Management

One Chart Shows One Big Problem With Defense Contracting: Competition Is Declining

The department in 2010 began setting goals for awarding more work competitively, but it's never been able to hit its targets.

Management

Writing Tips From the CIA’s Ruthless Style Manual

Strunk & White, it turns out, were CIA sources.

News

How To Ruin Your Political Career: Run a Federal Agency

Apparently there’s no greater sin than turning into an “administration lifer.”

Management

Can Government Adopt the P&G Philosophy?

VA nominee fostered a performance culture at Procter & Gamble.

Management

Resetting Homeland Security: One Department, One Vision

Unity of effort promises to repair a decade of disjointed planning and budgets.

Nextgov

Why the Government Is Probably About to Go on a Spending Spree

Agencies usually buy 39 percent of their IT in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year.

Nextgov

DEA Anticipates Awarding Contract for Sensitive Justice Cloud

Potential savings are a key motivator for the drug-fighting agency's move.

Management

DHS Headquarters Consolidation At Risk of Getting Even More Behind Schedule

Lawmakers look to slash funding for the project; House appropriators would cut more than Senate.

Management

At NIH, Biomedical Research Is Enough to Make You Break Into Song

The Common Fund celebrates 10 years of transformative science.

Management

The Most Valuable Keywords to Have on a Tech Resume

At every education level, jobs requiring STEM skills in the US take far more time and money to fill than just about anything else.

Management

How to Remember All Your Passwords and Keep Them Safe

For anyone who’s been a web user for a significant amount of time, the number of such accounts that require passwords is high, unmanageable even.

Management

Forget Hobby Lobby—This Case Could Wreck Obamacare

A ruling is expected any day now in a case that could tear the Affordable Care Act apart.

Management

What's With This 'Obama Is Backing Elizabeth Warren Over Hillary' Story?

New York Post suggests a secret plan, citing 'personal animosity.'

Management

Check Out the First Progress Reports on Agency Priority Goals

Updated list shows 33 new goals for fiscal 2014-2015.

Management

Quality Cost Data Is Key to Making Better Management Decisions

Executives must distinguish between two important (and often confused) types of cost estimating.

Management

USPS Will Shed 3,000 Employees by 2015, Through Retirements or Layoffs

Postmasters can receive one-time $10,000 payment.

Management

Veteran Dies in VA Hospital Cafeteria After Waiting 30 Minutes for an Ambulance

Cafeteria is just a five-minute walk from the facility's ER.

Management

Happy Birthday, America. Now What About National Preparedness?

How to build a multijurisdictional homeland security framework.

Management

Agencies Defend New Contract for Firm That Vetted Snowden and Navy Yard Shooter

USIS wins immigration services work.

Management

Federal Jobs Picture Changes Little in June

Postal Service adds 1,800 jobs but rest of federal government stays flat.