Management

SEC urged to flesh out performance goals

Lawmaker finds regulatory agency’s five-year strategic plan low on substance.

Management

Homeland Security unit freezes spending until end of fiscal year

Order temporarily limits purchases and travel in three of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau’s offices.

Management

House votes to curtail job competitions

Lawmakers support a House member in his second attempt to force the Bush administration back to the drawing board.

Management

EEOC awards $4.9 million contract for customer service center

Choice of Virginia contractor stirs criticism.

Management

Social Security, union clash over sexual orientation contract provisions

Union claims agency seeks to remove provisions allowing gays and lesbians to file grievances alleging discrimination.

Management

EEOC approves plan for national customer service center

Under the proposal endorsed by three of four commissioners, a contractor would set up and run the center.

Management

Panelists discuss evolving role of federal CFOs

Lawmakers invite witnesses to offer ideas on where the head of finance best fits in agencies’ management structures.

News

House votes to bar IRS from outsourcing tax collection

Provision prohibits the use of private sector debt collectors.

Management

House lawmaker to renew challenge of job competition rules

Democrat is again introducing language that would force Bush administration to rethink competitive sourcing guidelines.

Management

GAO gives advice on passing governmentwide audit

Auditors recommend ways the government can get past obstacles to a clean opinion.

Management

Democrats discuss potential obstacles to oversight of Iraq contracts

Concerns raised over contractor’s role in maintaining a central database of government purchase information.

Management

Senate seeks to halt competition for immigration jobs

White House threatens to veto the spending bill over the provision, which mirrors one passed by the House over the summer.

Management

EEOC to vote on customer service center proposal

Commissioners have until Friday to weigh in on a proposal to let contractors run the center.

Management

Senator renews attacks on revised version of job competition rules

Senate panel supports a measure to repeal the revised version of Circular A-76, the Bush administration’s rule book on competitive sourcing.

Management

Bush pledges resources for war on terror, strengthening of domestic programs

The president’s acceptance speech in New York focuses on homeland security and his promises to help federal programs better serve the public.

Management

Pentagon encourages environmentally friendly acquisitions

New guidelines push Pentagon officials to buy recycled products.

News

GAO: FBI's antiterrorism focus not harming traditional work

As the bureau concentrates on terrorism, other agencies pick up the slack for drug-related, white-collar and violent crimes.

Management

OPM retools management awards program

Changes are designed to align the President's Quality Awards to the Bush administration’s five management goals.

Management

Poll finds government falling in public’s esteem

The portion of Americans expressing a positive view of the government fell by seven percentage points in the past year, a Gallup survey finds.

News

Discrimination issues on the agenda at EEOC conference

Civil rights advocates say the agency falls short in helping implement a 2002 anti-discrimination law.