Editor's Notebook

Overlooking oversight

Management

Effectiveness vs. efficiency

Marketplace

The keys to better business

Personal Technology

E-photos made easy

Viewpoint

Outsourcing pits mission vs. money

Political World

Revolving door woes

Magazine

Black hole

Magazine

Permitting uncontrolled costs

Magazine

Natural wonder

Magazine

The perils of preservation

Magazine

The problem solver

Magazine

Raising pay

Magazine

When money talks, fewer walk

Magazine

The art of pay banding

Magazine

The IRS hopes to hit pay dirt

News

Most Bush administration applicants file resumes online

Ninety percent of the 60,000 people who have applied for Bush administration jobs have filed their applications online, the White House director of presidential personnel said Thursday.

Management

Pentagon says it uses 700,000 service contractors

The Defense Department hires the equivalent of more than 700,000 employees annually to perform tasks under service contracts ranging from mowing grass at military bases to testing key weapon systems, according to a new Pentagon report.