Route Fifty
How Much Money Is NYC Losing in Its Policing Slowdown?
Those parking ticket fines add up.
Tech
Edward Snowden is Happy With Life in Russia
The fugitive leaker warns that the U.S. is ill-equipped to stop foreign cyberattacks—and opens up about how much he likes living under asylum in Russia.
Pay & Benefits
Fewer Senior Execs Got Bonuses in Fiscal 2013
The amount of money top performers received on average also fell slightly between fiscal years 2012 and 2013, according to latest data.
Defense One
5 Months of Air Strikes in Iraq and Syria in 4 Charts
Five months, 1,689 strikes, and more than 3,200 targets, the campaign against the Islamic State rumbles on. By Kedar Pavgi
Oversight
Democrats Tip Their Hand on Climate-Change Fight as Senate Keystone Bill Advances
Failed amendment from Bernie Sanders sets up floor debate on climate science.
Management
The 10 Categories Where Federal Agencies Spend the Most on Contracting
White House moves forward with a plan to make federal acquisition more efficient.
Oversight
The Obama Scandal That Republicans Won't Let Fade Away
With Republicans in control of the Senate, expect new investigations into old scandals, like Fast and Furious.
Pay & Benefits
House Passes Bill To Increase Jobs for Vets
Legislation also would help small businesses by allowing them not to count vets with government health care toward employer mandate.
Route Fifty
How a Seattle Programmer Used Public Records Laws to Push Police to Fix a Surveillance Video Tech Headache
In an expansive interview, a formerly anonymous systems analyst details his plans to assist law enforcement on automated video redactions and greater transparency.
Management
Why Every Agency Needs a Chief Management Officer
The top leader can't do it all in a mere 168-hour week.
Oversight
Four Key Workplace Laws That Don't Apply to Congress
The Office of Compliance has some ideas for updating protections for Hill workers. And it wants a new name.
Defense
The FBI Is Working With France to Find the Charlie Hebdo Gunmen
Agents are conducting “various database searches” to hunt down the attackers.
Management
The Last-Ditch Environmental Push to Defeat Keystone XL
Greens are desperate to keep pro-pipeline majority under veto-proof levels.
Benefits
New OPM rule would head off FEHB coverage gap
The Office of Personnel Management has proposed a new rule that would prevent a gap in coverage for employees who fail to enroll in a new health plan when employees' previous Federal Employees Health Benefits plans or options terminate.
Employee Policy
MSPB report notes shift in federal hiring landscape
The idea of "fair and open competition" for federal jobs has undergone some changes in recent years, according to findings of a new study by the Merit Systems Protection Board.
Employee Policy
Lawmaker demands info on data breach
A key lawmaker is asking a background investigations contractor for more information on the extent of a data security breach at that may have compromised the personal information of more than 40,000 federal employees.
Nextgov
Kim Jong-un’s Operating System Now Available in the Free World
The jingle that plays when you boot up the system is a popular Korean folksong, Motherboard reports.
Nextgov
IBM’s Full-Court Press to Capture DOD Health Records Contract
DOD is expected in June 2015 to award the $11 billion contract for overhauling its electronic health records system.
Nextgov