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OPM's National Background Investigative Bureau has a backlog of 700,000. Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council, says this is becoming a national security concern and Congress isn't doing enough to cut it down.
In today's Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report says the Navy's shipyards are in such bad shape they can no longer meet the service's operational needs.
GSA is betting on new online ledger technology, blockchain, as a way for agencies to modernize their legacy systems
The Warrior Transition Battalion at Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington State has added diving with sharks to its list of coping skills to teach wounded soldiers
The Volcker Alliance and the Partnership for Public Service have launched a fresh try at reforming federal civil service.
The U.S. Army is making plans to complete an upgrade project in two years that was estimated to take five, according to Col. Troy Crosby
In today's Federal Newscast, Senator Ron Johnson introduces two new amendments to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act which would increase monitoring of how much "official time" federal employees are using.
In the Senate, there is a new argument over State Department funding.
Few professional staff members on Capitol Hill have formal technology backgrounds to help draft legislation.
Given the new iPhone's price, federal CIOs may decide to wait for its security features.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department decides it will not be reopening the case against IRS executive Lois Lerner for her role in targeting conservative groups.
When two really big hurricanes approached the U.S., people all over were glued to weather reports. What they couldn't see is what one group says is an agency partly hollowed out by vacancies.
Last week was filled with developments affecting federal contractors, including progress, if you can call it that, on the budget front and people moving closer to key administration positions.
Special Publication 800-53, published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, contains hundreds of security controls organizations can adopt to keep their computers and data safer.