Pay & Benefits
Pay Raise Malaise
Federal workers are up in arms over President Bush’s proposed 1.5 percent raise for civilian federal employees in his fiscal 2005 budget.
Management
OMB should fine-tune program evaluation strategy, panelists say
The Bush administration should refine its strategy for evaluating the performance of federal programs, panelists testified at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
Defense
Homeland security officials questioned over ricin intelligence
Lawmakers raised concerns Wednesday about the failure of officials at the Terrorist Threat Integration Center to warn Congress and other government agencies about the potential threat of a bioterrorism attack using the toxin ricin.
Tech
Rock the Vote
The Defense Department is not happy that a group of experts went very public with their concerns about its online voting experiment.
Defense