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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
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
A long dormant and little known presidentially appointed panel charged with overseeing how federal laws affect Americans' civil liberties will meet behind closed doors next week to discuss the National Security Agency's so-called PRISM program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
President Obama will appoint United Nations ambassador Susan Rice as his new national security adviser, replacing Tom Donilon, officials said Wednesday.
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 IRS spent about $50 million on 220 conferences between 2010 and 2012, according to information released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
President Obama plans to nominate James Comey, a former senior Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, to replace Robert Mueller as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a government official knowledgeable of the nomination.
President Obama plans to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.
President Obama plans to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be the next director of the Office of Personnel Management.
President Obama said Wednesday he plans to nominate acting administrator Dan Tangherlini to become the official head of the General Services Administration.
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.
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.
The nation's top tax official apologized for the agency's treatment of conservative groups, denied he lied to Congress about it, and insisted that politics did not motivate the agency's decision to give Tea Party groups extra scrutiny.
President Obama has named a new acting IRS commissioner.
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.
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.
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.
Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year's benefits conference.
I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
President Obama faces a potentially big Senate battle over his nominee for labor secretary, Thomas Perez.
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.
More than 35 years ago, as a newly minted law school graduate, I moved from my hometown of New York City to Washington to take a job at the Justice Department.
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.
President Obama plans to nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission, White House officials said.
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.
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.
More than a decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks exposed potentially lethal holes in law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ ability to share information, the Boston Marathon bombings are reviving questions about whether gaps persist, despite an enormous investment of money and manpower to close them.
The Senior Executives Association on Thursday honored 46 executive and professional recipients of Distinguished Rank Awards who collectively have saved the government more than $94 billion.
The Food and Drug Administration will reduce food safety inspections by about 18 percent because of federal budget cuts, which could impact the millions of people at risk of food borne illness, FDA officials cautioned Wednesday.
Sylvia Burwell won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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.
