News Digest: June 17
The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.
The Tea Party targeting scandal shows the need for a major shake-up of the Internal Revenue Service, the chairmen of Congress's two tax-writing committees told reporters Friday morning.
Former contractor Edward Snowden's highly publicized leaks on classified government surveillance programs have harmed national security by alerting terrorists to the ways the United States monitors their communications, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Th
Last year, one day after the Justice Department signaled plans to invoke the rarely used 'state secrets privilege' in a lawsuit accusing Booz Allen Hamilton of stealing information from a technology firm, the dispute quietly ended.
The Drug Enforcement Administration must take immediate steps to stop discrimination against female special agents seeking assignments abroad, under a new decision in a long-running class-action lawsuit.
Sen. Rob Portman is demanding answers from the Veterans Affairs Department following revelations that nearly half a million electronic records, including active loan files, were deleted from a VA computer system last month.
The total federal workforce dropped by 14,000 employees in May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said June 7, bringing the government's staffing levels to its lowest point in more than five years.
Under watch from the National Security Agency and the FBI, Internet traffic of people outside the United States is being closely monitored by Silicon Valley Internet giants in a massive data-snooping agreement.
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.
The White House says that gathering telephone records has been a 'critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats,' responding to a news report that the National Security Agency has been harvesting records from millions of Verizon customers
The Small Business Administration has revoked the Historically Underutilized Business Zone status of a contractor that has come under congressional scrutiny over nearly $500 million in IRS contracts from last year.
The Office of Personnel Management is planning to offer buyouts and early retirements to nearly 300 employees — and some of those buyouts are likely to result in slower pension processing times.
The Treasury Department has once again suspended investing in the Thrift Savings Plan's G Fund to avoid breaching the debt ceiling.
The size of the Pentagon's vast oversight organizations grew by more than 15 percent from 2010 to 2012, despite efforts to pare down the Defense Department's bureaucracy, an analysis by sister publication Defense News has found.
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
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.
President Obama plans to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Roughly 117,000 federal employees are on leave without pay Friday in the first major round of sequester-driven furloughs.
Federal agencies snapped to respond Tuesday to the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, the first major natural disaster to strike since sequester-related budget cuts took effect in March.
Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget's management team, following the departure of OMB's No. 2 official this month.
Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Douglas Shulman said he was 'dismayed and saddened' by revelations that his agency targeted conservative political groups for extra scrutiny, and said he had been unaware of it.
The inspector general for the General Services Administration expects to lose out on more than a quarter-billion dollars in potential government savings next year, as the sequester-related budget cuts force the agency to scale back on efforts to uncover w
Federal agencies have closed 420 data centers and aim to shutter more than 500 others by December 2015, but plans to save billions of dollars through the consolidation effort so far appear to be falling short.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers last week he expects the sequester's budget cuts will force him to furlough agents in fiscal 2014.
The IRS inspector general blamed 'ineffective management' for the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status by IRS employees in a report released late Tuesday.
The federal courts are seeking an additional $73 million in emergency funds for this year to prevent layoffs and other repercussions from sequester-related budget cuts.
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.
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he's opened a criminal inquiry into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups.
Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles — and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions — hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department’s inspector general warned Thursday.
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.
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
Federal Times invited readers to reflect on the state of public service and on what, if anything, should be done to improve it. Following are excerpts.
Until last year, the Office of Personnel Management's program to process federal employee retirements was a sluggish, bureaucratic morass that left new retirees waiting six months to a year for their full pensions.
Jeff Zients has stepped down as the No. 2 official at the Office of Management and Budget. He had been OMB deputy director for management since June 2009 and served as the agency's acting chief since January 2012.
Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.
The Obama administration is proposing a significant budget cut next year for information technology modernization and new initiatives, which include cloud computing and mobile technology programs.
With the Federal Aviation Administration attributing about 1,000 daily flight delays to air traffic controller furloughs, Congress rushed through a bill late last week to let the agency tap other funding sources to put employees back to work.
Nine hundred Housing and Urban Development Department employees may have to move or change jobs under a restructuring that will close 16 of 80 field offices by this fall.
How much frustration will build up in the skies before politicians on the ground in Washington do something about flight delays?
Air travelers were keeping a close eye on airport departure boards Monday, hoping to get a sense of whether the threat of crushing delays from sequester-related budget cuts is real or just political bluster.
IRS employees face between five and seven furlough days between May and September because of sequester-related budget cuts, according to an email from acting Commissioner Steve Miller.
Federal judiciary leaders plan to seek more than $51 million in extra fiscal 2013 funding to offset the impact of sequester-related budget cuts on defender services, court security and other areas.