Oversight
Obama: ‘Only government’ can solve nation’s ills
Plan for huge effort to jump-start the economy includes upgrades to 75 percent of federal buildings.
Oversight
Outgoing Bush team sums up management progress
OMB releases three reports, including a final traffic-light-style quarterly management score card and a compilation of performance snapshots from 24 agencies.
Defense
Panel finds erosion of nuclear deterrence mission widespread at Defense
Problems go well beyond recent Air Force failures, but report says Navy has maintained credible stewardship.
Defense
Dems weigh adding Homeland Security funds to stimulus
Sources say Coast Guard, TSA and Customs could get hundreds of millions of dollars.
Oversight
New chief performance officer to demand results from feds
Nancy Killefer has a reputation for overhauling bureaucracies and improving efficiency.
Pay & Benefits
Feds indicate mixed satisfaction on workforce survey
Results point to performance management as an area ripe for improvement, with work-life balance also a concern.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers renew battle against pension provisions
Newly introduced bill continues long-running effort to reverse two measures that cut into benefits for employees in older retirement system.
Pay & Benefits
FBI seeks more than 3,000 new staff in historic hiring blitz
Recruitment targeted at professionals with foreign language, technology and engineering skills, among others.
Oversight
Environmentalists want EPA to regulate coal waste
Tennessee spill highlights vulnerabilities at dozens of other coal-fired power plants, activists say.
Defense
Lawmakers discuss adding military construction funds to stimulus package
Estimates for how much money will be attached range from $8 billion to $20 billion.
Defense
Senate GOP begins review of Panetta
Republicans are concerned Obama's CIA pick doesn't have a handle on intelligence failures leading up to the Iraq war.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Justice
Federal judges make far less money than their private sector counterparts, and the problem is likely to get worse without intervention.
Tech