Management
Listen Up
When employees make sound business cases for change and managers respond, agencies improve.
Defense
Pentagon IG: Defense official could face criminal charges
Report identifies several former Pentagon leaders as central to the tanker deal, as well as current acquisition chief, Michael Wynne.
Pay & Benefits
Bush administration developing governmentwide personnel reform bill
Proposal would do away with the General Schedule system by 2010.
Pay & Benefits
Defense personnel reform postponed
Target date for first group of employees to join the system shifted from July until the fall.
News
Procurement policy chief pushes creativity in contracting
David Safavian announces plans to meet more with acquisition officers; OMB documents savings from job competitions.
Defense
House Defense spending bill boosts R&D funds
Measure makes several adjustments to major procurement programs and fully funds president's request for a 3.1 percent pay raise for military personnel.
Defense
Pentagon IG tanker report points finger at senior officials
Report implicates more than a half-dozen senior Pentagon officials in wrongdoing, but strikes names of many other, more mid-level acquisition personnel.
Oversight
High Anxiety
Job approval ratings indicate that the public is completely unaware of what Congress has achieved.
Defense
FBI, Santa Fe police probe attack on Los Alamos employee
The employee, Tommy Hook, had alleged financial improprieties at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Defense
Zippo fires up effort to ease TSA restrictions on lighters
Having won a battle to allow unfilled lighters on airplanes, company lobbies TSA to let passengers travel with filled lighters in checked bags.
Management
Spending bills on schedule--for now
The table is set for reversing the seemingly never-ending cycle of omnibus bills and continuing resolutions, but there will be many opportunities for the process to unravel.
Tech
Government to spearhead creation of e-healthcare system
New panel tasked with overseeing creation of digital health records system.
Defense
Pentagon misses deadline for releasing base-closing data
Sens. Collins and Lieberman continue to press for the information.
Defense