News

Senators strike deal on border control bill

Pay & Benefits

Locality pay decision coming

How much will federal workers' locality pay be next year?

Pay & Benefits

Feds don’t need paid parental leave, OPM says

Federal agencies don’t need a new benefit offering paid leave to federal parents when they have a baby or adopt a child, a new Office of Personnel Management study says.

Management

New law reinstates burdensome reports

Defense

Marine deployment irks soldiers

The Army is either unable or unwilling to do its job. That’s the message some mid-grade officers are getting from the deployment of hundreds of Marines to landlocked Afghanistan this week.

News

CIA employee first American killed in combat in Afghanistan

CIA officer Johnny (Mike) Spann was killed in a prison riot at Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, the first U.S. official known to be killed in action inside the country since U.S. bombing began, the CIA said Wednesday.

Defense

Senate leader offers compromise on homeland security spending

Tech

Firms show strong interest in building new federal network

The General Services Administration said Wednesday that it received 167 responses from the private sector to a request for information on how the government could build GovNet, a private computer network for federal agencies that would be separate from the Internet.