Budget
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Amy Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins are the managing partners and co-founders of consulting firm Isis Associates. And they\'ve put together a list of perils to organization wide meetings.
March 25, 2011 -
Career coach Kathryn Troutman of the Resume Place discusses the current federal hiring outlook and how to land a federal job. March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011 -
More than 260 service members were discharged under the Pentagon\'s outgoing \"Don\'t Ask, Don\'t Tell\" policy in the 2010 fiscal year.
March 25, 2011 -
Based on new figures, the military expects to spend more than three times what DHS is requesting for cyber operations.
March 25, 2011 -
The two agencies plan to implement healthier foods and sustainable options at all concessions in their buildings.
March 24, 2011 -
The Postal Service will offer $20,000 early retirement incentives to administrative employees, who must make a decision on whether to leave USPS by late April. RIF notices will be issued on May 25 to any affected employees who do not voluntarily retire or move to a lower grade.
March 24, 2011 -
Whistleblowers in the intel community could lose their pensions under a new bill, if they\'re caught leaking even non-classified information. We ask attorney Debra Roth if this changes what a leak is.
March 24, 2011 -
The agency plans to follow the model credit card companies use to identify potential problems on the front end instead of trying to chase down the money after the fact. CMS accounts for about 46 percent of all improper payments across the government. Overall, OMB wants to reduce the governmentwide error rate to 4.18 percent by 2013.
March 24, 2011 -
Federal Times\' Steve Watkins and Steve Losey discuss the likelihood of bills targeting federal employees will have enough votes to pass.
March 23, 2011 -
Female veterans still face significant frustration getting medical care, even in Veterans Affairs facilities with female-specific services.
March 23, 2011 -
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, in an analysis this month, estimated that the Libyan no-fly zone could cost $100 million to $300 million per week. The Hill\'s Sam Youngman puts those numbers into perspective for us.
March 23, 2011 -
Gen. Keith Alexander has outlined a series of next steps to be pursued by the six-month-old U.S. Cyber Command.
March 23, 2011 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which processed a record one million claims in 2010, is still seeing claims come in faster than it can process them and expects even more new filings in 2011. Despite that, VA hopes to eliminate its backlog of claims by 2015.
March 23, 2011 -
After its mid-year review of per-diem rates for 2011, 11 different counties need to be adjusted, according to the General Services Administration.
March 22, 2011 -
Focusing on these five strategies could help federal managers deal with budget constraints and low morale in the workplace.
March 22, 2011