Pay & Benefits

Personnel leader sets deadlines for hiring reform

OPM director also readies work-life balance programs, including several at his own agency.

News

EPA feels like home to new administrator

In her second stint at the agency, Lisa Jackson talks about getting to work on climate change and water quality.

Pay & Benefits

Agency personnel chiefs adjust to the limelight

The federal workforce is shifting and growing at a fierce rate, and human capital chiefs are in the middle of it.

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Mediation

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Do We Need an Agriculture Department?

News

The Politics of Shea-Porter's Amendment

Defense

Defense personnel system boasts supporters

Pay-for-performance at the Pentagon has many detractors, but also a fair share of defenders.

Oversight

Acquisition chiefs brace for a busy year

Government's top procurement officials scramble to award unprecedented amounts of contract funds.

News

From Nextgov.com: Governmentwide contracts program will remain intact

GSA official says he was making a long-term projection when he told conference participants the agency would merge GWACs with its schedules program.

Defense

House passes fiscal 2010 Interior-Environment bill

The $32.3 billion measure matches Obama's request and tops the fiscal 2009 amount by $4.7 billion.

Oversight

Stimulus oversight board takes waste and fraud prevention steps

Panel is tackling potential problems on the front end by distributing checklists to agencies awarding Recovery Act contracts.

Defense

Leaders to fight own panel's decision to buy more F-22s

Defense chief has called more funding unnecessary particularly as the Air Force begins to buy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and relies more heavily on unmanned aerial vehicles.

Pay & Benefits

Endless Summer, Endless Questions

Providing some basic information and monitoring the rumor mill.

News

Union Strategy

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Is NSPS Necessary?

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Liveblogging the NSPS Review Board Hearing

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Masked Men (And Women)

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Pay

News

From Nextgov.com: VA says it's on schedule to process new education claims on time

New applications and systems are keeping the agency ahead of the incoming claims , but some worry demand may increase later in the summer, overwhelming processors.