Management
Postal Service prepares for rate hike despite strong financial results
CFO expects agency will earn $1 billion this year, break even next year.
Tech
Administration readies new ID standard for employees
Agencies must submit plans for incorporating new standards by June and comply by October.
Defense
Justice forms procurement fraud task force
In wake of scandal at Defense Department, new working group aims to combat abuses in acquisition system.
Defense
War supplemental faces lengthy debate
Proposals to loosen immigration requirements could slow action on the legislation.
Management
Life After Government
A former government technology guru goes to the private sector, helping contractors design their pitches.
Defense
Los Alamos scientists develop new method to detect smuggled nukes
New approach has advantages over detectors now deployed at U.S. borders, which use either X-rays or gamma rays.
Defense
Student visitor screening process improvements cut clearance time
State Department's Visa Mantis program reduces waiting time from 67 days in 2003 to 15 in 2004.
Defense
DHS favors easing deadline on state security funds
Investigations found local communities had not received or spent the nearly $14 billion in federal funding allocated for counterterrorism activities.
Defense
National critical infrastructure plan nears completion
But members of information-sharing councils cite worsening relations between industry and Homeland Security Department.
News
GAO issues last financial systems checklist
Responsibility for oversight of agency fnance efforts now shifts to OMB.
Tech
Lawmaker offers plan for curbing purchase card misuse
Bill intended to reduce wasteful spending would increase purchase card spending analysis and GSA bargain-hunting efforts.
Pay & Benefits
Bush's A-list: Who gets the top salaries?
A rundown on the senior White House aides who get the much-coveted title of "assistant to the president" and the top West Wing pay.
Oversight