Commerce, Treasury step up contracting efforts in Iraq

The Commerce and Treasury Departments are stepping up their efforts to help companies get contracts in Iraq, despite concerns about limits on which countries can bid for the contracts and criticism that laws issued under Saddam Hussein’s regime to prevent government workers from unionizing remain on the books.

• Chris Strohm
• December 11, 2003

Former e-government officials favor governmentwide plan

• Ted Leventhal
• December 11, 2003

First special rates settlement checks in the mail

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 10, 2003

Forest Service defends effort to outsource analyst jobs

• Amelia Gruber
• December 10, 2003

Air traffic controllers agree to two-year contract extension

• Chris Strohm
• December 10, 2003

Democrats unveil plan to increase troop strength

House Democrats are fueling the longstanding debate over the demand to increase U.S. military troop numbers with new legislation that would increase Army, Air Force and Marine Corps end strength by 8 percent over the next five years.

• Amy Svitak
• December 10, 2003

Unions rally against administration job competition policies

• Amelia Gruber
• December 10, 2003

Customs officials may use sensors to test containers

• Greta Wodele
• December 10, 2003

MSPB to close offices, lay off employees

• Shawn Zeller
• December 10, 2003

U.S. bans non-coalition countries from Iraq reconstruction contracts

• Shane Harris
• December 10, 2003

Slow to Share

Agencies aren't moving quickly enough to share information about potential terrorist threats, an influential group argued last week.

• Shane Harris
• December 9, 2003

'Losers' in 2004 base funding could be vulnerable to closure

• Amy Svitak and Richard H.P. Sia
• December 9, 2003

Postal Service runs $3.9B surplus; White House backs reforms

• Tom Shoop
• December 9, 2003

For a second year, appropriations work will wait until January

• Peter Cohn
• December 9, 2003

HHS completes e-grants site

• Amelia Gruber
• December 9, 2003

Agencies get failing grades on cybersecurity

Federal efforts to secure critical computer systems and sensitive information are improving, but more than half of all agencies are still doing very poorly at the task, lawmakers said Tuesday.

• Chris Strohm
• December 9, 2003

Patent office chief to depart; deputy may be in line for job

• Drew Clark
• December 9, 2003

Pentagon to get authority to finish stalled job competitions

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• December 9, 2003

President gives federal employees extra Christmas holiday

• Shawn Zeller
• December 9, 2003

Winners in military construction bill hope to stave off base closures

The fiscal 2004 military construction spending bill President Bush recently signed into law represents a multimillion-dollar investment in the future of military facilities around the country, possibly making them less vulnerable to the Pentagon's next round of base closing decisions.

• Amy Svitak and Richard H.P. Sia
• December 8, 2003