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Bailout brings massive hiring, oversight challenges
Rescue effort is likely to require 1,000 additional highly-skilled civil servants and at least as many contractors.
Oversight
After Gonzales, Justice seeks to regain trust of employees
Successor's job, department officials say, will be to improve morale at headquarters and U.S. attorneys' offices.
Defense
Pentagon, State struggle to define nation-building roles
As the Pentagon moves to fill short-term gaps, it is pushing to get civilian agencies the money and authorizations they need.
Management
The Decision Makers: Intelligence Agencies
A look at the leaders of the agencies that make up the federal intelligence community.
Management
Reinventing Iraq will require bureaucratic overhaul
The good news is that Iraq has robust governmental institutions. The bad news is that rebuilding the country after the war will require dismantling them.
Defense
Three departments offer important lessons on reorganization
The last three Cabinet departments to be cobbled together from scattered components—Defense, Transportation, and Energy—all offer important lessons for today.
