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  1. 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.

    • Jun. 16, 2013
  2. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, and Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., launched an effort to overhaul the nation's tax code last month. H. Darr Beiser / USA TODAY

    Tea Party scandal could lead to IRS restructuring

    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.

    • Jun. 14, 2013
  3. 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 Thursday. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    FBI director cites harm to national security from Snowden's leaks

    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

    • Jun. 13, 2013

  4. DOJ planned 'state secrets' privilege in Booz Allen case

    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.

    • Jun. 12, 2013

  5. EEOC orders DEA to address bias against female agents

    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.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  6. Sen. Rob Portman speaks at the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in August. The Ohio Republican is demanding answers from VA following revelations that nearly half a million electronic records were deleted from a VA computer system last month. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

    Senator demands answers about 464,000 deleted VA grant, loan files

    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.

    • Jun. 10, 2013

  7. Federal workforce dips 20 percent since May 2010 peak

    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.

    • Jun. 10, 2013

  8. News in brief: Week of June 10

    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.

    • Jun. 9, 2013
  9. 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

  10. WH: Phone records 'critical tool' to fight terrorism

    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

    • Jun. 6, 2013
  11. Strong Castle Inc., decertified as a HUBZone contractor, is located in Washington's Chinatown section, in the red brick building second from left. Thomas Brown / Staff

    IRS contractor loses SBA certification

    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.

    • Jun. 5, 2013

  12. OPM to offer buyouts, early outs

    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.

    • Jun. 4, 2013

  13. TSP investments once again halted due to debt ceiling impasse

    The Treasury Department has once again suspended investing in the Thrift Savings Plan's G Fund to avoid breaching the debt ceiling.

    • Jun. 4, 2013
  14. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel meets with the media at the Pentagon earlier this year. Thomas Brown / Staff file photo

    Pentagon, Regional Staffs Growing Despite Orders to Trim Personnel

    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.

    • Jun. 3, 2013

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. News Briefs: May 27, 2013

    President Obama plans to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.

    • May. 26, 2013
  18. The IRS, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, and the Housing and Urban Development Department — which have a combined staff of about 116,600 — closed down entirely May 24 to help meet their mandated budget cuts. Above is the IRS headquarters in Washington. Mark Wilson / Getty Images

    5% of federal workforce furloughed Friday as agencies shut down

    Roughly 117,000 federal employees are on leave without pay Friday in the first major round of sequester-driven furloughs.

    • May. 24, 2013

  19. Agencies respond to tornado under shadow of sequester

    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.

    • May. 21, 2013
  20. OMB's director has asked U.S. Chief Information Officer Steve VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team on an interim basis. Thomas Brown/Staff

    VanRoekel to lead OMB's management team

    Steven VanRoekel will lead the Office of Management and Budget's management team, following the departure of OMB's No. 2 official this month.

    • May. 21, 2013
  21. Outgoing acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller (left) and former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman arrive May 21 at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

    Former IRS head says he didn't know of Tea Party affair

    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.

    • May. 21, 2013
  22. General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller expects the sequester to cost GSA $281 million in lost savings and revenue in 2013. Staff

    Sequester doesn't add up for IGs

    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

    • May. 20, 2013

  23. News Briefs: May 20, 2013

    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.

    • May. 19, 2013
  24. Mueller Getty Images

    FBI's Mueller expects furloughs next year

    FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers last week he expects the sequester's budget cuts will force him to furlough agents in fiscal 2014.

    • May. 16, 2013
  25. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called the agency's actions appalling and said the additional information requested was far too onerous. Mike Morones / Staff

    Justice Department launches criminal probe at IRS

    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.

    • May. 15, 2013
  26. 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. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images

    Courts seek $73M in emergency funding

    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.

    • May. 15, 2013
  27. 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

  28. FBI to investigate Tea Party tax affair

    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.

    • May. 14, 2013
  29. Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department's inspector general warned. Above, a Continental Airlines jet rolls out to the runway at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., in a file photo. Karen Bleier / AFP

    Planes on the same runway more often, watchdog warns

    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.

    • May. 13, 2013

  30. News Briefs: May 13, 2013

    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. 12, 2013

  31. 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
  32. A Border Patrol agent guards a suspect caught along the Rio Grande River in Texas. John Moore/Getty Images

    Federal employees focus on mission in face of adversity

    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.

    • May. 6, 2013
  33. Passengers line up to a Transportation Security Administration officer at Portland International Airport in Oregon. Because of the sequester, TSA has cut employees' overtime hours. Natalie Behring / Getty Images

    Sequester hits home for federal employees

    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.

    • May. 6, 2013
  34. 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. Thomas Brown / Staff

    Zients steps down as OMB deputy director

    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.

    • May. 3, 2013

  35. Government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week

    Federal, state and local government employees celebrate Public Service Recognition Week this year from May 5-11.

    • May. 3, 2013
  36. Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel Gannett Government Media Corp

    Proposed funding for IT initiatives cut 9% in ’14

    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.

    • Apr. 28, 2013
  37. 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, but many observers see little chance of fully rolling back the sequester and the controversy is not going away. AFP

    A rush to soften impact of sequester

    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.

    • Apr. 28, 2013

  38. News Digest: April 29, 2013

    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.

    • Apr. 28, 2013
  39. Increasing delays are being reported as air traffic controllers are furloughed at airports across the country. AFP / Getty Images

    Delays stack up in airports: Start the blame game

    How much frustration will build up in the skies before politicians on the ground in Washington do something about flight delays?

    • Apr. 24, 2013
  40. JFK international airport in New York is among those expected to be hardest hit by delays related to the furloughing of air traffic controllers. JFK International Airport

    Fliers on watch for delays from FAA furloughs

    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.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  41. IRS employees to get 5 to 7 furlough days

    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.

    • Apr. 22, 2013

  42. News Briefs: April 22, 2013

    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.

    • Apr. 21, 2013
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