Defense
Gates offers Bush new Air Force leadership team
Gen. Norton Schwartz, a 35-year veteran with a background in Air Force special operations, is Defense secretary's pick as chief of staff.
Oversight
Storms test GSA’s continuity plans
Power outage at Northern Virginia facility allows agency to launch notification system and telework arrangements.
Pay & Benefits
Telework negotiations break down between union and GSA
Dispute over disciplinary provision and elimination of employee reimbursements ends in stalemate.
News
Senators call for investigation into SBA lender review program
Democrat and Republican urge follow-up on inspector general report showing poor oversight of loan program.
Oversight
From Nextgov.com: Business picking up for GSA’s Networx contract
After slow start, interest increases in telecom pact as deadline for agencies to recoup transition costs approaches.
Oversight
Watchdog groups seek deal on whistleblower protections
Legislation is among several government accountability bills that have passed easily in both chambers but which lawmakers have struggled for months to reconcile.
Defense
Union calls for investigation into TSA turnover
The attrition rate for employees covered under the security agency’s new pay-for-performance system was 21 percent in fiscal 2007.
Defense
Lawmaker seeks to set standards for DHS handling of sensitive unclassified info
Move comes in wake of White House effort to set up consistent system across government for safeguarding sensitive documents.
Defense
Gates: Mishandled nuclear weapons doomed Air Force officials
Investigations have showed widepsread problems in dealing with intercontinental ballistic missile inventory.
Pay & Benefits
The Benefits of Social Security
What you, your spouse and your children are entitled to.
Oversight
Trade group lobbies to loosen requirements for disadvantaged business status
Aerospace Industries Association says net worth limit is restrictive and outpaced by inflation.
News
From Nextgov.com: Info security chiefs weigh new approaches to looming threats
Many users of federal systems still are not grappling with the security implications of their actions.
Oversight
Collaborative Internet tools making inroads into intel agencies
Problems and skepticism still abound, but continued information sharing should win over doubters, says ODNI official.
Oversight
Officials: Government’s finances still are not in order, despite progress
Financial overseers say agencies have improved money management, but have a long way to go.
Pay & Benefits
Monster launches new hiring software tool tailored to federal agencies
Program will take agencies and applicants from job posting through the first day.
Oversight
House narrowly approves budget over Republican protests
Measure includes $1.013 trillion in discretionary spending to be doled out among the 12 annual appropriations bills; projects a $340 billion deficit in fiscal 2009.
Defense