Management

Major changes in store for NASA

Privatizing the space shuttle program is one of several management reforms the Bush administration is considering for NASA, President Bush’s pick to lead the space agency told Congress Friday.

Defense

Pentagon auditors fail peer review

Pay & Benefits

Court rejects TSP board’s $350 million lawsuit

The board that runs the federal Thrift Savings Plan cannot sue a contractor over a failed computer system modernization, a federal judge has ruled. The board is appealing the ruling.

Management

Effort to adjust federal staffing overseas stalled

The government has little to show for a two-year effort aimed at “rightsizing” the federal workforce serving overseas, the General Accounting Office has found. But the Bush administration may force a reshuffling of civil servants abroad in coming years.

Management

New law reinstates burdensome reports

Management

High court takes a pass on reverse discrimination case

The Supreme Court Tuesday abandoned its plan to rule on a major challenge to federal agencies' affirmative action programs.