Management

Agency management scorecards still in the red

Most agencies are still struggling to implement key pieces of the president’s management reform plan, despite a few improvements over the past year, Office of Management and Budget officials said Monday.

Defense

Bush seeks employee support for homeland security reorganization

President Bush Wednesday asked federal employees to be patient and support his proposal for a Homeland Security Department, but did not directly address concerns about workers’ rights or pay.

Pay & Benefits

TSP’s C fund dives in June

Defense

Contract overpayments continue to plague Defense Department

Defense Department contractors returned $488 million in overpayments to the agency in fiscal 2001, despite the agency’s efforts to prevent improper payments, according to a new General Accounting Office report.

News

Pentagon ‘mayor’ dies from injuries sustained in car crash

David O. “Doc” Cooke, a longtime career civil servant known as the “mayor of the Pentagon,” died June 22 from injuries suffered two weeks ago in a car accident near Charlottesville, Va.

Pay & Benefits

Senator to introduce personnel reform bill

A coalition of business leaders, academics and good-government organizations are throwing their support behind human capital reform legislation that Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, plans to introduce Thursday.