Oversight
Coast Guard seeks to hire more contract managers
Administration’s budget request supports service’s modernization plans.
Oversight
Obama team outlines its management agenda
Priorities include revamping Bush’s system of evaluating programs and hiring “several hundred thousand” civil servants.
Pay & Benefits
OPM delays promotion rule again
Union calls for preservation of time-in-grade regulation, while nonprofit says it could create disparities among pay systems.
Defense
House looks to finish supplemental spending bill
Measure provides $96.7 billion, most of which would go toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Defense
Forward Observer: Man On A Mission
Congressman is pushing legislative language that would put a safety net under service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries.
News
From Nextgov.com: Technology limitations hamper SEC enforcement efforts
GAO reports outdated systems limit effectiveness of agency’s enforcement division.
Oversight
Administration boosts funding to replace private debt collectors
Budget proposes an increase of $332 million for tax enforcement compliance program.
Oversight
Administration renews effort to dispose of excess property
Proposal would allow agencies to keep all money from the sale of unwanted property.
Oversight
Personnel chief isn’t waiting on Congress to begin hiring reforms
Many of the provisions in a bill to streamline the federal job application process can be accomplished administratively, OPM director tells lawmakers.
Oversight
Orszag: More must be done to evaluate programs
Budget chief says more data systems and protocols for statistical analyses are needed.
Oversight
Lawmakers begin to push back against proposed program cuts
Legislators agree with the reductions in general, but don't want to see programs that benefit their constituents eliminated.
Oversight
Obama spending plan for union monitoring office drawing fire
Budget increases funding for the other offices within the Labor Department's Employment Standards Administration, which oversees whether employers are complying with wage and hour laws.
Defense
Appropriations panel approves fiscal 2009 war supplemental
Most of the money would support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but some is aimed at combating swine flu.
Pay & Benefits