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  1. Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, testifies before the House Select Intelligence Committee on Tuesday in Washington. The committee heard testimony on the topic of 'how the disclosed NSA programs protect Americans from terror attacks on US soil and why the disclosure of that classified information aids our adversaries.' Win McNamee / Getty Images

    NSA director: Surveillance programs foiled 50 terror plots

    National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a House committee Tuesday that 50 terror threats in 20 countries have been disrupted with the assistance of two secret surveillance programs recently disclosed by former defense contractor Edward Snow

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  2. How the CIA grows tech

    When scientists at Redlen Technologies invented a new manufacturing process for a specialized semiconductor, they knew the medical industry would be intrigued.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  3. NSA whistle-blowers, from left, Thomas Drake, J. Kirk Wiebe and William Binney. H. Darr Beiser / USA TODAY

    3 NSA veterans speak out on whistle-blower: We told you so

    When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  4. North America Chairman and CEO Sean O'Keefe Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    Debate starts over who should have access to classified material

    The revelation of a top secret US National Security Agency intelligence program by a low-level contractor with access to the sensitive data has sparked a spirited defense debate about the people who have access to classified material and whether existing

    • Jun. 17, 2013
  5. Spending on cyber operations is one of the few areas in the Pentagon that will increase in coming years. The Pentagon has requested $4.6 billion for cybersecurity expenses next year, up from $3.9 billion this fiscal year. The Pentagon expects to spend $23 billion on cyber in the next five years. The demand for people with computer skills has bid up the price for computer jobs, analysts say. MC2 Timothy Walter / Navy

    Tech hiring binge may pose security risks for government

    Among the more curious revelations to emerge from the recent NSA leak saga is how a 29-year-old high school dropout landed a $122,000 job in a sensitive government program.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  6. A wounded soldier receives treatment at a rehabilitation center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. When the soldier becomes a veteran, the Defense Department will confront a longtime challenge in transferring his health records electronically to the Veterans Affairs Department. KEVIN LAMARQUE/AFP via Getty Images

    DoD, VA have spent $1B trying to build joint health records system

    The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments appear to be abandoning plans to build a joint system to seamlessly share electronic health records when military service members become veterans.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  7. The consulting business of former Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., reaped more than $450,000 from four Energy Department research facilities despite scant documentation of the work done in return, according to an audit released Tuesday by the agency's inspector general. Win McNamee / Getty Images

    DOE made $450,000 in questionable payments to former lawmaker's firm

    A former congresswoman's consulting business reaped almost a half-million dollars from the Energy Department for questionable work, according to a new inspector general's audit.

    • Jun. 11, 2013
  8. Sen. Wyden suggests military, intel officials lied about PRISM

    A key U.S. senator on Tuesday slammed senior intelligence and Pentagon officials, suggesting they knowingly lied to Congress about domestic spying efforts by a military agency.

    • Jun. 11, 2013
  9. Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, revealed details of top-secret surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency regarding telecom data. The Guardian / Getty Images

    NSA leak creates risks for Booz Allen

    Within six years, Booz Allen Hamilton more than doubled its sales to the federal government to more than $4 billion in 2012. But within days, claims from a purported midlevel, high school dropout employee have changed everything.

    • Jun. 10, 2013
  10. Marines with Maintenance Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., work on an MATV engine at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow. Work at the two Marine Corps logistics bases will shut down for a total of 11 days between now and the end of September as civilians are furloughed. Cpl. Thomas Bricker / Marine Corps

    Furlough days mean Marine logistics bases to go dark

    Work at the Marines' two major logistics bases will effectively shut down on days this summer when civilian workers are furloughed, the chief of Marine Corps Installations and Logistics said.

    • Jun. 7, 2013
  11. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., expresses outrage over IRS spending on conferences at a hearing. H. Darr Beiser/USA Today

    Blasted by Congress, IRS apologizes for lavish events

    The tax official responsible for a lavish, $4.1 million conference in Anaheim apologized to Congress for spending at the conference — and for his performance as Mr. Spock in a 'Star Trek' parody video.

    • Jun. 6, 2013
  12. DOJ warns of fallout in Army-KBR contract dispute

    The outcome of a court battle between the Army and KBR over the final stages of LOGCAP III, the largest government services contract in U.S. history, could affect tens of thousands of federal contracts while creating '

    • Jun. 4, 2013
  13. Volunteers sift through the remains of homes damaged by a tornado in Moore, Okla, Sunday. Civilian employees at Tinker Air Force Base whose homes were destroyed or left uninhabitable by the May 20 and 31 tornadoes will be excepted from Defense Department furloughs, the Air Force said. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

    Air Force lifts furloughs for Oklahoma tornado victims

    The Air Force said June 3 it will cancel furloughs for its civilian employees who were affected by the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma.

    • Jun. 4, 2013
  14. Think tanks urge more cuts to DoD civilian workforce

    The Defense Department should cut its 800,000-strong civilian workforce as one of several steps to preserve military preparedness during a long-term budget crunch, 25 former government officials and other experts from across the political spectrum said in

    • Jun. 3, 2013
  15. House-planned cuts in fiscal 2014 budgets 'would multiply the damage of sequestration,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said at a hearing late last month. Thomas Brown / Staff

    Deeper cuts are threatened in 2014

    As agencies wrestle with the fallout from this year's sequester-related budget cuts, many face an even steeper round of reductions starting in October under a recently approved blueprint by the House Appropriations Committee.

    • Jun. 2, 2013
  16. Agencies struggling to make buildings 'green'

    Agencies are struggling to make their building portfolios more environmentally sustainable, according to scorecards for fiscal 2012 released Friday by the Office of Management and Budget.

    • May. 31, 2013
  17. DoD IG: Sequester impedes oversight

    The inspector general in charge of uncovering fraud and waste at the Pentagon says the sequester won't force any furloughs in his office, but a hiring freeze, scaled-back overtime and other cuts will hurt oversight work.

    • May. 29, 2013
  18. Gen. Keith Alexander, Cyber Command Colin Kelly / Staff

    DoD close to approving cyber attack rules

    After three years of grueling internal debate, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is poised to approve new rules empowering commanders to counter direct cyberattacks with offensive efforts of their own — without White House approval.

    • May. 28, 2013
  19. Appeals court considers appeal rights for 'sensitive' jobs

    A federal appellate court heard oral arguments Friday in a case that tests the balance between national security safeguards and civil service protections. The outcome could affect disciplinary appeal rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

    • May. 24, 2013
  20. DoD acquisition chief Frank Kendall said the Pentagon will create its own electronic health record system using commercial software. Tom Pennington/Getty Images

    Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records

    The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.

    • May. 22, 2013
  21.  Staff file photo

    DoD approves Apple iPhones, iPads for military use

    The Defense Department will allow government-issued iPhones and iPads to connect to the military's networks, the Pentagon announced Friday.

    • May. 17, 2013
  22. Steven Miller, then-deputy IRS commissioner, testifies in 2010 in front of a House Oversight subcommittee. Miller has resigned as acting commissioner of the IRS as a scandal surrounding the agency grows. Colin Kelly / Staff

    IRS acting commissioner resigns in wake of scandal

    The top official at the Internal Revenue Service stepped down Wednesday amid a fast-building scandal over agency employees allegedly targeting for excessive scrutiny conservative groups who were seeking tax-exempt status.

    • May. 16, 2013
  23. Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday. SAUL LOEB/Saul Loeb / AFP

    DNI Clapper: No furloughs for civilian intel workers

    Federal employees at civilian intelligence agencies will most likely be spared furloughs this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.

    • May. 15, 2013
  24. Report: Recruit more science and tech talent

    Federal agencies must creatively and aggressively recruit science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical employees to keep up with rising demand and competition from the private sector, according to a new report that will be released Thursday.

    • May. 15, 2013
  25. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to announce Tuesday plans to furlough most civilian employees for 11 days by the end of September. Jim Watson / AFP

    DoD employees to get 11 furlough days

    The Defense Department plans to furlough some 680,000 civilian employees for 11 days by the end of September as the result of sequester-related budget cuts.

    • May. 14, 2013
  26. A Forest Service firefighter walks on a fire break line as the 2009 Station Fire burns in the Angeles National Forest in California. Kevork Djansezian//Getty Images

    As wildfire season looms, sequester cuts firefighters

    The sequester will cost the Forest Service about 500 firefighters and 50 fire engines this year, even as the agency expects another rough season of drought-fueled wildfires.

    • May. 14, 2013
  27. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he doubts a fiscal deal can be struck — or even a framework secured — before Congress' late-summer break. Saul Loeb / AFP

    Senators: Sequester-avoiding deal not likely before Aug. recess

    The onetime target of early August for passing sweeping fiscal legislation is slowly being replaced by a consensus that striking a 'grand bargain' could prove difficult.

    • May. 13, 2013
  28. Obama directs agencies to make more data public

    Agencies are under more pressure to release government data to the public and ensure it is packaged in formats that promote widespread use and dissemination.

    • May. 9, 2013
  29. Sequester Changes Rules on DoD Contractor Background Reinvestigations

    Citing sequester and budget challenges, the arm of the Defense Department overseeing security clearances for contractors is cutting how much time people have to request so-called periodic reinvestigations.

    • May. 7, 2013
  30. Annual DoD report claims steady Chinese military expansion

    China continues to rapidly modernize and expand its military and has deployed an anti-ship missile that could attack vessels more than 1,500 kilometers away, according to a new Pentagon report.

    • May. 7, 2013
  31. Bill adds federal hiring preference for fathers of disabled vets

    Fathers would be treated the same as mothers when it comes to receiving federal hiring preferences if they have a child who is a totally disabled veteran, under a bill introduced May 6.

    • May. 7, 2013
  32. DoD halts shifting war money into base budget

    For years, the Pentagon has been working to move funding from temporary war spending accounts into the base budget, particularly for brick-and-mortar efforts that were borne out of a decade of counterinsurgency fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq — and will

    • May. 7, 2013
  33. A field of solar collectors belonging to the 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard is seen in Swanton, Ohio. Master Sgt. Beth Holliker/U.S. Air Force

    Army to spur renewable energy with $7 billion contract

    Five companies have prequalified to build and maintain geothermal energy projects for the Defense Department, under the first phase of a $7 billion Army contract.

    • May. 6, 2013
  34. A KBR employee serves a Thanksgiving dinner at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. Sgt. Sean Simmons//Army

    KBR vs. Army: On largest services contract, 'things have gotten very nasty'

    Army contracting officer Robert Egan gave contractor KBR Inc. a rare ultimatum: Provide a firm, fixed price on remaining work to close out the largest government services contract in U.S. history. Or else, he added, he was finished talking.

    • May. 5, 2013
  35. President Obama announces Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, left, as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation during an April 29 news conference at the White House. Win McNamee /Getty Images

    Obama taps Charlotte mayor to head Transportation

    President Obama announced Monday his choice of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be his next Transportation secretary, heralding the young mayor for revitalizing his city with critical investments in its transportation infrastructure.

    • Apr. 30, 2013
  36. NASA has been ranked the most innovative large agency for three consecutive years in an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service. Pictured: NASA employees celebrate as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover on Aug. 5. Brian van der Brug/Getty Images, pool

    Feds feel less empowered to innovate, survey finds

    Most federal employees look for ways to be innovative and do their jobs better, but an increasing number of feds don't feel empowered to do that, according to a new analysis by the Partnership for Public Service.

    • Apr. 29, 2013
  37. Defense Secreary Chuck Hagel said last week that DoD officials were “probably a couple of weeks away” from making a final decision on the number of furlough days that will be needed. Mark Wilson / Getty Images

    Lawmakers press DoD to avoid furloughs

    The Defense Department should rethink its plans for furloughs and other cutbacks to its civilian workforce, a bipartisan group of 126 House members said in a letter Tuesday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

    • Apr. 24, 2013
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