Defense
Groups await changes in immigration bill
Business interests took a hit last week when the Senate voted to halve a proposed guest worker program to 200,000 foreign workers a year.
Defense
Advocates of stronger state chemical security laws plot next move
Attention has moved to the Homeland Security appropriations bill as a potential vehicle for language to let states pass more stringent rules than the federal government.
Tech
Rules lacking over access to executive branch info
Congress can use tools such as control over agency budgets to encourage disclosure, report notes.
Defense
GSA announces five Networx telecom awardees
Sprint Solutions makes the smaller Enterprise contract, after disappointment on the large Universal award in March.
Defense
Army report backs upgrades in combat medical units
Internal briefings describe training, equipment shortfalls.
Oversight
FAA, union haggle over performance pay
Employee organization argues formula hurts lower-level workers, with raises contingent on factors beyond their control.
Pay & Benefits
Getting to the SES
Training and leadership programs can help employees get to the top of the civil service ladder.
Defense
Report details challenges of new border security requirements
Initiative requires travelers entering the United States from any part of the Western Hemisphere to have secure, government-approved identification.
News
Study bolsters case for single federal regulator of life insurance
Industry would be able to save money by reducing the filing of regulatory reports, streamlining consumer complaints and undergoing fewer exams.
News
GOP lawmakers say Congress sapping DHS' energy
Recommendation from the 9/11 commission that the House streamline oversight of homeland security has gone unheeded.
Defense
Defense plans to be big user of GSA’s Networx contract
Defense Information Systems Agency officials say they plan to shift from the existing FTS 2001 telecommunications system to Networx along with other federal agencies.
Oversight
Lawyers anticipate failures in Indian trust fund accounting plan
Expected exclusions would eliminate “vast majority” of beneficiaries and assets in dispute, plaintiffs in long-running case argue.
Oversight
OSC rejects claim it leaked copies of Hatch Act report
In a letter, Special Counsel Scott Bloch suggests that the General Services Administration was the source of the leak.
Defense