Budget

  • The Military Times reports that the price tag of the GI Bill could halt improvements to the bill.

    October 08, 2010
  • A Government Accountability Office report said the Office of Personnel Management needs to do a better job of protecting private information when conducting background checks.

    October 08, 2010
  • Harvard business professor John Kotter offers ideas about how to get others to buy into your idea in his book, \"The Buy-In,\" which he writes about in a post in the Harvard Business Review.

    October 08, 2010
  • \"Science of NFL Football\" is a 10-part video series funded by the National Science Foundation and produced in partnership with the National Football League. NSF\'s Jeff Nesbit joins our huddle with details.

    October 08, 2010
  • A fire at the U.S. Department of Commerce has shut down the Hoover Building in D.C.. Construction workers had been doing asbestos abatement when the fire started in a storage room. Crews were able to quickly put out the fire but employees are being encouraged to take administrative leave or telework.

    October 08, 2010
  • More than 400 employees will spend another fiscal year setting their own schedules and focusing on performance instead of worrying about where they are working. OPM is redoing performance plans to incorporate the Results Only Work Environment approach.

    October 07, 2010
  • More than 400 employees will spend another fiscal year setting their own schedules and focusing on performance instead of worrying about where they are working. OPM is redoing performance plans to incorporate the Results Only Work Environment approach.

    October 07, 2010
  • Subhead: Administration honors sustainability efforts by seven agencies with the 2010 GreenGov Presidential awards.

    October 07, 2010
  • Paul Brubaker, senior director for Cisco System\'s North America Public Sector Solutions, former deputy CIO at DoD and one of the people who crafted the legislation that created the CIO\'s over a decade ago, joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss changes happening at the DoD CIO office.

    October 07, 2010
  • The massive shift of workers out of the National Security Personnel System over to the General Schedule is on track, Federal News Radio reports.

    October 07, 2010
  • The NSPS Transition Office is working itself out of a job. We get an update from director John James.

    October 07, 2010
  • Council on Environmental Quality issues new guidance giving agencies instructions to measure greenhouse gas emissions. Council chair Nancy Sutley said the directive includes approaches used inside and out of government. Agencies have until January 2011 to complete an initial baseline inventory.

    October 07, 2010
  • With the majority of federal employees located outside of the Washington, D.C. metro area, how are feds in regional offices answering the White House\'s mandates regarding the greening of government? The answer: the Federal Executive Boards organized groups of executives who find ways to collaborate across agency lines.

    October 07, 2010
  • The Defense Department website gets a face lift.

    October 06, 2010
  • Organizers of a new, conservative initiative are issuing a fact sheet Wednesday that argues against any cuts in defense spending, Politico reports.

    October 06, 2010