Features

Flagging Fraud

Billions of dollars are lost each year to payment errors and bogus benefit claims, and agencies are turning to technology for help.

Editor's Notebook

The In Crowd

Working within and around the culture of group decision-making.

Features

Raising GSA

Business transformation is her specialty, and Martha Johnson is eager to steer her troubled agency on a path to excellence.

Features

Hiring Hackers

The federal government turns to the underworld of computer cowboys for help shoring up its cyber defenses.

Perspectives

Attacking Poverty

A new program holds new possibilities.

News

Excellence Conference

Management

Lead Like a Mom

News

New Feeling at TSA

News

We Pay Dead People

News

Opening line on 2012 pay raise: 1.6 percent

That's the key Labor Department indicator that has been used in recent years as the basis for military and civilian increases.

Pay & Benefits

Public-private pay gap is widening, data show

Salary council will meet again in mid-November to determine whether changes in locality pay areas and salary comparison methods are advisable.

Defense

House Oversight committee set for major re-emergence

Obama tormenter Rep. Darrell Issa is poised to chair powerful committee if GOP wins the House.

Defense

From Nextgov.com: Government taps an uneasy alliance with hackers

Agencies turn to the computer underworld for help shoring up their cyber defenses.

Pay & Benefits

Health coverage changes for feds could result in a robust open season

As premiums rise and more insurance plans leave FEHBP, federal employees could shop around more than usual this year.

Defense

Obama: 'We will not waver in our resolve'

President confirms bomb plot on two Jewish sites in Chicago.

Defense

Survey: Troops would back 'don't ask' repeal

Working group is analyzing the survey results and coordinating a plan to overturn the policy if Congress does revoke the law.

Oversight

Shutdown scenario appears unlikely

If they take control, House Republicans say they will not blunder into the same 1995 trap of closing the government.