Tech

Bush selects career civil servant as new e-gov leader

President Bush on Wednesday announced that he plans to nominate Karen Evans, the Energy Department’s chief information officer, as the federal government’s technology chief.

Defense

Air marshals depart TSA, join law enforcement bureau

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced Tuesday that the federal air marshals program will move from the Transportation Security Administration to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Defense

CIA effort to beef up recruiting begins to pay off

The CIA’s accelerated efforts to hire spies and analysts since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are starting to show results.

Management

Report spawns rethinking about NASA's reliance on contractors

The report on the space shuttle Columbia disaster is raising serious questions about NASA's heavy reliance on contractors to perform its mission.

Management

EEOC scorecard to rate agencies’ anti-discrimination efforts

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will rate agencies’ anti-discrimination efforts using a scorecard as part of a broader plan to hold agencies more accountable for discrimination in the federal workplace, EEOC officials announced Tuesday.

Management

GAO: Agencies still wasting space

Management

Longtime AFGE member elected to lead union

Delegates of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, elected a new president Wednesday night, ousting two-term president Bobby Harnage.

Management

Los Alamos whistleblower wins large settlement

The University of California has agreed to a $930,000 settlement with a former investigator who last fall drew attention to management problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.