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
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
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