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  1. Acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini says he is confident the agency can demonstrate to its customers that its contracts and programs can save them money. Mike Morones / Staff

    Tangherlini: Tighter budgets mean bigger role for GSA

    Dan Tangherlini wants more of your business — a lot more.

    • May. 19, 2013
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Afghanistan overtaxes U.S. contractors, IG finds

    Afghanistan has slapped US-funded contractors working on reconstruction efforts with nearly $1 billion in taxes since 2008, often in spite of clear tax exemption agreements, a government watchdog has found.

    • May. 14, 2013
  7. 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
  8. In this stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. is on the left. Gerald L Nino / CBP.gov

    Is a billion-dollar border security program finally due?

    The Department of Homeland Security has taken a positive step in one of the longer running procurement sagas of recent years, issuing downselect notices to several contractors to compete in the next phase of a controversial border security program, source

    • May. 14, 2013

  9. 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

  10. In tracking down contract overcharges, GSA goes slowly

    When the General Services Administration inspector general uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharges by a contractor, the watchdog office wasted little time in telling GSA management to recoup the money.

    • May. 7, 2013
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. A vacant, GSA-owned warehouse in Washington hosted a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee field hearing on April 25. Thomas Brown / Federal Times

    Lawmakers seek quicker property disposal

    Lawmakers pressed the General Services Administration Thursday to more quickly dispose of vacant buildings.

    • Apr. 25, 2013
  15. Dorothy Robyn, public buildings commissioner at GSA, said the agency has shifted its focus to renovating old courthouses instead of building new ones, which saves money. Staff

    GAO recommends a halt to 11 courthouse projects

    The General Services Administration should halt all 11 courthouse construction and renovation projects planned for the next five years to better review costs and space needs, the Government Accountability Office recommends.

    • Apr. 17, 2013
  16. Jim Ghiloni, director of GSA's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services program management office Thomas Brown / Staff

    OASIS would be one-stop integrated services shop

    The General Services Administration wants to be the government’s source for complex, integrated services, such as financial management, logistics and program management.

    • Apr. 17, 2013
  17. Former OPM director John Berry is seen in a file photo. File

    Focus of IG investigation now oversees GSA’s IT supply schedule program

    An ongoing investigation by the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general into contract steering and wasteful spending raises questions about a former OPM official who left the agency in September 2011 to oversee the General Services Administration’s biggest federal supply schedules program.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  18. GSA recruited about 80 small businesses in 2010 to participate in a pilot program to track their emissions, but businesses slowly dropped out. GSA shut the program down in November - nearly nine months early - because low participation made the program too expensive. AFP / Getty Images

    Contractors, agencies struggle to measure ‘greenness’ of purchases

    Three years ago, the General Services Administration came up with a plan to give preferential treatment to contractors that track their greenhouse gas emissions. So far, that plan remains a goal rather than a reality.

    • Apr. 3, 2013

  19. News Digest: April 1

    A federal judge has ordered the General Services Administration to re-evaluate bids for its billion-dollar e-travel contract awarded last June.

    • Mar. 31, 2013
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