Tech
Project to streamline patent reviews nearing launch
Communal approach will let the public submit existing inventions known as "prior art" and comment on their relevance to patent applications.
Management
Chief of the Smithsonian resigns
Departure comes amid controversy over unauthorized spending on items such as private jet travel.
Defense
DHS seeks help investigating nuclear detection gaps
Industry, academic and government experts would study existing holes, in part by attempting to think like potential terrorists.
Defense
Deal on rail and mass transit security grants angers GOP
Arrangement would allow DHS and Transportation to share responsibility for grants, though DHS would still determine recipients.
Tech
Audit: Emergency communications project imperiled
Uncertain funding mechanisms and a poor governing structure are among the problems jeopardizing the effort to create a wireless network for first responders.
Defense
Lack of detention space hinders efforts to track fugitive immigrants
Inspector general recommends more resources, notes number of fugitives rose nearly 88 percent from 2001 to 2006.
Defense
New style of war key to success in Iraq
Changes in how Humvees are used, rather than in the vehicles themselves, may help reduce death rates.
Management
Feds report job and pay satisfaction
Majority of survey respondents see benefits to pay for performance systems, but many are not confident of successful implementation.
Defense
Forward Observer: Vietnam Veto Redux
The president’s veto power gives him the upper hand in Iraq discussions, short of dramatic developments on the battlefield.
Management
Ex-Interior official pleads guilty for obstruction of justice
Under agreement, prosecutors will propose a maximum 10-month sentence for former No. 2 official at the department.
Management
Lawmaker asks IRS to suspend hiring debt collection contractors
Leader of Ways and Means panel notes IRS opted against renewing one of three contracts it awarded last year.
Defense
Democratic leadership wins first major test on Iraq funds
Republicans attack war spending bill -- which passed on a narrow margin -- as a recipe for defeat in Iraq littered with "pork-barrel" funding.
Management
NASA is shirking its educational duties, union says
Labor group asks appropriators to give space agency about $1 billion more than President Bush proposed for fiscal 2008.
Defense
Merit board seeks summary judgment powers
Top official sees heavier caseload ahead with retirements, tight budgets, pay for performance and potential expansion of whistleblower rights.
Defense