Defense
Pentagon personnel chief investigated for 'tyrannical' leadership
Complaints allege Clifford Stanley is vindictive, wasteful, and unfit for service.
Oversight
OMB details agency obligations under Government Performance Act
Priority goals must be delivered by Sept. 12, as operating officers are urged to cut waste.
Oversight
Obama orders agencies to develop plans to increase workforce diversity
Executive order also mandates creation of governmentwide plan.
Oversight
Backpack-wearing ambassador causes a stir in China
Photo of Gary Locke at the airport goes viral in the Chinese blogosphere.
Oversight
Agency slow in applying technology to protect federal buildings, GAO says
Two reports say Federal Protective Services is behind on risk assessment and transfer of programs within Homeland Security Department.
Defense
Military faces stark choices in coming budget battles
Rising personnel and health care costs are forcing painful management decisions, leaders say.
Oversight
Common Sense
There are some interesting takeaways from the Ames, Iowa, straw vote, some of which feel a little Shakespearean.
Oversight
Deficit-cutting panel has a fallback option
The super committee could come up with a not-so-grand bargain that doesn’t completely avoid across-the-board cuts but makes a dent in the size of those reductions.
Defense
Army announces new renewable energy task force
Move will help to centralize management of large-scale projects and find private sector investors.
Oversight
Labor Department plans database to gauge discrimination by contractors
Proposed rule seeks public comment on collection of salary and benefits data to measure treatment of women and minorities.
Oversight
IG: Postal Service managers fudged pay-for-performance rules
Audit finds supervisors at the financially strapped agency arbitrarily lowered performance ratings and were less generous with raises, partly to avoid a public backlash.
Defense
Senate holds up nominee for State Department nonproliferation bureau
The office manages efforts to halt the proliferation and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
Oversight
Super committee appointee sees room for compromise
Willingness to find common ground comes as a surprise from Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who has tea party supporters and voted "no" on the debt deal.
Oversight
GOP lawmaker supports 'grand bargain' to reduce deficit
Congressional super committee will face an uphill battle reaching agreement on cuts, Rep. Peter King says.
Oversight
Makeup of deficit-cutting committee may doom it to gridlock
Deadlock would trigger painful and unpopular across-the-board spending cuts.
Oversight
GOP leaders name deficit reduction panel members
Debt deal asks bipartisan super committee to come up with cuts by Nov. 23.
Oversight
Obama's manufacturing adviser and former car czar leaving White House
Bloom was instrumental in administration’s effort to set first-ever fuel economy standards for big trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles.
Oversight
Source: Democrats Murray, Baucus, Kerry on deficit reduction committee
Under debt deal, bipartisan panel must find additional cuts by Nov. 23.
Oversight