Management

GSA to Trump: You're hired

Real estate magnate is selected to redevelop Old Post Office building in downtown Washington.

Pay & Benefits

Payroll conferees debate federal pay freeze

Democrats resist linking congressional and federal salary freezes.

News

Buck Stops With Managers on Hiring

At a Government Executive Leadership Briefing this morning, two chief human capital officers at major agencies had a fairly blunt message for federal managers: Get with the program on hiring reform.

Tech

NIH to get more Alzheimer's funding

Some 5 million Americans likely have the disease now and that figure could double by 2050.

News

GAO's Shrinking Staff

For the first time in agency's 75-year history, workforce drops below 3,000 employees.

Defense

Insiders: Pentagon's budget cuts are pragmatic for changing times

Experts say NATO should end combat role in Afghanistan in 2014 as scheduled.

Oversight

Play of the Day -- Was Mitt Romney the real star of the Super Bowl?

A daily roundup of late-night video.

Pay & Benefits

Senators express frustration over OPM backlog of retirement claims

In letter to OMB, three lawmakers from Virginia and Maryland seek new safeguard procedures.

Management

Has Ego Trumped Your Mission?

Lessons in transparency from the Komen Foundation fiasco.

Oversight

Improving Fortunes

President Obama's reelection prospects aren't looking as dim as they did a few months ago.

Pay & Benefits

Employee groups assail proposal to increase pension contributions

House committee will mark up bill Tuesday requiring feds to contribute a total of 1.5 percent to their defined benefit plans over three years beginning in 2013.

Management

Survey says only 2.3 percent of college students want federal jobs

Government should overhaul its pay system to help generate more interest in vacancies, nonprofit says.

Management

U.S. withdraws staff from Syrian embassy

Deteriorating Syrian security situation shows 'Assad is losing control of the country,' U.S. official says.

Management

Obama: We are moving 'in the right direction'

President touts his administration's accomplishments in the face of a gridlocked Congress during NBC interview.

Defense

Clinton: Bin Laden killing helps Obama deflect Romney critique

If the GOP candidate continues to call Obama an 'appeaser,' it could cost him the election, Clinton contends.

Oversight

Play of the Day -- Leno: Trump Broke His Promise to Gingrich

A daily roundup of late-night video.

Management

Gingrich defends lunar ambitions

GOP contender says talk in Florida of building a moon base "was not some slip."