Defense
Defense language training program needs improvement, GAO says
Army and Marine Corps programs lack the documentation necessary for improvement, audit finds.
Pay & Benefits
Retirement funds rebound in October
After losing ground for five months, all the TSP investment options post gains.
Defense
Mail delivery to service members in Iraq winds down
The Postal Service will not accept parcels addressed to military post offices there after Nov. 17.
Defense
Defense needs to improve efforts to prevent sexual harassment, GAO says
Auditors call for leadership accountability and enforcement of current policies.
Defense
HHS joins White House initiative to put veterans to work
Agency orders community health centers to hire 8,000 veterans by 2015.
Defense
Defense urged to create central domestic violence database
Watchdog group criticizes the Pentagon's slow progress on tracking and targeting abuse.
Pay & Benefits
GAO weighs in on Postal Service’s financial health
Report recommends eliminating or revising requirement for prefunding retiree health benefits, among other options.
Pay & Benefits
New USAJobs site to get more servers, OPM chief tells labor-management meeting
The personnel office also responds to performance management recommendations from September.
Pay & Benefits
Agriculture offers another round of buyouts
Nearly 2,000 Rural Development employees will have the option of leaving, for payments of $25,000.
Oversight
Elouise Cobell, champion in landmark Indian lawsuit, dies
Blackfeet woman netted $3.4 billion for Native Americans in settlement over Interior’s handling of trust fund.
Oversight
Homeland Security cracks down on workers’ outside employment
Proposed rules would require employees to get permission before agreeing to outside work including teaching, speaking and consulting.
News
Officials encourage agencies to look far and wide for innovation
Great ideas can come from unexpected sources, from an ordinary citizen responding to a crowd-sourcing initiative to a chance encounter with an employee in the elevator, leaders say.
Oversight
Suspension and debarment could discourage rebate schemes
The threat of no longer doing business with the government might prevent food service contractors from overbilling USDA and Defense, witnesses tell Senate panel.
Defense
Suspect arrested in shooting of SSA employee
Victim of armed robbery did not sustain life-threatening injuries, but the incident prompted a lockdown of the agency’s Woodlawn, Md., campus for more than one hour.
News
Social Security lifts campus lockdown
Move had been prompted by a shooting that injured one man, according to police.
Pay & Benefits
A look at 20 of the all-time greatest federal employees
A guide to some of history's most illustrious civil servants.
Features
20 of the All-Time Greatest Feds
A guide to some of historys most illustrious civil servants.
News
Photo Gallery: Rallying for the Post Office
Images of local postal workers taking to the Washington streets.
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