News
August brings respectable returns in TSP funds
International investments continue to be strongest performers.
Pay & Benefits
Gone With the Windfall
The ins and outs of one of everybody’s favorite restrictions on benefits: the windfall elimination provision.
Tech
E-Gov at Five Years, Part Five: Pushing Forward
The Bush administration looks to the consolidation of back-office systems as the next step for e-government.
Tech
GSA extends deadline to sign up for ID card services
Agencies struggle with mandate to issue new smart identification cards and upgrade building and computer access systems by Oct. 27.
Management
IRS prepares to start private debt collection next week
House, Senate divided on whether to block the initiative.
Pay & Benefits
Bush declines to offer alternative pay raise plan
Inaction by Aug. 31 deadline gives de facto support for 1.7 percent across-the-board white-collar raise.
Defense
Congress may balk at DHS push to oust illegal Salvadorans
Agency may get more funds for detention centers in lieu of change in decades-old policy preventing deportation of most Salvadorans.
Pay & Benefits
Moving Ahead
The Bush administration isn’t waiting for legislation to expand pay-for-performance efforts in federal agencies.
Tech
E-Gov at Five Years, Part Four: Mixed Results
Winning interagency support for large projects has proved challenging.
Management
Procurement spending continues to rise
Agencies are spending money on contracts at historic levels, this year's list of the top 200 federal contractors shows, but a downturn looms.
Pay & Benefits
OPM reaffirms dental, vision contract awards
Blue Cross Blue Shield again shut out of dental contracts; new benefits on track to be offered in November.
Tech
Bush names VA chief information officer
Robert Howard, currently the acting CIO, would get what some believe is unprecedented authority for a VA technology chief.
Management