Management

OPM launches program to diversify senior executive corps

To help increase diversity in the Senior Executive Service, the Office of Personnel Management has created a new program to help develop a more diverse pool of candidates for positions in the government’s top management corps.

Pay & Benefits

Fair pay

Some lawmakers, feds are leery of pay-for-performance measures.

Management

Some contractors would be exempt from oversight under proposal

Certain federal contractors would no longer have to follow key oversight and accounting rules on contracts worth up to $200 million under legislation being drafted by the chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.

Defense

Iraq and beyond

Pundits should spend less time second-guessing the Bush administration's military strategy in Iraq and more time pushing for the president to make the right decisions in the weeks and months ahead.

Management

Lawmakers oppose Bush’s pay-for-performance fund

Lawmakers from both parties said Tuesday they would oppose a Bush administration proposal to create a $500 million fund for performance-based pay raises for federal employees this year.

Defense

Clarification