Management
Be Realistic About Your Successes and Failures
It’s far too easy to take credit for success and blame others for failure.
Nextgov
General Dynamics Completes CSRA Buy
General Dynamics finalized its acquisition of IT contractor CSRA for $9.7 billion.
Nextgov
What Are You Looking At? Social Security Wants To Know
The agency is looking for eye-tracking technologies to improve the user experience on its websites.
Management
Judge Rules Commerce Cannot Charge Exorbitant Fees to Access Immigration Data
The department had been trying to charge $16,770 for the most recent year of data.
Management
Analysis: These Are The VA’s 3 Main Problems – Leadership Isn’t One Of Them
Privatization will aggravate, not solve VA's problems.
Management
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
Route Fifty
Federal Aid Could Be Harder to Come by in the Next Recession
It’s a factor state and local policy makers may want to account for.
Nextgov
The Pentagon is Letting Hackers Loose on Its Travel Management System
Ethical hackers will scour the platform for security gaps in the department’s fifth bug bounty program.
Management
VA’s Interim Leadership Faces Legitimacy Questions
Whether former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin was fired or quit has big implications for the Trump administration—and for veterans.
Oversight
Former FLRA Employees Decry Plan to Close Regional Offices
Letter to senators says shuttering Dallas, Boston offices would “reduce the credibility and effectiveness” of the independent agency.
Management
What Trump Is Getting Wrong About the Postal Service and Amazon
The president appears to have his facts wrong.
Management
Could Trump Actually Use Military Funding for His Border Wall?
The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction.
Nextgov
Social Media Screening Won’t Slow Down the Visa Process, State Department Says
The department wants to screen five years of social media and email from all visa applicants but doesn’t expect longer processing time “for most visa cases.”
Route Fifty
Violent Acts in Public Places Fuel Interest in Secure Design
But an architect who designs civic buildings urges a measured response instead of creating a “ballistic cocoon.”
Nextgov
OPM Says Agencies Have One Year To ID Cyber Workforce Gaps
The Office of Personnel Management started the clock Monday for agencies to identify, report and mitigate cybersecurity workforce shortfalls.
Pay & Benefits
Most TSP Funds Take Another Tumble in March
Continued market volatility has begun to pull portfolios underwater for 2018.
Tech
After London, How Lasers Will Play a Role in Detecting Chemical Attacks Sooner
A new technique can detect trace elements of dangerous chemicals in extremely small doses, a breakthrough of relevance to the horror show playing out in Salisbury, U.K.
Management
The U.S. Just Found a New Way to Delay Visa Applications
Previous social-media vetting targeted a sliver of travelers to the U.S.—about 65,000. The new measures would cover nearly 15 million people.
Management
What Happens When Networking Replaces Friendship
The erosion of friendship by friendly networking is no longer just for the rich and powerful.
Oversight