The partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration ended last week, but the dispute that precipitated it is carrying on and could continue past the deadline. The Hill reports the temporary extension
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The amount of space the federal government leases should be reduced, but the current lease-scoring system hinders such efforts, a Government Accountability Office report says. The Washington Business Journal reports a Senate
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The Energy Department on Thursday relaunched its website as part of its comprehensive website reform. The new website was created through a complete overhaul of its front-end and back-end design. It now
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Chief information officers at federal agencies will have more power to manage the agency IT programs, including true portfolio management for all IT, the Office of Management and Budget said. OMB Director
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The Education Department will start offering a second round this year of buyouts and early retirements to employees. Government Executive obtained an email sent Monday by Robert Buggs, the department’s chief human
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The defense intelligence community is growing in the Charlottesville, Va., area and Piedmont Virginia Community College is playing a part in it. PVCC and the Ohio-based Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human
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The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday it continued to lose money in fiscal 2011 and could be forced to default on payments to the federal government absent congressional action. USPS had a
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced Sunday he is staying on the job at President Barack Obama’s request. Reuters reports Geithner considered stepping down after the federal debt ceiling was raised. However, Obama
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Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) proposed legislation Tuesday to extend the current two-year pay freeze to three more years and restrict bonuses during that period. Government Executive reports the
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Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan agreement Thursday over legislation to extend the operating authority of the Federal Aviation Administration, ending a two-week partial shutdown that furloughed 4,000 FAA workers. The AP reports
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