Pay & Benefits
Bush administration expanding personnel reform quickly
Senior personnel officials say that there is no benefit in waiting for results from changes at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
Management
DHS scolded on financial accountability
Forty-five days after deadline to appoint Senate-confirmed chief financial officer, no candidates have been interviewed.
Defense
Defense authorization bill in limbo while Senate debates judicial nominees
Bill expected to go to Senate floor by July 4.
Tech
House panel again tells agencies: Increase telework or lose funds
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., continues to push measure to withhold $5 million from agencies that fail to boost the number of employees who telecommute.
Defense
Lobbyists, legislators still await full release of BRAC info
Defense Department officials generated hundreds of thousands of pages of documents when making their list of base-closure recommendations.
Management
Senate committee approves measure that tweaks FOIA
Measure is a companion bill to broader legislation to overhaul the Freedom of Information Act.
News
OMB directed U.S. Mint to reopen job competition
A year and a half after first announcing a forklift operator competition, agency is still looking for private bidders.
Pay & Benefits
DHS secretary urges swift personnel overhaul
Michael Chertoff also urges full funding for the pay-for-performance system.
Pay & Benefits
Union opposes draft civil service changes
NTEU says governmentwide civil service changes are premature and misguided.
Defense
Homeland security officials set to implement organizational changes
DHS chief set to announce actions to be taken as a result of review of all of department's operations.
Defense
Three Homeland Security panel members mull run for chairmanship
Slot will open up if if Senate confirms current panel chairman Christopher Cox, R-Calif., to serve as the next Securities and Exchange Commission chief.
Defense
White House redactions on tanker lease deal report raise ire
Leaders on Senate Armed Services Committee say administration withheld too much information from e-mails and other documents.
Tech
FBI names new chief of information management project
Agency's CIO disputes reports that new system, designed to replace failed Virtual Case File project, will cost nearly $800 million.
Pay & Benefits