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  1. Pension costs understated

  1. Enough bureaucracy already

    First, let me say these are my views only, not my employer's.

  2. Public service: an opportunity, not a burden

    I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

  1. Sequester poses public service challenges

  2. Contracting professionals need to travel — and train Apr. 28, 2013

  3. Cost restructuring can help agencies meet budget challenges Apr. 28, 2013

  4. Letters to the Editor: April 29 Apr. 28, 2013

  5. Editorial: Congress must help ensure a responsible drawdown Apr. 28, 2013

  6. DoD furloughs: A bad idea at a bad time Apr. 14, 2013

  7. A better way to pay Apr. 14, 2013

  8. Editorial: On wasteful spending, Congress is the problem Apr. 14, 2013

  9. Letters to the Editor: April 15, 2013 Apr. 14, 2013

  10. Accident spotlights need for contract rule changes Mar. 31, 2013

  11. How to narrow the cyber talent gap Mar. 31, 2013

  12. Editorial: Cancel plan to post personal financial forms Mar. 31, 2013

Sequester news
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  1. Sequester doesn't add up for IGs

    General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller expects the sequester to cost GSA $281 million in lost savings and revenue in 2013. Staff
    • May. 21, 2013

    The inspector general for the General Services Administration expects to lose out on more than a quarter-billion dollars in potential government …

  1. FBI's Mueller expects furloughs next year
  2. Courts seek $73M in emergency funding
  3. DoD halts shifting war money into base budget
  4. Leaders fear sequester's impact on recruitment, retention, service

Blogs

  1. Amazon gets federal cloud certification
  2. Agencies challenged to balance data sharing and security, experts say
  3. GSA to launch cloud broker pilot
  4. Contract flaws found in GSA Disney trip
  5. MSPB rebuffs union call for advance ruling on DoD furloughs
  6. How do you feel about the unfolding IRS scandal?

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Ask the Experts

  1. Minimum service time to carry insurance into retirement
  2. Options after losing job-required license
  3. Law enforcement retirement
  1. How to be a good pension fund manager
  2. Timing the market
  3. Furlough and TSP hardship withdrawal
  1. How to qualify for the Senior Executive Service
  2. Maximize your time as a Presidential Management Fellow
  3. Your LinkedIn profile should open strong
  1. Q & A Session – Discrimination in a Promotion
  2. Q & A Session – Leave of Absence Violation?
  3. Q & A Session – Unfair Hiring Practice?

Pay & Benefits
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  1. Gregory Long is executive director of the Thrift Savings Plan. Tom Brown/Staff

    More feds investing in TSP's L Funds

    • May. 20, 2013

    The number of Thrift Savings Plan participants enrolled in the L, or lifecycle, Funds reached a record 864,469 in April.

  1. DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers
  2. Report: Recruit more science and tech talent
  3. DoD employees to get 11 furlough days
  4. Obama orders gender pay gap study
  1. More Pay & Benefits
  2. Federal Pay and Performance, Federal Retirement Benefits, Federal Health Care

Departments
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  1. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester

    • May. 21, 2013

    Federal agencies snapped to respond Tuesday to the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, the first major natural disaster to strike since sequester-related …

  1. Sequester doesn't add up for IGs
  2. GSA starts effort to improve cybersecurity in procurements
  3. How State Department was duped in $60M fraud scheme
  4. Tangherlini: Tighter budgets mean bigger role for GSA
  1. More Departments:
  2. Defense, Postal Service, Homeland Security, OMB

Agency News
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  1. VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team

    OMB's director has asked U.S. Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team on an interim basis. Thomas Brown/Staff
    • May. 21, 2013

    Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget's management team, following the departure of OMB's No. 2 official this month.

  1. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester
  2. Former IRS head says he didn't know of Tea Party affair
  3. Sequester doesn't add up for IGs
  4. News Briefs: May 20, 2013
  1. More Agency News:
  2. Federal Budget, Leaders & Agencies, Program Management, White House

Personnel
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  1. Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS

    Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called the agency's actions appalling and said the additional information requested was far too onerous. Mike Morones / Staff
    • May. 16, 2013

    The IRS inspector general blamed 'ineffective management' for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a …

  1. Obama orders gender pay gap study
  2. IG frustrated by OPM's handling of improper payments to dead retirees
  3. Pension accuracy slips as OPM picks up pace
  4. Sequester Changes Rules on DoD Contractor Background Reinvestigations
  1. More Personnel:
  2. OPM, Recruiting & Retention, Labor Management Relations, Insourcing/Outsourcing

Congress
SEE MORE Congress

  1. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester

    • May. 21, 2013

    Federal agencies snapped to respond Tuesday to the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, the first major natural disaster to strike since sequester-related …

  1. Former IRS head says he didn't know of Tea Party affair
  2. IRS acting commissioner resigns in wake of scandal
  3. Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS
  4. DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers
  1. More Congress:
  2. House, Senate, Federal Appropriations, Bill Tracker, GAO
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