News And Analysis

Recovery Architect

A Texas banker takes on the aftermath of the country’s greatest national disasters.

News And Analysis

Vetting Veterans

Advocacy groups fear that disability changes could skew compensation for service-related injuries.

Features

Running the Light

The Bush administration has used its traffic-light system to rate agency management since 2001. Now we evaluate the president’s progress.

Features

Managing Technology 2008

Get ready for tougher privacy rules, an Internet overhaul, more procurement oversight, and a focus on health data and tighter security.

Features

Technology Rush

Just because it blows you away on screen doesn’t mean it will help attract, hire and train the employees your agency needs.

Intelligence File

Spy Management 2.0

Rather than control private agents, why not act like them?

Political World

Dollars and Census

The national head count is about more than people—it’s also about federal money and power.

Editor's Notebook

Red, Yellow, Green

We give our own grades to President Bush’s management record.

News

Planning a Freeze

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News

Tattoos, Piercings and Disease

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News

Army Procurement Chief Moves On

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Oversight

OMB sets standards for contracting officials

Office of Federal Procurement Policy establishes training and competency requirements for contracting officer technical representatives.

Oversight

IG: Coal safety agency stinting on mine inspections

Report says Mine Safety and Health Administration's inspector force was sharply cut between 2002 and 2006.

Oversight

House Appropriations chair floats cutting earmarks further

Cuts could derail goal of completing work on two bills expected to pass next week.

Oversight

Wikipedia users burnish GSA administrator's image

User-edited page is mostly scrubbed of allegations that Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act.

Defense

Defense board sounds louder alarm about foreign software development

Report warns against risk of relying on software written overseas, calls for checking code and more U.S. software development.

Pay & Benefits

Davis urges IRS to clarify tax benefit for retired safety officers

Lawmaker says agency needs to define exactly who qualifies for benefits under a 2006 law.

Pay & Benefits

Two Weekends Left

That’s how much time you have to consider your health, dental and vision insurance choices for next year.