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Civil service modernization is essential — here is one way to make it happen

We attempt to meet major challenges with civil service pay and job classification processes driven by a law that is 72 years old, and a hiring process…

Commentary

Senators concerned by military leadership of DoD, but will their votes reflect it?

Defense

Navy awards contract for next generation of submarines expected to cost $110B

Navy

Data organization is holding back the Advanced Battle Management System

Air Force

Army releases five-year plan to better diversity, equality and inclusion

Army

NDAA would create National Cyber Director position in White House

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Agencies find ways to support Congress’ needs remotely

Workforce

DoD plan to classify spending plans gets thumbs down from almost everyone

Defense

How average are you and what does it matter?

Federal Report

House IG tells committee to consider ‘tremendous opportunity’ to centralize IT services

Congress

OTA gets $6M in startup funding under draft spending bill

Technology

Commerce IG deems GAO staffing higher priority than OTA

Citing the Government Accountability Office’s plans to increase its capacity to conduct science and technology audits later this year, the Commerce Department’s…

Agency Oversight

In this Aug. 7, 2018, photo, Mark Robbins, the sole member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, walks through the supply closet, pointing to boxes full of cases, in his office in Washington. Robbins reads through federal workplace disputes, analyzes the cases, marks them with notes and logs his legal opinions. He then passes them along to nobody. He’s the only member of a three-member board that legally can’t operate until the president and Congress give him at least one colleague. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman)

Senate forces ‘first’ for MSPB as the agency loses all members

Merit Systems Protection Board has lost all members now, after the Senate on Thursday failed to take up legislation that would have extended the holdover…

Workforce Rights/Governance

Are you on the government’s endangered species list?