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Scott Smith, a 20-year FBI veteran and former deputy assistant director for the human resources division at the bureau's headquarters in Washington, has been named assistant director of the cyber division....

Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan has announced the creation of a new privacy office and a senior career position within OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Donovan wrote in...

Deltek has released a new report on the presidential transition process, current federal environment and past impacts of administration changes on federal contracting along with analysis of candidates' agendas, policy positions...

Jessica Gaskin, an astrophysicist in the Science Research Office of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, has been appointed to lead a team of agency researchers who aim to develop a successor platform for the...

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian made space rocket headed to the International Space...

A federal task force has published a report to help prevent natural gas leaks after one such incident occurred at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility in California. The Energy Department said Tuesday the Interagency...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s board of directors is scheduled to conduct an open session meeting on Wednesday to discuss various public policies. FDIC said in a Federal Register notice published Monday it plans...

An online survey from the U.S. Postal Service's inspector general indicates a majority of U.S. residents support the concept of drone-delivered packages than those who do not with an additional large group of respondents have yet to decide. USPS...

The Obama administration has proposed to increase federal investments in research and development projects on clean energy from $6.4 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $12.8 billion in FY 2021...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host a National Trademark Expo Friday and Saturday in Washington to help educate the public on the what role trademarks play in business development and...