The Combined Federal Campaign, the annual charity drive targeted to federal employees, has one week left to go in its 50th anniversary season and a new commission says it should go beyond the federal workforce in the future. The CFC-50 Commission recommended in a Tuesday meeting the campaign also ask contractors and federal retirees for [...]

A House-Senate conference on the year-end omnibus spending package is convening today, according The Hill newspaper. Democratic and Republican lawmakers are meeting to discuss and come to a compromise on a piece the funding bill, which primarily covers military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It could turn into a $900 billion spending package [...]

Government agencies say they are ever-focused on cybersecurity and the National Institute of Standards and Technology appears to be an example of that. The signed Consolidated and Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012 gives NIST $750.8 million for fiscal 2012, which is a slight increase from fiscal 2011. However, one aspect that some are taking notice of, including [...]

Cybersecurity legislation appears to be the main topic on Capitol Hill of late as Congress heads toward adjourning for the year. Last week, the House Intelligence Committee approved a bill that would allow private companies to share cyber threat intelligence with the federal government. On Tuesday, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) proposed an idea on how [...]

Cyber and information technologies professionals got a work out in a recent game called Cyber Flag, taking part in a training program where teams had to defend themselves by executing cyber operations. The U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber Flag 12-1 exercise in the first week of November had some 300 in attendance, according to a release on [...]

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps announced this week in a statement that he is resigning from the agency. Copps plans to leave the agency by the end of the year after a decade of service to the FCC. According to The Hill newspaper, President Obama has nominated Jessica Rosenworcel a former Senate Commerce Committee aide, to [...]

The U.S. EPA and U.S. Army have announced they will form a partnership to find “greener” ways of using technology as part of their Net Zero initiative. On Nov. 28, a memorandum of understanding was signed to promote the use of safe and sustainable energy resources and reduce hazardous byproducts. According to the Army’s website, Net [...]

In 1882, Thomas Edison introduced the first power grid system in New York City. His direct current system initially served 59 customers in the Wall Street area at a price of $5 per kilowatt hour. Since then, the technology has ballooned, and today every U.S. state and the District of Colombia has the luxury of [...]

In a recent survey of nearly 62,000 undergraduates at 362 colleges, students put government agencies in the ranks for top 100 ideal places to work. The survey, conducted by Universum, polled students from Dec. 2010 to March 2011 and yielded the Top 100 Ideal Employer Rankings in categories including business, engineering, information technology, natural sciences and [...]

The costs of the Department of Homeland Security consolidation project has increased by at least half a billion dollars due to delays caused by budget cuts, according to a Federal Times report. The delays have also caused the relocation of more than 10,000 federal employees by up to five years. The original plan consisted of [...]