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  1. 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
  2. Former acting Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Steve Miller (right) and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George testify May 17 before a full House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington on 'Internal Revenue Service Targeting Conservative Groups.' President Obama sacked the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on May 15 over a scandal sparked when officials unfairly targeted conservative groups. Nicholas Kamm / AFP

    IRS draws bipartisan fire at hearing

    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.

    • May. 17, 2013
  3. 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
  4. Daniel Werfel James J. Lee / Staff

    Obama names new IRS commissioner

    President Obama has named a new acting IRS commissioner.

    • May. 16, 2013
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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

  9. 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
  10. 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

  11. 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
  12. 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

  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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

  16. Access to Federal News Radio website restored after hacking attack

    Full access to the news websites FederalNewsRadio.com and sister station WTOP.com was fully restored Saturday after a hacking attack had temporarily blocked some users' access last week.

    • May. 13, 2013

  17. Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit airport

    Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage.

    • May. 13, 2013

  18. Green of the road: Airlines, hotels, cars more eco-friendly

    When you travel these days, you're doing so in a more environmentally friendly fashion than you did a decade ago — and you probably can't even tell.

    • May. 13, 2013
  19. A TSA agent checks the luggage of a passenger at Orlando International Airport in 2011. STAN HONDA / AFP via Getty Images

    TSA officers, air marshals file legal warning over knives

    Nine groups of airline workers and travelers filed a legal challenge Monday urging the Transportation Security Administration against allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes.

    • May. 13, 2013
  20. 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
  21. In a listserv email Wednesday, an Office of Personnel Management said few benefit officers from around the federal government would have been able to attend the annual conference due to a lack of funds. Staff

    OPM cancels benefits conference

    Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year's benefits conference.

    • May. 13, 2013

  22. Budget cuts push conferences online

    Decreasing travel budgets are forcing agencies to conduct more meetings and training seminars online.

    • May. 13, 2013

  23. GOP reaction in IRS case targeting tea party groups spurs calls for probe, apology

    President Obama should apologize for the admission by the IRS that it singled out conservative tea party groups for extra scrutiny as they applied for non-profit status, Republican members of Congress said Sunday.

    • May. 12, 2013

  24. 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

  25. Public service: an opportunity, not a burden

    I entered public service under unorthodox circumstances, after a tragedy hit in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

    • May. 12, 2013
  26. The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government. JEWEL SAMAD/Jewel Samad / AFP

    Obama orders gender pay gap study

    The White House on Friday ordered agencies to start studying ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women in the federal government.

    • May. 10, 2013
  27. The Postal Service reported a $3.1 billion loss for first half of 2013. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

    Postal Service reports $3.1 billion loss for first half of 2013

    Postal Service reports latest financial quarterly results

    • May. 10, 2013
  28. Patrick McFarland, Office of Personnel Management inspector general, left, and Kenneth Zawodny, OPM associate director of retirement services, testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on federal workforce. OPM is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, McFarlan said Thursday. Thomas Brown / Staff

    IG frustrated by OPM's handling of improper payments to dead retirees

    The Office of Personnel Management is failing to chase down suspected pension fraud in its quest to speed up pension processing, the agency's inspector general testified Thursday.

    • May. 9, 2013

  29. 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
  30. President Obama is seen with Tom Perez on March 18 at the White House. Jewel Samad / AFP

    Obama faces battle over Labor secretary nominee

    President Obama faces a potentially big Senate battle over his nominee for labor secretary, Thomas Perez.

    • May. 9, 2013

  31. Pension accuracy slips as OPM picks up pace

    The accuracy of the Office of Personnel Management's calculation of new federal pensions has slipped as it has worked to speed up its retirement processes, the agency's inspector general is set to testify Thursday.

    • May. 8, 2013
  32. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said, the Social Security Administration should stop charging other agencies for access to its death records database because it is a key tool in heading off government payments to the deceased. Thomas Brown / Staff

    Senator: Free up access to SSA database to head off payments to dead

    The Social Security Administration should stop charging other agencies for access to its death records database because it is a key tool in heading off government payments to the deceased, a senator said Wednesday.

    • May. 8, 2013
  33. Federal law enforcement agencies face challenges in working with large volumes of data from multiple data bases, such as in the Boston Marathon bombing case. John Moore//Getty Images

    Quality tops agencies' data challenges

    Agencies rely on vast sources of data to fight tax fraud, improve health care, manage federal buildings and improve delivery of citizen services. But obtaining and making sense of '

    • May. 7, 2013

  34. 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
  35. OPM's Elaine Kaplan, left, and GSA's Dan Tangherlini are in 'acting' positions while their agencies await permanent leaders. They joined new Interior Secretary Sally Jewell at a recent announcement of GSA's hybrid vehicle initiative. Mike Morones/Staff

    High-level vacancies dot the Obama administration

    Barely three months into its second term, the Obama administration is confronting an epidemic of empty desks.

    • May. 7, 2013

  36. Most CIOs can't track IT spending

    Most chief information officers are not confident in their ability to estimate and track information technology spending at their agencies, a new survey finds.

    • May. 7, 2013

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. Dan Tangherlini, acting head of the General Services Administration, says recruitment challenges will make it difficult for his agency to renew and revitalize its leadership ranks. Thomas Brown/Federal Times

    Leaders fear sequester's impact on recruitment, retention, service

    The constant drumbeat of bad news and poor morale in the government is hurting recruitment and retention of mid- and upper-level employees at the General Services Administration, acting administrator Dan Tangherlini said Monday.

    • May. 6, 2013
  43. 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

  44. As OT cuts loom, OPM processes 13K pensions

    The Office of Personnel Management in April processed its third-highest number of federal pension claims.

    • May. 6, 2013
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. President Obama poses for pictures after delivering a speech to young people at the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City on May 3. Yuri Cortez/AFP via Getty Images

    Obama thanks feds as Public Service Recognition Week begins

    President Obama thanked federal employees and other government workers for their service in a letter released Sunday, the first day of Public Service Recognition Week.

    • May. 5, 2013

  48. Sequester poses public service challenges

    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.

    • May. 5, 2013
  49. Police stand guard near New Jersey beach homes that were damaged by Superstorm Sandy in November. Mark DeMaria, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supervisory meteorologist, is a finalist for a Service to America Medal for his work to improve hurricane forecast models and reduce storm damage. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

    Partnership for Public Service names 31 medal finalists

    The Partnership for Public Service has named 31 federal employees or federal employee teams as Samuel J. Heyman Service to America finalists. They will be honored May 7 in Washington as part of Public Service Recognition Week.

    • May. 5, 2013

  50. News Briefs: May 6, 2013

    Defense spending cuts are starting to take a toll on the economy, further slowing a sluggish jobs recovery.

    • May. 5, 2013
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