Pay & Benefits
Still Pushing
Short-term disability benefits and electronic retirement records remain high priorities for OPM Director Linda Springer.
Oversight
Mine safety agency under fire for slow compliance with 2006 law
Watchdog agency report cites failure to routinely assess inspectors, consistently perform emergency simulation drills or regularly educate staff on new technologies.
Pay & Benefits
Union negotiates foreign language pay for customs, border officers
Agreement comes as election for representation of more than 20,000 non-Border Patrol employees remains in dispute.
Defense
Resource shortages not limited to reserve units
The increased funding provided by the normal defense budgets and war-related supplemental spending bills is not meeting active-duty needs either, Defense officials say.
Oversight
Study complicates debate on women’s procurement set-aside
Analysis finds that depending on how you measure, women-owned businesses are underrepresented in 87 percent of industries, or none.
Defense
Report: DHS unit fails to fully disclose use of personal information
To comply with privacy laws, agency must detail how data collected from international air travelers is used, GAO says.
Defense
Bill would bar contractors from running Defense programs
Provision in Defense authorization bill would curb use of "lead systems integrators."
Defense
Pentagon operations director named 'war czar'
Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute takes job that a number of retired generals turned down earlier this spring.
Management
All Together Now
The workplace lines have blurred for government, for-profits and nonprofits.
Tech
Lawmaker asks Defense not to block YouTube, MySpace
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., says it would be better for the military to ration limited Internet resources.
Oversight
Gonzales: Departing aide played lead role in firings
Attorney general says he structured the Justice Department so that the No. 2 official acted as the chief operating officer.
Oversight