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  1. How the CIA grows tech

    When scientists at Redlen Technologies invented a new manufacturing process for a specialized semiconductor, they knew the medical industry would be intrigued.

    • Jun. 18, 2013
  2. U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee Thomas Brown / Staff

    Lawmakers call for IT security reforms at VA

    House lawmakers are calling for sweeping reforms at the Veterans Affairs Department — including credit monitoring for all veterans and their dependents whose personal information resides in VA's database — following recent revelations that multiple foreig

    • Jun. 14, 2013

  3. House panel chair calls VA data loss 'troubling'

    Another lawmaker is raising concerns about an incident at the Veterans Affairs Department involving the deletion of hundreds of thousands of electronic documents and images last month, including active loan files.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  4. A wounded soldier receives treatment at a rehabilitation center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. When the soldier becomes a veteran, the Defense Department will confront a longtime challenge in transferring his health records electronically to the Veterans Affairs Department. KEVIN LAMARQUE/AFP via Getty Images

    DoD, VA have spent $1B trying to build joint health records system

    The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments appear to be abandoning plans to build a joint system to seamlessly share electronic health records when military service members become veterans.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  5. The consulting business of former Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., reaped more than $450,000 from four Energy Department research facilities despite scant documentation of the work done in return, according to an audit released Tuesday by the agency's inspector general. Win McNamee / Getty Images

    DOE made $450,000 in questionable payments to former lawmaker's firm

    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.

    • Jun. 11, 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. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., expresses outrage over IRS spending on conferences at a hearing. H. Darr Beiser/USA Today

    Blasted by Congress, IRS apologizes for lavish events

    The tax official responsible for a lavish, $4.1 million conference in Anaheim apologized to Congress for spending at the conference — and for his performance as Mr. Spock in a 'Star Trek' parody video.

    • Jun. 6, 2013
  8. Faulty and improper security practices among the Veterans Affairs Department's senior ranks have exposed VA's most sensitive systems and databases to 'unchallenged and unfettered access' by nearly a dozen state-sponsored attackers, according to scathing testimony from VA's former chief security officer. Staff

    VA networks besieged by foreign attackers, IG says

    Foreign attackers have repeatedly penetrated Veterans Affairs Department networks for at least the past three years, potentially gaining access to millions of unencrypted veterans records and other sensitive databases, according to House lawmakers and VA

    • Jun. 4, 2013

  9. Union urges probe of health hazards at 2 VA facilities

    The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for an investigation into high levels of a potentially deadly bacterium at two Veterans Affairs Department facilities.

    • Jun. 4, 2013
  10. House-planned cuts in fiscal 2014 budgets 'would multiply the damage of sequestration,' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said at a hearing late last month. Thomas Brown / Staff

    Deeper cuts are threatened in 2014

    As agencies wrestle with the fallout from this year's sequester-related budget cuts, many face an even steeper round of reductions starting in October under a recently approved blueprint by the House Appropriations Committee.

    • Jun. 2, 2013
  11. DoD acquisition chief Frank Kendall said the Pentagon will create its own electronic health record system using commercial software. Tom Pennington/Getty Images

    Pentagon goes it alone on electronic health records

    The Defense Department is abandoning its plans to build a single, joint electronic health record system with the Veterans Affairs Department in favor of developing its own system using commercial software.

    • May. 22, 2013
  12. 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
  13. 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

  14. 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
  15. 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

  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
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