Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani has a reputation as one of the deadliest Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, and according to Lt. Gen. Michael L. Oates, he is “living up to his reputation.” He’s responsible for at least one assassination attempt against Hamid Karzai, the Afghan President, and the deadly Camp  Chapman Attack on December 30, 2009, the [...]

In successfully uncovering the source of a recent salmonella outbreak, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used a new tool — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe for discounts when they buy groceries. “It was really exciting. It was a break in the investigation for sure,” according to CDC [...]

College students nationwide are invited to participate in NASA’s fourth annual systems engineering paper competition, where awards include cash scholarships and VIP invitations to attend future space shuttle or rocket launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to [...]

Following the earthquake in Haiti, the FBI and the National Center for Disaster Fraud launched a phone hotline for people to report suspected fraud associated with relief efforts. Now, the two agencies have joined forces again to identify similar fraud activity emerging from the Chilean earthquake disaster. The National Center for Disaster Fraud was first [...]

As many as 168,000 Department of Defense employees could be moved out of the National Security Personnel System back to the General Schedule between May and September, Federal Times reports. The DoD announced earlier this year the establishment of the National Security Personnel System Transition Office and John H. James Jr. was appointed the director [...]

The Obama administration has plans to re-energize a fallen satellite program that is over budget and out of time. Before plans can change, the administration needs to convince Congress that the changes  will be enough to fix the failing program. The White House has asked for a budget increase of more than $400 million. Congress [...]

Today, the Department of Defense will resume payments for college courses and job training for spouses who have previously applied for grants. The program was halted last month, with very little warning or reason. The year old program pays up to $6,000 for career advancement. The official in charge of the program apologizes for suspending [...]

Beth Simone Noveck is the United States deputy chief technology officer and director of the White House Open Government Initiative. Currently on leave from her academic career, she previously taught at the New York Law School in the areas of intellectual property, innovation and constitutional law, as well as courses on electronic democracy and electronic [...]

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson took the stage at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to reiterate her agency’s key focus points and to paint a picture of American economic success coupled with a fulfillment of the EPA’s mission. “Well-conceived, effectively implemented environmental protection is good for economic growth,” said Jackson. “Let me repeat that: [...]

Instead of building its new billion-dollar enterprise data center, NASA has decided to make major changes to its data-center strategy. NASA said it was postponing the release of a long-awaited request for proposal for the new data center in light of new Office of Management and Budget  requirements regarding cloud computing, green IT, virtualization and [...]