Pay & Benefits
Part-Time Rules, Part One
The first in a two-part series on the ramifications of easing into retirement by cutting back on your work hours.
Tech
OMB report shows slight increase in IT security awareness
Agencies still need higher quality measurements to assess computer system security levels, report states.
News
Panel issues recommendations to help strained Guard
Commission suggests improving communications between the Defense and Homeland Security departments on Guard requirements and other matters.
Tech
Science agency chastised for its spending priorities
Cybersecurity doesn’t make list of National Science Foundation priorities.
Defense
Military chiefs defend veterans' care, shipbuilding costs
Most problems with treatment occur once the severely wounded have left the services and are waiting to get into other treatment programs, officials say.
News
U.S., Canadian executives share concerns about performance pay
Senior federal executives group and its Canadian counterpart join forces to examine performance management systems.
Defense
DHS lacks timetable for monitoring visitor departures
Exit tracking component of US VISIT “not ready for prime time yet,” program official says.
Management
Lawmaker urges higher pay, bonuses for acquisition workers
Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., says “all bets are off” regarding the administration’s management agenda in the next two years.
Defense
Democrats want to redirect war aid
Afghanistan needs more resources, particularly for reconstruction, House speaker says.
News
NASA's budget might delay space shuttle replacement
United States is headed for a more than four-year stretch where it will need to rely on other countries for transport to space station.
Defense