Editor's Notebook
Soldier-Statesman
Army Chief Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker talks about his service's needs and the "masses of people that are the prize."
Tech
GAO: Travel effort has generated small business opportunities
GSA promotes the use of small subcontractors by setting goals, report finds.
News
GSA official: Revolving funds merger will help offset losses
Congress is close to approving a combined Federal Acquisition Service fund.
Defense
Senate approves port security bill
Unlike the House, the Senate approved language authorizing $3.5 billion for mass transit security grant programs.
Management
House passes earmark disclosure rule by comfortable margin
Of the 24 Republicans who voted against the rules change, 22 were appropriators.
News
Senator renews call to rein in agency conference spending
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is concerned that federal employees are misusing conferences to take vacations on the government’s dime.
News
Interior contracting shop could lose Pentagon business
Defense auditors are set to recommend that the department stop using Interior’s regional reimbursable contracting operation.
Defense
Infrastructure subpanel approves dam safety legislation
Bill would increase annual funding for program to $12.7 million from $8.6 million.
Tech
Missing computer containing sensitive VA data recovered
Federal officials do not think thief was targeting the data, but are checking to make sure no information was compromised.
Pay & Benefits
Life Insurance Options, Part One
The first in a two-part series on the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance program.
Tech
Finance center to shift data from New Orleans to Denver
Risk of hurricanes prompts permanent relocation of hardware that helps process pay checks for more than 500,000 federal employees.
Management
Interior official defends agency's oil lease management
Department disagrees with IG’s “broad brush characterization” of royalties collection problems, deputy secretary says.
Tech
Subcommittee advances electronic health records bill
Legislation would require Federal Employees Health Benefits Program insurance carriers to offer two types of e-records.
Defense
Auditor blasts California's emergency management work
State homeland security official places some of the blame for failure to move quickly on the federal government.
Management