Management

Your City Might Start Paying You to Be Late for Work

Urban Engines is a new start-up making the case for skipping rush hour all together.

Nextgov

Former NSA Director: Big Data Is the Future

NSA’s only failure was letting Snowden breach its data, Keith Alexander says.

Oversight

Voters Hate Obamacare More Than They Want Immigration Reform

The Affordable Care Act remains the deciding issue in voters' minds

Oversight

Play of the Day: The Medical Conditions of Karl Rove

Letterman doesn't think Hillary Clinton is going to take Karl Rove's comments lying down.

Management

6 Communication Tips From Emergency Managers

How to get your message across, even if it isn’t a matter of life and death.

News

Shutdowns, Base Closings and Other True Stories of Suburban Federal Life

A new book chronicles life in Arlington, Va.

Employee Policy

OPM Director Katherine Archuleta on strengthening the federal workforce

Fox speaks with Katherine Archuleta, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about her efforts to strengthen the federal workforce. Archuleta has had a long career in government, holding key staff positions in the Departments of Transportation and Energy during the Clinton administration and in the Department of Labor during the Obama administration.

Pay

Mass transit subsidy measure fails in Senate

Republicans in the Senate last week prevented a vote on a bill that included a measure that would have raised mass transit benefits to 2013 levels.

Pay

DFAS announces new myPay features

The Defense Finance and Accounting Service's myPay system now will feature easier access and new financial reports.

Employee Policy

New website debuts for VA tipsters

A government watchdog group has joined with a veterans service organization to roll out a new website that provides a confidential online means for Department of Veterans Affairs employees to report mismanagement, fraud and abuse at the department.

Management

Report: HUD's Donovan to OMB in Cabinet Shift

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro would be appointed to lead HUD.

Management

Nuke Agency Rejects Mandate to Provide Cost-Savings Details

Agency's spending decisions are under the microscope in light of a broader congressional atmosphere of budget-tightening and because of past cost overruns.

Defense

'10 Million Man March' Recruits Several Hundred to Overthrow the Government

They came. They saw. They didn't quite conquer.

Oversight

Conservatives Want a Bigger Obamacare Fight Around HHS Nominee

The senators behind the government shutdown say Sylvia Mathews Burwell shouldn't get confirmed until she answers more questions about Obamacare.

News

Wanted: A Job Series for GPRA Specialists

Agencies use a 24-year-old job classification to hire today's performance officer.

Nextgov

VA Docs Ignored Department Drug Guidelines, Putting Patients at Risk

Tylenol and Xanax in combination with opioids can be deadly.

Pay & Benefits

House to Vote on Firing VA Senior Execs

A bill that would enhance the department secretary’s authority to sack poor performers at scandal-plagued VA hits the floor Wednesday.

Management

4 Ways Industry Can Help Make the DATA Act Work

In partnership with agencies, companies can benefit from improving spending data.

Management

Your Idea for Improving Program Management Could Be Worth Something

The Performance Improvement Council will award prizes for the most compelling submissions.

Defense One

How Corruption Guts Militaries: The Ukraine Case Study

Ukraine’s ousted strongman, Viktor Yanukovych 'deliberately destroyed the military.' Arming the corrupt networks he left behind would make things worse. By Sarah Chayes