Oversight
Chief of the Year: Information
Roger Baker, chief information officer, Veterans Affairs Department.
Defense
Pentagon tries to break from past on pay, personnel reform
Union and agency cooperation is critical to rebounding from NSPS’ demise, witnesses tell senators.
Oversight
Immigration services agency seeks to raise benefits processing fees
USCIS faces a $200 million shortfall; also wants a boost in appropriations.
News
From Nextgov.com: Actor Kevin Costner promotes oil clean up tech on Hill
His company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, has partnered with BP to deploy the machine, but funding and regulatory obstacles have prevented Costner from supplying the device to government, he says.
Defense
House could take up Senate supplemental
Majority leader says chamber might bypass a House Appropriations Committee markup of the spending measure and consider the Senate-approved bill.
Oversight
Salazar: Oil drilling hiatus may be shorter
Interior chief left open the possibility that a six-month moratorium on deep-water oil and gas drilling may not last that long.
Oversight
Lawmaker requests Hatch Act probe of top White House officials
California Republican asks the Office of Special Counsel to investigate alleged attempts to dissuade senatorial candidates from running in the primaries.
Oversight
USAID to create new policy organization
Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning will decide where to focus the agency's limited resources.
Management
The Path to Partnership 2.0
Agency and union officials should draw on lessons from the Clinton years.
Oversight
OMB wants to see plans for reducing improper payments
Fiscal 2012 budget submissions must include a strategy to recoup funds wasted through fraud and error.
News
From Nextgov.com: Defense unable to track deployed troops' use of psychiatric drugs
The Military Health System cannot identify the soldiers taking prescribed drugs for mental illness, raising the risk they could experience adverse drug interactions when treated for battlefield wounds.
Defense