Pay & Benefits
CDC’s human capital plan overlooks contractors, GAO says
Agency told to include a growing outside workforce in strategy for globalized mission.
Oversight
EPA failed to comply with sole-source contracting rules, report finds
Inspector general says noncompetitive contracts lacked proper approval, market research.
Pay & Benefits
The Price of Public Service
There’s more to the federal pay reform debate than dollars and cents.
Defense
Senate panel slashes foreign visitor ID system
Appropriations committee, frustrated by delays, cuts US VISIT fiscal 2009 budget by nearly two-thirds.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: Census receives $210 million in emergency funding for 2010 count
The money will cover extra costs the bureau will incur due to its decision not to use handheld computers to support the decennial census.
Tech
Generation Y seeks more interaction with government online
Report says younger citizens rely on blogs and social networking tools for information.
Defense
Homeland Security awards data center contract to CSC
Contract, worth a potential of $390 million, is another step toward consolidation of department's 18 data centers.
Oversight
Push starts to stay contractors' tax-withholding provision
Opponents of a law requiring agencies to withhold 3 percent of payments to contractors beginning in 2011 are looking for a legislative vehicle to keep it at bay a while longer.
Defense
Pentagon’s top watchdog leaving post July 13
Claude Kicklighter will become director of the George Mason University School of Law’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Program.
Oversight
Most federal benefit programs use electronic payments, GAO reports
But less than half of the programs know what percentage of payments is issued using online methods.
Defense
Bush administration streamlines security clearance process
Executive order requires agencies to use common standards, reciprocal recognition.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: NIST issues guidelines to test agencies’ network security
Release is a "huge step forward" to make federal systems more secure and to improve FISMA.
News
Lawmakers seek House vote on reauthorization of electronic vetting system
Nearly 70,000 employers are enrolled in E-Verify, a voluntary program that they can use to check the immigration status of their workers.
Oversight
Ready or Not?
If Barack Obama can emulate Reagan and cross the acceptability threshold, he will not only win but win big.
Managing Technology
Rough and Tumble
Rugged computers would be more popular if makers would update them.
Viewpoint
Better Choices
Recruiting the next generation of public servants requires the right message and the right approach.
Management Matters - Advice And Dissent