Defense

Plan to meet baggage screening deadline takes shape

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta on Wednesday announced that the government would rely more heavily on trace detection technology to meet a year-end deadline for screening checked baggage for explosives than previously planned.

Management

Bush to nominate management deputy

News

Bush administration signs off on VA job competition strategy

The Department of Veterans Affairs has developed a process that should allow it to meet a Bush administration target for competitive sourcing—potentially forcing more than 27,000 VA employees to compete for their jobs with private companies.

Management

Alternative to traditional job competitions emerges

Federal employees who face the prospect of losing their jobs to private firms might be able to keep them under a new process developed by the Interior Department that may spread to other agencies.

Management

Agencies quietly submit annual performance reports to Congress

With virtually no fanfare, federal agencies submitted their annual performance reports to Congress last Friday.

Magazine

Teaching The ABCs

Management

GAO ruling could cripple A-76 competitions, military services say

Hundreds of military installations could be forced to restart their public-private job competitions unless a controversial General Accounting Office ruling is overturned, according to Defense officials.