Management
Panel urges Postal Service to consolidate
To improve its financial health, the Postal Service should consolidate its facilities and should consider outsourcing tasks “incidental” to delivering the mail, a nine-member commission appointed to study postal reform said Wednesday.
Defense
IRS official to head Homeland Security procurement
A senior procurement official with the Internal Revenue Service has been tapped to become procurement chief of the Homeland Security Department, IRS officials said Tuesday.
Management
Nine agencies earn higher management grades
In the third quarter of fiscal 2003, nine federal agencies moved up a notch on the Office of Management and Budget’s “traffic light” system for rating compliance with the president’s five-part management agenda.
Defense