Oversight
Senator urges caution in consolidating contracting databases
Procurement officials must be sure to consider the end user of the streamlined database and build in adequate oversight, panel chairwoman says.
Pay & Benefits
Federal employees’ health insurance premiums to rise 8.8 percent
Personnel officials have started meeting with major insurance carriers to explore ways to drive down prices.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Defense to allow troops, family members to use social network sites
Soon-to-be-released memo lifts bans on the use of Facebook, Twitter and other sites, saying the tools provide an information advantage for the military and its allies.
Oversight
Treasury pushes for resolution authority
Obama administration ramps up effort to pass legislation to revamp the nation's financial regulatory system.
Pay & Benefits
More senior executives are earning bigger bonuses
Ratings are to be expected for government's elite corps, says Bill Bransford of the Senior Executives Association.
Oversight
Watchdog attorney is likely choice to run procurement policy shop
Daniel Gordon, deputy general counsel at GAO, reportedly will be nominated as government’s top acquisition official.
Defense
Forward Observer: Obama the Pragmatist
The president is unlikely to give his generals in Afghanistan everything they want.
Defense
Senate has full plate with Defense and stopgap spending bills
Continuing resolution would fund most agencies at fiscal 2009 levels, but would include a boost for veterans health and the 2010 census.
News
The Short List: Key Federal Management Jobs
An update on President Obama’s nominees and potential picks for top government management positions.
Pay & Benefits
Bill could offset Medicare premium increases for federal retirees
Legislation affects those in the Civil Service Retirement System who do not receive Social Security payments.
Oversight
Lawmaker battles distrust of census
House Republican's efforts aim in part to fight an undercurrent of suspicions about the government's collection of personal data.
Oversight
Groups hail nomination of IP coordinator
Victoria Espinel, who is expected to easily win confirmation, previously served as assistant trade representative for intellectual property.
Defense
Wars stretch Army and Marine Corps particularly thin
The demand for soldiers in Afghanistan is rising faster than the supply is falling in Iraq.
Defense
Border fence stalls fiscal 2010 spending bill
Differences over funding for fencing along the Southwest border and the construction of a biodefense facility are holding up the Homeland Security appropriations bill.
Oversight