Defense
DHS bureau gets first permanent chief financial officer
Move indicates commitment to overcoming fiscal problems that have plagued Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Tech
Report: Tax code complexity places heavy burden on IRS
Taxpayer advocate urges simplification to ease service, enforcement demands.
Pay & Benefits
The Real Pay Formula
The recipe actually used to derive the civilian pay raise puts employees in line for a 2.2 percent hike in 2007.
Defense
Nuclear detection office starts new round of domestic tests
Studies will examine performance of portable devices in detecting radiation sources.
Defense
Administration to expand foreign language program
Defense, Education and State departments, along with the national intelligence director, to develop plan to expand foreign-language learning efforts.
News
Final budget vote set for Feb. 1
Passage of fiscal 2006 budget reconciliation bill would eliminate unneeded distraction as President Bush prepares to send up his 2007 budget.
News
Agencies assess money-laundering threat
Report by interagency working group highlights common schemes, enlists private financial institutions' help in combating crimes.
Pay & Benefits
ICE employees granted back pay for undocumented overtime
Arbitrator grants additional funds after a $20 million summer ruling.
Defense
Hurricane relief oversight leads to indictments, convictions
Latest progress report shows 65 indictments and 11 convictions in last two months.
Defense
Coast Guard modernization program could move faster, contractor says
Acceleration of the 25-year Deepwater project depends on funding, executive notes.
Defense
DHS seeks to outsource identification system
Plans could prompt criticism from privacy rights advocates and some lawmakers.
News