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Jessica Lambertson

News

President honors top feds

Presidential Rank Award winners play critical roles in missions ranging from project management to scientific research and defense.

Features

Prize Performers

Presidential Rank Award winners play critical roles in missions ranging from project management to scientific research and defense.

Defense

Former NSA executive accused of leaking classified information

Indictment claims the official shared classified documents with a newspaper reporter and then tried to cover his tracks during an investigation.

Oversight

Oversight committee OKs telework and TSP bills

Federal employees are one step closer to regular telecommuting and to being allowed to put the cash value of unused leave toward their retirement.

Defense

First Lady praises Pentagon employees

Mrs. Obama says administration is committed to supporting service members and their families through improved pay and benefits.

News

Interagency task force to oversee long-term Haiti support and rebuilding

USAID and other agencies work together to prepare for the pending rainy season.

Pay & Benefits

Agencies move ahead to create labor partnership councils

National Credit Union Administration and National Treasury Employees Union sign labor-management pact ahead of the schedule outlined in presidential directive.

Pay & Benefits

Web site helps nuclear security agency employees find role models

Mentorship program targets all experience levels, not just senior managers.

Defense

Errors result in improper billing for victims of military sexual trauma

Allegations of wrongful co-payment charges in Texas clinic spur VA investigation.

Defense

Civilian agencies help fuel growth in translation contracts

Increasing immigrant population and greater enforcement of discrimination laws lead to higher domestic demand for language services.

Oversight

Program Cuts, Agency-by-Agency

A list of federal programs and initiatives that would lose some or all of their funding in fiscal 2011 and beyond under Obama's budget plan.

Oversight

Some nonsecurity agencies see slight budget boosts

The Education, Energy and Transportation departments are among those slated for small increases in fiscal 2011, despite the discretionary spending freeze.

Oversight

Report says size of FCC staff decreased steadily during past decade

GAO: Decline in agency staff is due to a lack of workforce planning and competitive pay.

Defense

Withdrawal of TSA nominee raises concern about agency workforce

Lack of permanent leadership is delaying action on important issues, union officials say.

Defense

State Department employees are accounted for after quake

President Obama promises massive, multiagency relief effort in Haiti.