Federal employees often wonder if their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is sufficient for retirement. Comparing individual balances to age-group averages and medians offers a valuable benchmark. Years of ...

On the smallest instances (12–21 cities) both algorithms find identical or near-identical tours, which is expected since these are close to optimal for either method at this scale. On the two largest ...

Financial experts don’t recommend taking out loans against retirement accounts such as the military’s Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), but if you’re stuck in a financial emergency, it might be your best ...

Starting January 1, 2026, Federal employees and retirees will be able to convert money from their traditional Thrift Savings Plan accounts to a Roth TSP account. Federal employees can make their ...

The Thrift Savings Plan continues its run of month-over-month gains. New data from the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board shows all 16 funds showed positive results in September as compared to ...

Summary: Vanguard’s conservative stance and Bank of America’s bullish forecast are sending mixed signals to federal investors. Terry Gerton I thought I’d pick up where we left off in our last ...

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a quintessential challenge in computational theory, involves finding the shortest route that visits each city exactly once before returning to the starting point.

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a classic combinatorial optimization problem, has been extensively studied for many years. Recently, the Multi-solution Traveling Salesman Problem ...

The TSP has prepared a new fact sheet titled, Information for TSP Participants Leaving Federal Employment that provides useful information for employees who may find themselves facing the end of their ...

The US Federal Thrift Savings Plan recently crossed the $900 billion asset threshold and continues to add a steady stream of new participants to the more than 7 million accountholders it already ...