Commentary

Kevin White, Gissa Sateri, and Pawin Chawanasunthornpot of REI Systems explains how agencies can move toward agile development.

On the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Mike Causey shares a friend’s written recollections of that fateful day from the Washington, D.C. area. It was the man’s 48th birthday.

Allstate insurance company has come out with its annual best-and-worst list and neither Baltimore nor Washington, D.C., the two biggest hubs of federal workers, did not fare well.

As we prepare for the new fiscal year, the Coalition for Government Procurement is providing its, “5 pillars for schedule modernization,” to assist the General Services Administration and the Veterans Affairs Department with modernizing the schedules program.

So who is the author of the Op-Ed? Is it real or could the Times have been had? Do you think he or she is correct and did the right thing, or is this someone with an ax to grind?

President Donald Trump said a pay freeze wouldn’t hurt Uncle Sam in either recruiting or retaining good people. Government unions denounced the proposed pay freeze and Trump’s attitude toward federal workers.

My most recent post addressed settlement agreements and when they may make sense for an agency. There are also reasons why settlement agreements can be a terrible idea. Here are three that I find particularly troubling

Whether you get a pay raise or not next January, chances are you are worth more than you think — literally.

These and others are reasons why settlement agreements are a useful tool in the employee relations toolbox.

Many federal workers have heard that the current record-long bull market can’t last forever. Many of the experts say a 20 percent to even 30 percent drop in the stock market is possible.

In many parts of the country today marks the unofficial, but real end of summer. Schools that are not in session will be tomorrow, and traffic will be back to full gridlock mode.

Labor Day weekend also brings us an air of anticipation associated with the recent enactment of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.

The upside to the Russia pension system is that it is indexed to inflation. The downside is that the average life expectancy for Russian men is reportedly 59.

Congress is wise to jump onto oversight of two departments’ electronic health records projects.