Management

Pentagon retools plans to privatize utilities at military bases

The Defense Department is retooling its plans to privatize utilities at military bases across the country after initial attempts to turn the systems over to contractors failed.

Management

House committee votes to abolish immigration agency

The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to replace the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service with two new Justice Department bureaus.

Management

Alternative to traditional job competitions emerges

Federal employees who face the prospect of losing their jobs to private firms might be able to keep them under a new process developed by the Interior Department that may spread to other agencies.

Defense

FBI valued career advancement over security, report says

FBI management has fostered a culture in which agents view internal security measures as bureaucratic and security investigation duties as a threat to career advancement, a special commission set up in the wake of the Robert Hanssen spying case said Friday.