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The revelation of a top secret US National Security Agency intelligence program by a low-level contractor with access to the sensitive data has sparked a spirited defense debate about the people who have access to classified material and whether existing
When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.
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.
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
The House on Friday passed legislation that would overhaul how agencies manage their information technology dollars and require that each agency have only one chief information officer.
For agencies that need a little guidance on how to buy green, there is some help.
Training contracting officers ranks as the Small Business Administration's top effort toward meeting federal sustainability goals, chief operating officer Paul Christy said.
The U.S. Postal Service is planning to ramp up spending on environmentally friendly products and services by as much as 50 percent through fiscal 2020.
An Agriculture Department program that helps agencies buy environmentally friendly products made from biological or agricultural materials suffered a setback in January when Congress failed to extend funding that would allow it to test new products.
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
The U.S. Postal Service will pay almost $17.3 million to settle allegations of discrimination against employees with disabilities.
Science Applications International Corp., one of the federal government’s largest contractors, has agreed to pay $11.75 million to settle accusations that it inflated bills under federal grants to train anti-terrorism first responders, the Justice Department said Thursday.
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.
The Office of Management and Budget claims that a new approach to reviewing troubled government information technology projects has saved the government $4 billion in 2010 and 2011.
President Obama's choice to become the government's regulatory gatekeeper pledged Wednesday to tackle a backlog of pending rules if he wins Senate confirmation for the job.
The White House this year will not issue Presidential Rank Awards, which carry bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars to selected executives and senior-level professionals,an administration official confirmed to Federal Times Wednesday.
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.
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.
Among the more curious revelations to emerge from the recent NSA leak saga is how a 29-year-old high school dropout landed a $122,000 job in a sensitive government program.
Three years into a five-year program aimed at consolidating hundreds of federal data centers, the administration still does not know how many data centers it owns and operates.
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.
Edward Snowden's ability to extract sensitive data from the National Security Agency, working as a low-level contract consultant, comes as no surprise to the security community.
More than half of the nation's eligible doctors and hospitals have received federal incentive payments for adopting and using electronic health record systems, the Health and Human Services Department announced last month.
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.
The federal agency charged with providing health services to more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives is undergoing a multimillion-dollar project to upgrade its electronic health record system by 2014.
On May 13, the General Services Administration accepted a bid of nearly $3.3 million for the 221,000-square-foot James F. Battin Courthouse in Billings, Mont., after a flurry of late bidding pushed the final price up from $2.1 million. The five-story building has been vacant since last year and is contaminated with asbestos, which can be costly to remove.
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.
Within six years, Booz Allen Hamilton more than doubled its sales to the federal government to more than $4 billion in 2012. But within days, claims from a purported midlevel, high school dropout employee have changed everything.
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.
A 29-year-old former CIA employee who admitted responsibility Sunday for one of the most extraordinary leaks of classified information in U.S.
Two years ago, Virginia-based information technology contractor Carahsoft Technology Corp. was in a heated negotiation over the renewal of one of the General Services Administration's largest IT contracts.
Continuing resolutions. Sequestration. Furloughs. We are all being inundated with the gloom and doom of what's next in government. No matter what budget Congress enacts to extend the CR set to expire Sept.
New rules proposed last week by the Office of Personnel Management will allow federal employees to ease into retirement by working part time while receiving partial pensions — and could transform how managers handle generational shifts in their offices.
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.
For federal employees and those following the government, it's rare if the conversation these days doesn't turn at some point to the budget and sequestration.
Three years ago as Defense Department spending was poised for a downturn, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched a broad efficiency drive to cut staffs and stretch dollars.
Every time I read the Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments are going to develop an electronic medical records system, I want to laugh.
When a Saudi Arabian airline passenger arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport weeks ago, red flags went up, landing him in jail.
Flight attendants, law enforcement officers and lawmakers welcomed the Transportation Security Administration decision Wednesday not to allow small knives back in carry-on luggage.
The Transportation Security Administration can't ensure that its behavior-detection program is objective or cost-effective, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday.
Marriott International plans to introduce to the U.S. a European-based hotel chain that targets younger, tech- and design-savvy travelers.
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.
The Department of Homeland Security is putting the finishing touches on its new $435 million, 1.1 million-square-foot Coast Guard headquarters, in preparation for the move-in of 4,000 employees beginning Aug. 1.
The Supreme Court on June 3 ruled that a deceased federal employee's life insurance policy should go to his ex-wife, and not his widow, because the fed never changed his beneficiary designation after his divorce.
Roughly 464,000 electronic files, including active loan files, were mistakenly deleted from a Veterans Affairs Department computer system last month, Federal Times has learned.
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.
The Government Accountability Office ruled Thursday the CIA should reopen negotiations on a $600 million cloud computing contract that the agency had awarded to Amazon Web Services.
