Management
Standing Desks Are Good, But Would a Standing Office Be Even Better?
Science says sitting is terrible for your health. A design team responds by doing away with office seating completely—and elegantly.
Oversight
New Oversight Panel Leadership, Same Tensions Over House IRS Probe
Chairman Chaffetz describes revelations that made his 'jaw hit the ground.'
Nextgov
DHS Wants to Plug Holes in Cyber Defenses with Big Data
Parsing data gleaned from its network-monitoring activities could provide a full-scale, real-time model of the potential cyberthreat agencies face, DHS officials say.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Prescription Drugs or Methamphetamine?
Big pharma is learning a lot from the Walter Whites of the world.
Oversight
Homeland Funding Path Murky as Recess—and a Shutdown—Loom
While leaders look for an end to DHS stalemate, the Senate will tackle nominees and the House will finalize a Keystone bill.
Management
Frozen's Idina Menzel Is Over Perfectionism. You Should Be Too.
Focusing on missteps can stall your work life.
Employee Policy
USPS gets Christmas present
The year-end holiday season was kind to the U.S. Postal Service, generating business that resulted in a 4.3 percent increase in operating revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 over the same period a year before.
Retirement
Bill would lower employee pension contribution rate
A House lawmaker has reintroduced the Federal Employee Pension Fairness Act, which would repeal measures that increased the amount that newer federal employees must contribute to their pensions.
Retirement
OPM retirement claims backlog doubles
The Office of Personnel Management last month took in 18,629 new retirement claims, resulting in a month-end backlog of nearly twice the number of claims that were in its inventory at the end of December.
Nextgov
GAO's High-Risk List Adds IT Acquisition and Veteran Health Care
Multiple Capitol Hill sources confirmed to Nextgov that IT acquisition and operations and veteran health care are now included.
Employee Policy
DHS dials back employee space in revised HQ plan
The Department of Homeland Security's has revamped its headquarters consolidation plan to cut the cost of the project by reducing the square footage per employee.
Employee Policy
Park Police union calls for more resources; cites terrorist activity
The Fraternal Order of Police committee that represents U.S. Park Police warned the head of the National Park Service that its force needs more staff and financial support to adequately protect U.S. monuments and their visitors from terrorist attacks.
Employee Policy
DISA launches new DOD online collaboration tool
The Defense Information Systems Agency last week announced it is rolling out an online collaboration tool that lets Defense Department employees worldwide access secure web conferencing, instant messaging and chat capabilities.
Route Fifty
Should the Garden State Abolish Its County Governments?
A state assemblyman from North Jersey wants to do away them. But he might want to take a South Jersey field trip first.
Nextgov
Need a Job? Cyber Command Is Halfway Full
The Pentagon is at the midway point of staffing a projected 6,000-person Cyber Command.
Defense
IG Probes Air Force 2-Star’s Treason Charge
General reportedly said A-10 pilots who tell Congress about the aircraft’s capabilities are committing treason.
Nextgov
What Kind of Federal CIO Will Tony Scott Be?
Tony Scott officially takes the reins of the Obama administration’s $84 billion IT budget next week.
Management
Obama Administration: Climate Change Is ‘An Urgent and Growing Threat’ to National Security
A new national security document from the administration puts climate change front and center
Management
11 Major Agency Reforms in Obama’s Budget
Consolidations, expansions and staffing change proposals in the fiscal 2016 blueprint.
Management