claims backlog in June, processing more claims in the month than it had forecast, according to the agency's latest progress report.
Employee Policy
OIG says USPS needs better oversight of travel card usage
U.S. Postal Service travel card coordinators need to more carefully monitor the purchases and cash advances employees charge to the cards, according to a report from the USPS Office of Inspector General.
Benefits
VA contacts 140,000 vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs late last week released its latest twice-monthly report on veterans' access to health care at VA facilities, and announced it had increased the number of individual vets it has contacted.
Management
USPS Will Shed 3,000 Employees by 2015, Through Retirements or Layoffs
Postmasters can receive one-time $10,000 payment.
Management
Veteran Dies in VA Hospital Cafeteria After Waiting 30 Minutes for an Ambulance
Cafeteria is just a five-minute walk from the facility's ER.
Management