The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to increase its cybersecurity research spending by 50 percent over the next five years, DARPA Director Regina Dugan said Monday according to a report in InformationWeek. DARPA’s budget request for fiscal year 2012, which began Oct. 1, called for its cyber research funding to jump more than 73 [...]

Once considered not on the table, cuts to health and retirement benefits are being considered by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, according to a report by the New York Times. The Pentagon is facing budget cuts of $450 billion, between 7 and 8 percent of its budget, over the next decade. During an interview with the [...]

Federal Times is reporting the Air Force is set to cut 2,100 civilian positions through restructuring and workforce reshaping at the Air Force Materiel Command. It plans to cut 13,500 positions by Oct. 1, 2012. This is all part of the Air Force’s broader effort to reduce and reshape its workforce. Brig. Gen. Gina Grosso, [...]

The U.S. is not as open as it should be when it comes to cyber weapons and when it intends to use them against foreign hackers, according to a former number-two uniformed officer in the U.S. military as reported by Reuters. James Cartwright, a four-star Marine Corps general who retired in August as the vice [...]

President Obama announced three new initiatives to help veterans find jobs during a speech from the Rose Garden Monday and asked Congress to pass two provisions in his jobs proposal that would grant businesses tax credits for every unemployed veteran hired. The Returning Heroes Tax Credit would cover 40 percent of: $6,000 of wages for [...]

The Internal Revenue Service is the latest agency to offer its employees buyouts and early retirements, according to a report from Federal News Radio. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said in a statement buyouts will be offered to employees whose positions do not involve “direct service or enforcement interactions with taxpayers.” Shulman also said the outlook [...]

The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to debut its own version of USAJobs to launch Nov. 11 that will display job opportunities in the department, “VA for Vets.” The website has an online job search board, self-assessment tools, a resume builder and military skills translator to assist veterans in both identifying and applying jobs [...]

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved legislation Thursday to reduce the federal workforce by attrition by 10 percent over the next three years. By a 23-14 vote, the panel approved the bill which would allow agencies to hire only one federal employee to replace every three workers who retire or leave their job. [...]

A new report from the Merit Systems Protection Board reveals that a sizable minority of federal employees say telework can have a negative affect on on work unit dynamics. At the same time, an even larger majority say telework has a positive or neutral impact. The report is based on a 2009 survey of approximately [...]

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has cleared a bill that requires agencies to post government spending numbers on specific programs on government performance data websites, NextGov reported. According to Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H), who introduced the bill this month, the Government Results Transparency Act “would build a bridge between performance data and spending [...]