People
IG: Coast Guard struggles with homeland security
It is having trouble meeting those goals in addition to its traditional responsibilities, a new report states.
Acquisition
GSA to go ahead with Alliant
Officials must decide specific remedy after court rules in favor of protesters.
People
Letter: Day trading under Thrift Savings Plan could distract employees
Does anyone have stats on how many of these "day traders" are using government machines during work hours to do their trading?
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan management should charge accounts in excess of limit
I don't see why I should have to pay for the day traders to try to time the market; why can't TSP charge their accounts for the fees in excess of the two per month?
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan management should charge accounts in excess
I don't see why I should have to pay for the day traders to try to time the market; why can't TSP charge their accounts for the fees in excess of the two per month?
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan participants going over the limit should pay
What concerns me -- and I want stopped -- is everyone else losing money because of these 3,000 people going overboard.
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan is not a day-trading fund
I understand why some people want to "play" the market with their TSP funds and if the management costs can be more directly passed to them then they should be able to.
People
Chertoff names director of cybersecurity center
Entrepreneur and author Rod Beckstrom will be the first director of the National Cyber Security Center.
People
Letter: Limiting trading in Thrift Savings Plan is the right choice
By increasing costs, unlimited trading decreases the value of the funds.
People
House members seek information on proposed regulations
Lawmakers question exemption for reporting fraud and abuse.
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan should cap number of traders per month
Some restriction is fair. However, it should be based on a year not a month.
People
Letter: Thrift Savings Plan is not a stock market account
The people that are protesting forget that TSP is a savings account, not a stock market account. If they want to play the stocks, by all means, they can take their money and go there.
People
Letter: Employees wishing to trade frequenty under Thrifty Savings Plan should pay
I think that those employees who want to trade frequently should be allowed to do so only if they agree to bear both the additional expense to the TSP of their trades and the cost of reprogramming TSP to bill them for those trades.
Digital Government
Duplicate systems viewed as challenge to sharing intelligence information
End users at San Diego conference say policies and practices stand in the way of effective collaboration.
Cybersecurity
What's Brewin Column: Avoid the Britney results
Intelligence needs advanced Internet search tools to find the most relevant data while bypassing the irrelevant.
Digital Government
Contract award protests charging conflicts of interest on the rise
As agencies rely more on outside contractors to evaluate bids, GAO sees more complaints about bias.
Digital Government