Defense

Bush seeks employee support for homeland security reorganization

President Bush Wednesday asked federal employees to be patient and support his proposal for a Homeland Security Department, but did not directly address concerns about workers’ rights or pay.

Pay & Benefits

TSP’s C fund dives in June

Defense

Contract overpayments continue to plague Defense Department

Defense Department contractors returned $488 million in overpayments to the agency in fiscal 2001, despite the agency’s efforts to prevent improper payments, according to a new General Accounting Office report.

News

Pentagon ‘mayor’ dies from injuries sustained in car crash

David O. “Doc” Cooke, a longtime career civil servant known as the “mayor of the Pentagon,” died June 22 from injuries suffered two weeks ago in a car accident near Charlottesville, Va.

Pay & Benefits

Senator to introduce personnel reform bill

A coalition of business leaders, academics and good-government organizations are throwing their support behind human capital reform legislation that Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, plans to introduce Thursday.

Pay & Benefits

Patent Office suspends telecommuting program

Officials at the Patent and Trademark Office have put a popular telecommuting program on hold while they negotiate the terms of a new program with an employee union.