Defense
Labor Department to fly solo on veterans' employment complaints
Pilot project dividing jurisdiction over federal sector complaints between Labor and Office of Special Counsel ends inconclusively.
Pay & Benefits
Changes for 2008
A look at annual changes in Social Security, Medicare and federal retirement benefits programs.
Oversight
Administration faces big challenge in records preservation
As deadline looms, White House and National Archives gauge progress.
Oversight
Taxpayer advocate renews concerns about private debt collection
Calls again for an end to program, deeming it a financial failure and a danger to taxpayers’ rights.
Defense
In reversal, Pentagon may send Marines to Afghanistan
Troops would be deployed to head off anticipated Taliban offensive.
Oversight
Registration fees eyed as funding source for food safety
Consumer groups generally oppose FDA user fees because they create the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Defense
Panel urges DHS to prepare for presidential transition
Task force believes the most vulnerable time for the United States is 30 days before the change in administrations.
Defense
Q&A: Public diplomacy at the Pentagon
An interview with Michael Doran, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for support to public diplomacy.
Pay & Benefits
Career official becomes deputy TSA administrator
Gale Rossides will implement many of the workforce plans she designed as associate administrator.
Pay & Benefits
Honest Evaluations
The key to pay for performance is providing meaningful reviews of employees' work -- and giving them the opportunity to improve.
Oversight
IRS incorrectly claimed security issues had been corrected
GAO finds several information security weaknesses reported as mitigated actually weren’t.
Defense
Nebraska Senator to continue push for troop withdrawal
Ben Nelson, D-Neb., says "mission transition" proposal has bipartisan support.
Oversight
Pentagon takes another hit for interagency contracting practices
Defense inspector general reports that contracts arranged though Veterans Affairs failed to follow proper regulations.
Pay & Benefits
Panelists debate public service academy proposal
Critics say tax dollars could be more wisely spent on scholarships to service-minded students.
Defense