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With a partial government shutdown now entering its third week nearly 400,000 furloughed federal employees remain unsure how to fill their vacant days, but are finding ways to stay busy.

Federal employees, contractors, spouses and lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated by the delayed pay and lost work, with many airing their grievances on social media.

Furloughed and excepted federal employees said the government shutdown is prompting them to make tough decisions about their bills, mortgage and family obligations.

Hundreds of government scientists are missing three major scientific conferences this week because of the partial government shutdown

Pricing information in contract bids remains secret, not that contractors don’t sometimes try. Recent Freedom of Information Act decisions have upheld that principle on recompetes.

The space agency says hackers got into a server containing personal data, including social security numbers, and stole data.

In today’s Federal Newscast, after requests from Congress, the Government Accountability Office will look into how the Department of Veterans Affairs developed its strategy for its electronic health record modernization program. 

In today’s Federal Newscast, NASA received eighth consecutive clean financial audit opinion for fiscal year 2018.

The General Services Administration is creating new special item numbers under its IT schedule to make it easier for agencies to buy mobile computing services.

Astronauts who went to the Moon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 collected numerous samples of rocks and dust. Some were gifts or goodwill gestures but many have been lost or stolen.