Oversight

Government reform groups unveil transition plan

Strong performance measurements and attention to workforce are called key to the next administration’s agenda.

News

Bush signs funding bill in final hours of the fiscal year

Continuing resolution to keep agencies running through March includes a 3.9 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees.

Oversight

Senate expected to pass $700 billion proposal with ease

The revised bill would raise FDIC coverage amounts from $100,000 to $250,000 for one year.

Management

What’s Your Timeline?

Everyone is on a different clock. The trick is getting them to work together.

Features

Great Expectations

Sen. Barack Obama has outlined a plan for change, but reforming the bureaucracy requires more than words.

Features

Russian Roulette

A small war on Europe’s periphery raises big questions about the Pentagon’s modernization priorities.

Features

Hidden Talent

Removing obstacles for workers with disabilities is about more than ramps and readers—it’s about tapping the skills agencies need.

Defense

ADVICE+DISSENT: Intelligence File Set in Stone

As the Bush era winds down, spy masters leave their mark.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

What’s Your Timeline?

Everyone is on a different clock. The trick is getting them to work together.

Managing Technology

What’s Mine Is . . . Mine

Managing Technology Information sharing can help agencies coordinate strategy, but only if departments relinquish ownership.

Political World

Minding the Hatch Act

Feds can participate in campaign activities as long as they don’t cross the line.

Viewpoint

A Beneficial Union

Better technology combined with open labor relations can cut the cost of official time.

Viewpoint

Hanging On

Many executives would be willing to defer retirement.

Viewpoint

Making Reform Stick

A management agenda by any other name should build on what works.

Editor's Notebook

The Vision Thing

Barack Obama thinks big, and wants to leave the management details to others.

News And Analysis

Mood Manager

Homeland Security’s new HR chief has his work cut out for him as morale hits bottom.

News And Analysis

Earmark Offensive

Army major launches assault on backroom contracting deals in wartime.

News And Analysis

Money Maze

Most agencies have failed at building financial management systems, but HHS may have found a better way.

Perspective

Into the Woods

Conservation leaders battle “nature-deficit disorder.”