Tech
Senate panel votes to require agency reports on data mining
Measure included in bill to implement 9/11 Commission recommendations.
Defense
Embattled Democrat lands spot on Homeland Security panel
Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., has been under federal investigation since March 2005 for allegedly receiving bribes.
Pay & Benefits
Bill on retiree health insurance premiums re-emerges
Measure would let retired military and civilian federal workers pay their monthly health care premiums with pre-tax dollars.
Defense
Report cites progress in security clearance processing
Agencies met interim deadline for making improvements, but challenges remain, report states.
Management
Interior IG: Senior execs 'immune' from punishment
Rank-and-file employees are disciplined more strictly and more often than their supervisors, investigator tells lawmakers.
Defense
Iraq burden shifts from reserves to regular active duty troops
The Guard and Reserves may have a bigger role in Iraq in 2008, leaving this year as one to regroup.
Defense
Senate fight looms over revising security grant formula
Lawmakers are divided over how much each state should be guaranteed in politically popular grants managed by DHS.
Management
OMB chief tells agencies to ignore earmarks not written into law
The fiscal 2007 full-year funding measure for domestic agencies signed into law Thursday by President Bush contains no new earmarks.
Defense
Navy wants more ships, aircraft than budgeted
Service wants an additional $1.7 billion to buy another LPD-17 amphibious transport dock ship next year, and $1.4 billion for 33 new planes.
Pay & Benefits
Short-Term Benefits
You don’t have to spend your whole career in government to reap the benefits of the federal retirement system.
Defense
DHS police thwart intruder at lawmaker’s district office
Federal Protective Service responds when military veteran allegedly enters congressman's office with a knife.
Defense
DHS official defends effort to promote radio interoperability
Official took some heat for a recent survey finding that department employees had the lowest rate of job satisfaction at any federal agency.
Defense
Assertion of more Iraq waste goes unsupported
Witnesses at House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing decline to endorse panel chairman’s projections of waste.
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