Defense
State and USAID embrace data visualization to promote missions
By graphically portraying a range of data sets, officials hope to tell compelling stories about global crises.
Pay & Benefits
Air Force offers 6,000 civilian employees buyout options
Effort to reduce personnel is part of a Defensewide efficiency initiative.
Pay & Benefits
Employee groups criticize Obama’s deficit-cutting plan
Labor-management council discusses president’s proposals and performance management strategy.
News
NASA research center offers 120 employees buyouts
Move will realign the facilitys workforce with a new focus on deep space exploration.
Defense
Army offering 33 buyouts for civilian employees
The Materiel Command also will be accepting early retirement applications and invoking reassignments and hiring freezes to cut 1,660 positions.
News
OMB urges agencies to pay small business contracts faster
New guideline cuts the recommended payment time in half.
News
Advisory committee looks for ways to improve charity drive
Developing better technology and collecting more data on potential donors are among suggestions.
Defense
Panel discusses the challenges and future of diplomacy after 9/11
Former diplomats look at U.S. branding, the militarization of international relations and the consequences of a young Foreign Service.
Pay & Benefits
Group urges debt committee to consider rural feds
Workforce cuts would fall heavily on small towns and rural areas, where federal agencies may be among the largest employers.
News
Capital area chapter of fundraising campaign continues to think big
Leaders are hoping employees in and around Washington will top last year’s record-breaking $67 million in charitable donations.
News
Federal charity drive launching 50th year
OPM aims to increases the amount of money raised and the number of feds who donate through the Combined Federal Campaign.
Defense
Homeland Security purchase card oversight not up to snuff, watchdog finds
Most transactions fail to meet OMB standards, partly due to confusing and incomplete guidance from the department, IG finds.
Defense
Medical museum prepares move from Walter Reed campus
Transition is tricky for the diverse collection that includes the bullet that killed Lincoln and a large number of antique wet tissue samples.
News
NIH releases new conflict of interest rules for researchers
Transparency advocates are disappointed the new regulations don’t go further.
News
FEMA coordinating with regional offices, state governments to prepare for Hurricane Irene
Irene is predicted to hit the coast of the Carolinas on Saturday morning.
Pay & Benefits
OPM chief discusses new diversity initiative
John Berry wants to see better minority representation at the senior management level.
Defense
Military faces stark choices in coming budget battles
Rising personnel and health care costs are forcing painful management decisions, leaders say.
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