Defense

Agencies craft policies for dealing with ‘severe’ terror threat

Federal executives across the country are developing policies to help them decide when to close federal offices and how best to protect their employees if the nation’s threat level is raised to red.

Management

Feds satisfied with pay, but not with management

Most federal employees are satisfied with their salaries, but they hold their leaders in low esteem, a new survey of 100,000 government workers has found.

Management

OMB weighs changes to job competition process

The Bush administration is contemplating wide-ranging changes to rules that allow federal jobs to be directly outsourced to private companies, Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Angela Styles told a Senate panel on Wednesday.