Pay & Benefits
Playing Defense
The issue of military compensation reform continues to percolate amid talk of Defense budget cuts.
Defense
Pentagon explains Panetta’s warning that sequestration would cost 1.5 million jobs
Officials plugged some numbers into an established forecasting model and fed the data to a simulation of the U.S. economy hit with across-the-board spending cuts.
News
Lawmakers announce bipartisan plan to reform Postal Service
Legislation could save USPS $8 billion a year, sponsors say.
Defense
Flaws in SEC document-shredding policy affirmed by watchdog
Whistleblower’s charges of inconsistency are borne out, but IG finds no basis for prosecution.
Defense
TSA mum on missing deadline for 100 percent cargo screening
One year after planes nearly shipped printer-bombs stateside, feds don't comply with law to inspect all parcels aboard international passenger flights.
Pay & Benefits
House approves bill giving flags to families of deceased federal employees
Civilian Service Recognition Act to honor public servants killed in the line of duty passes unanimously.
Pay & Benefits
Panel considers bill to shrink federal workforce through attrition
House committee is set to mark up Rep. Mick Mulvaney's measure to reduce government workforce by 10 percent over three years.
Oversight
Energy stimulus money mired in investigations, bad management, IG says
The federal government’s efforts to jump-start the clean-energy economy are stymied.
News
Obama at Key Bridge: Stalling infrastructure bill 'makes absolutely no sense'
The legislation is expected to be blocked in the Senate.
Oversight
OMB procurement chief leaving administration
Dan Gordon is taking a post at the George Washington University Law School.
Defense
Obama orders Fort Monroe preservation as a way to create jobs
The Virginia site became an army outpost in 1819 and closed in September.
Defense
U.S. scores some wins but Taliban winning the propaganda war
White House is fighting two battles in Afghanistan: one against the Taliban, and one against the public perception at home that the U.S. is losing.
News
Play of the Day -- Late-night spoofs: Did Cain just sexually harass himself?
A daily roundup of late-night video.
Defense
Panetta expects half of defense cuts to come from weapons programs
The rest could come from operating more efficiently, a decrease in troops, and trimming personnel costs like health care.
Management