Civilian

Sens. Jon Tester (D-Montana) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) have asked the Office of Personnel Management for updates on how OPM will establish a new bureau that would be responsible for federal background...

The Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases has issued updated guidance designed to bolster the government's methodology for how to account and track GHGs. Howard Shelanski, Office of...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report on the challenges faced by people with mobility impairments during emergency evacuations from multi-story buildings. NIST said Friday it conducted the Perspectives of...

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch appointed Richard Hartunian of the Northern District of New York and Barbara McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan as the respective chair and vice...

Jim Yong Kim The United States has nominated current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to continue his role into a second term. The Treasury Department said Thursday Kim worked...

The General Services Administration is looking for an information technology specialist to serve as lead programmer at the GSA's Office of Inspector General. A notice posted Thursday on USAJobs stated the chosen candidate will perform programming, establish project...

NASA has sent a team of scientists and two research aircraft to Namibia as part of a mission to study how the interaction of smoke with clouds affects the climate....

The Federal Communications Commission has reopened an electronic process for service providers to file annual 911 reliability certifications on FCC's web-based portal. The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau said Friday that...

An Office of Personnel Management report says federal agencies have hired 35,364 employees since 2012 through the Pathways Programs that aim to provide students and graduates access to federal internships and...

The General Services Administration has facilitated an industry day to underscore the GSA Unified Shared Services Management office's efforts to deliver government-wide shared services across agencies. GSA said Monday government participants gave industry partners an...