Tech
Lockheed developing military health tracking system
Defense Department awards Lockheed Martin $47 million contract to build the second phase of a medical monitoring program.
Management
OMB chief denies White House planning steep budget cuts
Says a planning document is just "what the computer spits out to get the process started."
Tech
Survey finds data mining widespread among agencies
The controversial Total Information Awareness program may be dead, but agencies are running dozens of other efforts to comb through private data.
Defense
Panel finds complexity slows U.S. antiterrorism spending
Despite the best intentions of all parties, money is slow to work its way through the pipeline.
Pay & Benefits
Drop General Schedule system by 2009, report says
National Academy of Public Administration recommends pay banding salary system.
Defense
Defense Department lacks staff to tackle security clearance backlog
Defense Security Service investigators complain about having to adapt to OPM's case management system.
Pay & Benefits
Chief Reform Officer
A career civil servant has been handed the job of implementing the Defense Department's new personnel system.
Defense
FBI unveils plan for better computers and information access for agents
New chief information officer challenges claims that the bureau has made little progress since 9/11.
Defense
Interagency task force to address new terror threats
The FBI has set up a new ad hoc organization to deal with intelligence suggesting al Qaeda plans U.S. attacks this summer.
Management
Forest Service admits flaws in job competition effort
Agency has decided to hold off on initiating any new competitions this fiscal year.
Defense
New Air Force tanker studies to face close scrutiny
Sen. John McCain, a leading critic of the Air Force's plans, says process "will remain an issue of continuing interest to me."
News
Senate panel to mark up postal legislation next week
Postmaster general says several key issues in the bill and similar legislation in the House need to be resolved.
Defense
Energy Department outlines plan for securing nuclear materials
The $450 million initiative involves creating a new organization within the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Defense
CDC restructures to better battle bioterror
Reorganization effort also aimed at increasing focus on disease prevention.
Defense
Army requested company’s interrogators for Iraq prison
Interior inspector general will probe details of use of technology contract to hire interrogation services from CACI Inc.
News
NIH weighing government authority over drug pricing
AIDS activists ask the agency to step in to lower the price of a popular drug developed partly with federal grant money.
Tech