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The Government Accountability Office issued a proposed rule on Friday to implement a provision to the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act that would expand federal employees' right to protest competitive sourcing awards.

A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, ...

Performance measurement systems should incorporate the input of front-line federal employees and use innovative measures to accurately measure successes and failures, analysts said at a forum in Washington last week.

The new president, coming into office Jan. 20, 2009, will face what the current head of the Office of Personnel Management has called a “retirement tsunami."

The career senior ranks at the Department of Homeland Security are less diverse than in the government overall, and less diverse than the department's own workforce, according to a congressional report.

A new strategy for information security training that relies on agencies to share specialized products and best practices will roll out by the end of 2008, said representatives from the Homeland Security Department Tuesday.

A Commerce Department request to loosen standards for background checks on hundreds of thousands of temporary workers who will conduct the 2010 Census is drawing concern from House members and companies seeking federal contracts to help screen workers.

Unions at the Environmental Protection Agency have pulled out of a long-standing partnership with management, saying Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has failed to deal in good faith on issues such as scientific integrity and job evaluations.

Drowning under a growing case backlog in 2001, the Social Security Administration rehired 152 of its retired claims representatives, office attorneys, administrative law judges and other employees on a part-time basis. By 2006, 392 retirees were on board.

Richard Westfield acknowledges his small agency, the National Labor Relations Board, doesn’t possess the most sought-after data in government. But that doesn’t mean his agency is not a target for hackers.