Pay & Benefits

Long-Term Open Season

A look at how many feds have signed up for long-term care insurance during this year’s open season -- and why they did.

News

Never Mind the Missing $6 Billion

News

Republicans, Democrats trade barbs on deficit reduction

Both sides are questioning the other’s sincerity about reaching agreement by the Thanksgiving deadline.

News

Government rapidly depleting Deepwater Horizon cleanup fund, GAO finds

Continued BP spill relief may result in lack of money for future spills.

Defense

Pentagon's embattled personnel official resigns

Clifford Stanley plans to leave the Pentagon within the next two weeks.

Defense

Defense cyber chief: The cloud is the military's next Internet

Computers and programs must be linked to a central, remote environment that aligns security departmentwide, Gen. Keith Alexander says.

Defense

Mail delivery to service members in Iraq winds down

The Postal Service will not accept parcels addressed to military post offices there after Nov. 17.

News

Fraud continues in small business preference programs

Agencies struggle to monitor contractors that misrepresent qualifications in self-certifications.

News

The Week in Comments: Retirement, the deficit and COLAs hit feds

The best in reader reaction to recent articles.

News

House votes to repeal contractor withholding tax

Legislation's Senate prospects remain uncertain.

News

Supreme Court could decide to look at health care law on Nov. 10

If the court chooses to hear one or more cases, the oral arguments would likely be scheduled for early spring, Wall Street Journal reports.

Tech

Freddie Mac CEO to resign

Charles Haldeman Jr., who has helmed Freddie for just over two years, says he will depart 'some time in the coming year.'

News

Play of the Day -- Letterman: After fall in polls, Perry executes his pollster

A daily roundup of late-night video.

Pay & Benefits

Super Secretive

What’s the latest on deficit reduction proposals related to federal pay and benefits? You’d never guess from watching the public super committee hearings.

News

Hardly a Cubicle

News

A New Low for Trust Numbers

News

Veterans Affairs CIO: Tablet computers could transform health care

Department kicked off a test of 1,000 Apple iPad tablet computers on Oct. 1 and eventually could deploy up to 100,000.

Defense

Defense needs to improve efforts to prevent sexual harassment, GAO says

Auditors call for leadership accountability and enforcement of current policies.