Upheld on Appeal

• January 1, 2004

Bush sets 2004 pay raise at 2 percent

President Bush issued an executive order on Dec. 30 formally implementing a 2 percent civil service pay raise in 2004, but Congress is poised to grant a significantly higher increase in the pending fiscal 2004 omnibus budget bill.

• Amelia Gruber
• December 31, 2003

On the Move

An inside look at a systems integrator making inroads into the federal technology market.

• Shane Harris
• December 23, 2003

OMB to ask agencies for long-term job competition plans

OMB will ask agencies to create multi-year plans for opening federal jobs to private sector competition as a prerequisite for receiving a “green” rating in competitive sourcing.

• Jason Peckenpaugh
• December 23, 2003

Union fights FAA over privatizing maintenance jobs

• Chris Strohm
• December 23, 2003

Congress seeks better system for funding terrorism response

• Joe Fiorill
• December 22, 2003

Agencies respond to increased terrorist threat level

• Chris Strohm
• December 22, 2003

Report finds information sharing still a problem for FBI

• Shane Harris
• December 22, 2003

Feds battle drug traffickers on public lands

Foreign drug cartels are seeing our land as their land, presenting a a growing problem for federal land management and law enforcement agencies.

• Katherine McIntire Peters
• December 22, 2003

Defense contracting employees to vote on union representation

• Tanya Ballard Brown
• December 22, 2003

Calls for debarring Halliburton hasty, analysts say

• Amelia Gruber
• December 22, 2003

Homeland security a back burner issue in 2004

• Siobhan Gorman
• December 19, 2003

Pentagon completes draft criteria for 2005 base closings

The Defense Department finalized draft selection criteria for the 2005 round of military base closures on Friday.

• Amy Svitak
• December 19, 2003

Senator holds up Commerce nominee over fisheries earmark

• Peter Cohn
• December 19, 2003

Park Police chief prepares to fight firing

• Chris Strohm
• December 19, 2003

Homeland Security officials work toward plan on tech purchases

• Greta Wodele
• December 19, 2003

Agencies urged to create backup communications services

• National Journal
• December 19, 2003

Senate budget chief accused of abusing power

• Amelia Gruber
• December 19, 2003

Holiday Hangovers

The things Congress didn’t do for federal employees in 2003.

• Shawn Zeller
• December 18, 2003

Report criticizes federal immigrant tracking efforts

A new study concludes that the Bush administration has failed to fully implement a 2002 federal visa-tracking law and has missed a series of deadlines to improve immigration controls in the country.

• Chris Strohm
• December 18, 2003