Defense
Building security agency’s workforce plan questioned
Watchdog wonders how the Federal Protective Service will pay, hire and train new employees.
Oversight
Nonagenarian senator is helping keep holds alive
At 92, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., remains a formidable opponent of Senate rule changes.
Oversight
Protecting environment gets public support as priority
Fifty-six percent of survey respondents say the environment is more important than keeping energy prices low.
Editor's Notebook
Command Performance
Government’s top executives are front and center in implementing new priorities.
Features
Procurement Pressures
A flurry of policy changes creates an implementation headache for top acquisition officials.
Features
Finessing Finances
CFOs are on the hook for $100 billion in erroneous payments in 2009 and a host of other problems.
Features
Facing the Music
The government’s maestros of personnel must manage a series of high-profile challenges.
Features
Breaking the Chains
CISOs must bust out of bureaucratic ruts and rethink their approach to cyber threats
Oversight
Democrats' Wild Ride
House Democrats are in a much more vulnerable position than their Senate counterparts.
News
From Nextgov.com: NOAA launches public site to track Gulf oil disaster
GeoPlatform.com provides the same information regional coordinators use to respond to the disaster , including detailed geographic features, fisheries closures, wildlife observations and aerial imagery.
Oversight
Treasury kicks off effort to go paperless with federal benefits
Social Security, Office of Personnel Management and other benefits to be sent electronically.
Oversight
Administration wants input on small business concerns
Public meeting later this month will provide an opportunity to discuss giving small firms more government gigs.
Oversight
Procurement survey finds room for savings, process improvements
Contracting professionals suggest they can cut their budgets 30 percent by making acquisition operations more efficient.
Oversight
Democrats keep up push on BP liability
Lawmakers say eliminating the liability cap is necessary even if the oil company agrees to put $20 billion in an escrow account.
Pay & Benefits
Feds get time off to care for domestic partners, but not pets
Personnel agency clarifies that same- and opposite-sex partners qualify for certain leave programs, rejects a request to include companion animals.
Tech