Oversight
Final 2010 budget blueprint supports military-civilian pay parity
Language encouraging agencies to identify and eliminate poor-performing federal programs gets axed from the bill.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: Bill would shut down over-budget, behind-schedule IT projects
Agencies would receive support from IT team for projects that run over original cost estimates , with severely over-budget ones facing cancellation.
Defense
Commandant argues for new Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle
Marine Corps chief James Conway says the military needs the capability provided by the vehicle.
Oversight
Homeland secretary sees no reason to close border with Mexico
Janet Napolitano tells Congress that DHS has enough money to deal with the swine flu crisis until the supplemental funding bill is approved.
Oversight
States, localities could get access to GSA schedules for stimulus spending
House chairman plans to introduce cooperative purchasing bill for Recovery Act dollars.
Oversight
OPM announces new governmentwide telework policy
Agency director signals a focus on work-life balance programs for federal employees.
Oversight
State groups offer specifics for spending swine flu funds
Money is needed for staff, distributing vaccines, protecting health workers, and educating clinicians and the public.
Oversight
Obama requests $1.5 billion for swine flu in supplemental
President says he wants money "out of an abundance of caution."
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Bill would toughen security requirements over current law
A new White House cyberspace director would measure how well agencies patch systems for known viruses, malware and other security vulnerabilities .
Defense
Lawmakers probe Defense acquisition workforce issues
After years of staff cuts, the department and military services are slowly rebuilding contracting capacity.
Oversight
Transportation IG urges better training for novice air traffic controllers
High number of trainees assigned to three busy California airports, report finds.
Defense
Immigrations, emergency nominees breeze through House panel
Committee OKs John Morton to lead ICE and W. Craig Fugate to direct FEMA.
Oversight
Conferees agree on fiscal 2010 budget resolution
Deal provides $10 billion less in discretionary spending than President Obama recommended in his budget outline.
Oversight
Portion of gender pay gap persists, despite workforce changes
As government beats national trend, some give credit to protections against discrimination.
Oversight
Interior seeks to rescind controversial mining rule
Bush administration’s mountaintop coal mining provision is ‘legally defective,’ Salazar says.
Defense
Groups challenges selection of biodefense site
Homeland Security officials, along with Kansas senators, are adamantly defending the decision to build multimillion facility in Manhattan, Kan.
Oversight
Black farmers want quicker USDA action on claims
Group is planning a protest Tuesday, despite a lengthy civil rights memorandum from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Defense
Outgoing Defense acquisition chief warns against excessive regulation
John Young says we’re headed toward a “tax code-like” set of contracting rules.
Oversight