Defense
Army announces new renewable energy task force
Move will help to centralize management of large-scale projects and find private sector investors.
Oversight
Labor Department plans database to gauge discrimination by contractors
Proposed rule seeks public comment on collection of salary and benefits data to measure treatment of women and minorities.
Oversight
IG: Postal Service managers fudged pay-for-performance rules
Audit finds supervisors at the financially strapped agency arbitrarily lowered performance ratings and were less generous with raises, partly to avoid a public backlash.
Defense
Senate holds up nominee for State Department nonproliferation bureau
The office manages efforts to halt the proliferation and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
Oversight
Super committee appointee sees room for compromise
Willingness to find common ground comes as a surprise from Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who has tea party supporters and voted "no" on the debt deal.
Oversight
GOP lawmaker supports 'grand bargain' to reduce deficit
Congressional super committee will face an uphill battle reaching agreement on cuts, Rep. Peter King says.
Oversight
Makeup of deficit-cutting committee may doom it to gridlock
Deadlock would trigger painful and unpopular across-the-board spending cuts.
Oversight
GOP leaders name deficit reduction panel members
Debt deal asks bipartisan super committee to come up with cuts by Nov. 23.
Oversight
Obama's manufacturing adviser and former car czar leaving White House
Bloom was instrumental in administration’s effort to set first-ever fuel economy standards for big trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles.
Oversight
Source: Democrats Murray, Baucus, Kerry on deficit reduction committee
Under debt deal, bipartisan panel must find additional cuts by Nov. 23.
Oversight
Employees rank NASA as most innovative agency
Nonprofit looks at how federal workers view creativity in their jobs.
Oversight
OPM backs management groups seeking to participate in labor forums
Berry reminds agencies to consult with organizations representing supervisors on personnel and operations issues.
Oversight
Self-Sorting
More and more, politically like-minded Americans are living next to each other. Polarization is one result.
Defense
Privacy groups challenge proposal expanding access to terrorist watch list
Plan making an FBI database available to more Homeland Security employees draws concerns about transparency.
Oversight
Obama says downgrade should prompt 'renewed sense of urgency'
Standard & Poor's lowered the U.S. credit rating on Friday.
Defense
Cutting F-35 would be complicated, costly, Pentagon says
Engine order is the largest Defense contract.
Oversight
Postal Service seeks a lifeline from Congress
The financially ailing USPS will reach its statutory borrowing limit by Sept. 30, unless lawmakers come to the rescue.
Oversight
Government’s greatest achievements, biggest challenges: What’s your view?
We’re interested in your opinions about what government has done well and where it’s headed. Take our online survey.
Oversight