The Defense Department is accelerating its efforts to invest in clean energy, according to a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts. In an 84-page report released Wednesday, Pew researchers found the Pentagon increased clean energy investments 300 percent between 2006 and 2009, from $400 million to $1.2 billion. The investments are expected to pass the [...]

The National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations is sponsoring a task force who recommends more supervision in the federal workforce. The Energy Department’s Chief Human Capital Officer Mike Kane is helping to lead the task force which includes human resource officials, union representatives and employee association leaders. “This proposal says we’re going to place this [...]

The Defense Department is expanding a pilot program to share cyber threat intelligence to help better protect its prime contractors. This comes as the Pentagon continues to investigate a growing number of cases involving the mishandling or removal of classified data from military and commercial systems. The trial program, involving 20 companies, will be extended [...]

President Obama and Congress need to communicate a clear vision of what a downsized federal government should look like, according to a report from the Partnership for Public Service. In its 40-page report released Tuesday, the Partnership said the president should appoint a high-level official to lead the cost-savings effort, establish priorities and communicate those [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has installed rules for its Net Neutrality policy, which will go into effect Nov. 20 for broadband access providers. The rules are to ensure certainty and predictability to all Internet stakeholders in terms of content, service providers and consumers. Rules include: Transparency requiring disclosure of the network management terms and broadband services. No [...]

President Obama fielded questions and plugged his recently-proposed American Jobs Act at a LinkedIn town hall in Mountain View, Calif. on Monday. Obama predicted that if the act were passed with all its measures intact, it would increase GDP by close to two percent and employ 1.9 million people. Passing the bill “is the most [...]

The Senate approved a deal Monday to continue funding the federal government past Friday, the end of the fiscal year, avoiding a government shutdown. The House has scheduled a short session for Thursday to vote on the measure. Both bodies were scheduled to be in recess this week. Democrats and Republicans were deadlocked over whether [...]

The federal government paid more than $120 million in benefits annually over the last five years to dead people, according to a watchdog report released Friday. The payments are supposed to go to retired or disabled federal workers, but sometimes the payments keep going out after the employees die and the death is not reported, [...]

After rejecting a House measure to fund the government past Friday, the end of the fiscal year, the Senate will vote Monday night on a bill of its own. Failure to pass a spending bill by Thursday could result in a government shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a 5:30 p.m. Monday vote [...]

The Defense Department is looking to place a cap on the executive pay of defense contractors, extending the limit from the top five to all positions, according to an All Headline News report. Under the proposed $693,951-per-year cap, executive pay would include wages, salaries, bonuses and deferred compensation. The House has passed a pay cap [...]