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Alyssa Rosenberg

News

Personnel chiefs on the hook for hiring reform

How human capital officers respond to the challenge of fixing a broken system could define their legacy.

Features

Facing the Music

The government’s maestros of personnel must manage a series of high-profile challenges.

Oversight

Chief of the Year: Human Capital

Jeff Neal, chief human capital officer, Homeland Security Department.

News

Goodbye and Thank You

News

Marketing Federal Service

Pay & Benefits

TRICARE Triage

The Pentagon is looking for ways to nurse its insurance program back to better financial health, but one proposal already has critics.

News

Counterprogramming at OPM

News

Pay Perils

News

Lawmakers and Military Pay and Benefits

Pay & Benefits

Personnel agency clarifies policies for insuring adult children

New cutoff age only takes effect on Jan. 1, 2011, but dependents who turn 22 before that can purchase a temporary continuation of health coverage.

Oversight

Lawmakers sponsor bill to allow earlier FEHBP enrollment for adult kids

Legislation would extend coverage to unmarried dependents during 2010.

News

Freudian Slip, Or Army Humor?

News

Oil Slicks

Pay & Benefits

TSP funds thrive in April

All but one of the offerings in the Thrift Savings Plan grew last month.

News

KSA Quandaries

News

Blue Ribbons and Government Needs

Pay & Benefits

Labor relations authority begins regulatory reform effort

Group announces proposed changes on the appeals process and how arbitrators award damages.