Management Matters - Advice And Dissent
Better Choices
Here’s a new way of thinking about government programs.
Managing Technology
Forget Something?
Offering security training isn’t enough to curtail breaches—employees must follow through.
News And Analysis
Tracking Contractors
Small business program relies too heavily on honesty and self-reporting, some say.
News And Analysis
Taking Off
The United States and China have forged a mutually beneficial partnership in aviation.
News And Analysis
The Softer Side of War
The Pentagon turns to academia to foster cultural awareness on the front lines.
Features
Speeding Security
The TSA operation in Albuquerque finds that a focus on customer service leads to happier travelers—and improved security.
Features
A Shared Vision
The Army Corps of Engineers is using reconstruction contracts as an opportunity to help bolster women’s role in the Iraqi economy.
Features
Following the Money
Understanding how terrorists finance their operations is key to predicting and thwarting attacks.
Features
Oversight & Out
Congressional mandates are making life difficult for federal contractors, and some could head for the door.
Oversight
OPM suspension of electronic retirement calculator blamed on contractor shortcomings
In a recent round of testing, agency says, only five of 61 functions passed.
Pay & Benefits
Lawmakers discuss expanding locality pay to areas covered by COLAs
Senators and federal employee groups cite need to keep retirement payments competitive, improve recruiting.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: IRS reports slight increase in e-filing rate
Agency has four years to hike the percentage of electronically filed tax returns it receives to meet a congressional requirement.
Oversight
Nonprofit group helps contractors navigate new ethics rules
A 134-page document provides guidance to firms that need assistance complying with federal regulations.
Defense
Newly appointed Afghanistan IG lacks necessary funding
The office exists only on paper, until Congress resolves issues with supplemental war funding requests.
Pay & Benefits
Myth Busting
Setting the record straight about some misunderstood aspects of federal retirement.
Defense
Marine general lays groundwork for unprecedented change
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright has a record of conceptualizing vast bureaucratic reforms -- and actually accomplishing them.
Oversight