Management

Kerry pledges to cut contractors, freeze travel spending

Democratic presidential standard-bearer John Kerry pledged Wednesday to cut 100,000 federal contractor jobs and to freeze agencies’ travel spending in an effort to trim the federal budget deficit.

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Wade's world

Defense

Regional homeland security offices will be small

A Homeland Security Department initiative to unify the field structure of its 22 agencies will not create large field bureaucracies, a top DHS official said Wednesday.

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Behind the Curtain

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Going After Absconders

Management

Focus of new acquisition panel debated

Defense

Ridge defends Homeland Security budget request

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge defended the Bush administration’s budget request for state and local first responders Monday.

Defense

Bush budget adds hundreds of immigration enforcement jobs

Hundreds of new immigration enforcement jobs, including 236 personnel to find aliens that have defied final deportation orders, would be created under President Bush’s fiscal 2005 budget proposal.

Magazine

Feds Win!

News And Analysis

Instructing Inspectors

Management

IT firm to team with FAA workers in huge job competition

FAA workers will join forces with a top IT firm to compete in one of the largest A-76 competitions in government.

Management

OMB issues guidance on "green" competitive sourcing plans

The Office of Management and Budget has asked federal agencies to craft plans for letting contractors bid on federal jobs from now through 2008.

Magazine

On the Heels of Disaster

Management

OMB to ask agencies for long-term job competition plans

OMB will ask agencies to create multi-year plans for opening federal jobs to private sector competition as a prerequisite for receiving a “green” rating in competitive sourcing.