News
HUD official discusses department’s role in Katrina recovery
Plan to rebuild low-income housing stock is a work in progress, assistant secretary for public and Indian housing says.
Defense
Defense business modernization still a work in progress
Department has completely satisfied only one of six requirements in 2005 law, GAO says.
News
Transportation IG to identify pork available for Katrina relief
Inspectors search highway accounts for earmarks that Congress could redirect to damaged roads and bridges on Gulf Coast.
News
Senator eyes unspent Iraq funds for hurricane reconstruction
Additional offsets for recovery could come in form of across-the-board cuts to fiscal 2006 appropriations.
Tech
OMB: Agency information sharing key in Internet's technical upgrade
Agencies have until Feb. 15 to submit their first transition plans for shift to Internet protocol version 6, or IPv6.
Defense
House panel sets up border security floor vote next week
Bill likely to pass full House, but unlikely to gain traction in Senate; Democrats decry lack of guest worker program.
Defense
FEMA officials: Military delayed Superdome evacuation
Agency official in New Orleans said he constantly had to "rein in" Defense officials who wanted to take control of relief operations.
Pay & Benefits
Unions rally against personnel changes as Pentagon issues new details
As public, private sector unions protest in Washington, Defense officials issue handbook on performance-based raises.
Defense
More Border Patrol agents to be deployed to southern border
Homeland Security says move is part of a comprehensive strategy to curb illegal immigration.
News
Rift on Katrina relief, bird flu complicates Defense spending negotiations
Key appropriator from Mississippi wants more than double the $17.1 billion in hurricane aid proposed by the White House.
Tech
Teleworking increases across government
OPM survey shows that nearly 19 percent of eligible employees used the alternate work arrangement in 2004.
Pay & Benefits