Defense
Coast Guard cancels patrol boat contract
Agency will be more involved in managing the program, and will solicit new bids for design and development work.
Pay & Benefits
Raising Expectations
Can federal employees trust top officials' promises that they won't be denied salary increases in performance-based pay systems?
News
Bush says he passed along complaints on U.S. attorneys
Attorney general is under pressure from leading Senate Democrats to resign over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys late last year.
News
Senate budget leader suggests hike in discretionary spending
Figure proposed by Democrats is $16 billion above President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request.
Tech
Senators seek federal transparency, 'reporter's shield'
Sponsor of bill to reform FOIA says the Bush administration has lax enforcement of the law, and a “near obsession” with secrecy.
Tech
Lawmakers demand details on security grant program
Program aims to help municipalities buy and deploy communications equipment that can work across jurisdictions.
Defense
Academics urge Congress to go beyond acquisition panel proposals
Researchers characterize recommendations as careful, say bid protests and other accountability measures should apply to all purchases.
News
Lawmakers to renew push for public service academy
Students would pay for their free education with at least five years of government service.
Tech
HUD leads way in massive IT consolidation effort
Most of the department’s computer system infrastructure has been outsourced; costs have fallen 20 percent.
News
House Dems seek to force FAA, controllers to resume talks
Leaders of Transportation and Infrastructure Committee want language in war-funding supplemental bill requiring contract negotiations.
Defense