Defense
Transportation Security Administration may need more than 70,000 employees
The Transportation Security Administration may need to hire more than 70,000 employees—up from the 30,000 initially projected—to handle passenger and baggage screening duties at the nation’s airports, according to the Transportation Department’s inspector general.
Management
HHS effort to consolidate operations met with skepticism
Participants in a Senate hearing Thursday questioned whether consolidating several public affairs offices within the Health and Human Services Department would improve communication on bioterrorism between the government and the public.
Management
Pentagon retools plans to privatize utilities at military bases
The Defense Department is retooling its plans to privatize utilities at military bases across the country after initial attempts to turn the systems over to contractors failed.
Defense
Uncivilized
The evil done by those who massacre civilians cannot be rationalized by saying the cause is just.
Defense
Smarter profiling at the border is needed, experts say
As the INS focuses on keeping terrorists from entering the country, analysts are warning that screening must get smarter.
Defense
Lawmakers push for national homeland security agency
Lawmakers on Thursday urged the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee to expedite action on the myriad of bills that aim to create a cabinet-level homeland security agency.
Defense