Total Information Awareness official responds to criticism

The second-ranking official on the Defense Department’s Total Information Awareness Project to predict terrorist attacks says critics of the effort have misinterpreted its goals and the nature of the technology it will use.

• Shane Harris
• January 31, 2003

Total Information Awareness official responds to criticism

• Shane Harris
• January 31, 2003

Counting beans

The math behind why your paychecks don't always jibe with the General Schedule pay scale.

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• January 30, 2003

OPM upgrades online training site

• Amelia Gruber
• January 30, 2003

Creation of Homeland Security Department labeled high-risk venture

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• January 30, 2003

Homeland Security agencies could get pass on new job competitions

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• January 30, 2003

INS extends deadline for foreign student tracking system

• Kellie Lunney
• January 30, 2003

Administration to order agencies to set limits on purchase cards

• Matthew Weinstock
• January 30, 2003

Ridge announces reorganization of border agencies

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge Thursday announced a major restructuring of the agencies that protect the nation’s borders.

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• January 30, 2003

OMB: Agencies fail to track program results

More than half of 234 federal programs analyzed by the Office of Management and Budget can’t show results for the dollars they spend.

• Matthew Weinstock
• January 30, 2003

Agencies slow to move from red to green in OMB performance ratings

Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels said Thursday that federal agencies are making slow but steady progress in improving the performance of their programs.

• Matthew Weinstock
• January 30, 2003

Executive Management Scorecard

• January 30, 2003

Senator continues to push for personnel reform

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• January 29, 2003

Congressional office projects $200 billion deficit

• Bill Ghent
• January 29, 2003

House to create Homeland Security appropriations subpanel

• Bill Ghent
• January 29, 2003

The worm that turned: A new approach to hacker hunting

Last weekend, federal agencies narrowly escaped damage from the latest computer "worm." In June 2001, a similar incident forever changed the way the feds hunt down the hackers who unleash such viruses.

• Shane Harris
• January 29, 2003

White House says seniors to keep Medicare choices

• Keith Koffler and Mark Wegner
• January 29, 2003

Bush orders FBI, CIA to build new terror intelligence office

• Shane Harris
• January 29, 2003

Point man

The Defense secretary's abrasive management style may not be popular, but his leadership in the war on terrorism is on the mark.

• National Journal
• January 28, 2003

GAO: New time and attendance systems efficient, but require oversight

• Amelia Gruber
• January 28, 2003