Features
The Gatekeepers
Chief acquisition officers hold the keys to improving the effectiveness and speed with which agencies buy.
Features
The Navigators
Chief information officers must steer clear of security breaches and hacker attacks while scanning the horizon for innovations to improve performance.
Features
The Guardians
As cybersecurity takes on greater importance, so does the role of the chief information security officers who keep watch over data and systems.
News
EPA mapping work aims for more readable data
Call for a computer program that could overlay water-quality data on imagery of the Gulf Coast prompted the agency to upgrade its operations.
Oversight
Bush signs lobbying, ethics reform package
Measure bans gifts to members of Congress and most travel paid for by lobbyists.
News
Administration plays down report on Iraq benchmarks
Report lists what it describes as evidence that some benchmarks represent "lagging indicators" of real progress.
Defense
Pentagon rejects Air Force bid to control UAV programs
Other services viewed the Air Force's efforts as a power grab and vociferously objected, stating that they feared giving up their buying power.
Oversight
Sun Microsystems quits GSA multiple award contract
Company has been under ongoing scrutiny from the agency’s inspector general and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
Defense
Pentagon changes policy for NSPS pay raises in 2008
Some employees in the new personnel system won’t get the increase they expected.
Oversight
Working group to stay mum on FDA consolidation plan
Lab closure strategy remains suspended as officials see if it would fit in with the panel’s broader recommendations.
Pay & Benefits
Unions call on OPM to rein in health care premiums
Labor leaders say federal government should increase its share of payments and take advantage of subsidies.
Pay & Benefits