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NASA has launched eight six-month field research projects in an effort to study the changes in the Earth’s sea, air and land resources. The field studies will work to further understanding...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to publish a guide for organizations and individuals involved in projects that aim to reduce firefighter injuries and...

Jane Fountain, a political science and public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, has said the next U.S. administration should establish within the transition team a group...

The Congressional Budget Office has said a proposed House bill that would require the Department of Homeland Security to set up a program to safeguard DHS networks from insider threats would not affect...

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a crowdsourcing competition that seeks to develop novel ways to present tax information to taxpayers in an effort to help them understand the data as...

Beth Cobert Beth Cobert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management, has received support from House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) to serve as director of OPM on a permanent basis. Chaffetz urged...

Millennium Challenge Corp. is looking for a new deputy chief information officer to work at the U.S. foreign aid agency's headquarters in Washington and help its CIO oversee agencywide information technology operations. MCC...

The Office of Personnel Management has appointed James Onusko and Christy Wilder to respectively serve as team leader and deputy manager of an interagency effort to establish a National Background Investigations Bureau, Federal News Radio reported...

The General Services Administration's digital services unit 18F has closed the application period to fill two new leadership positions for director of chapters and director of custom partner solutions. The director of chapters...

NASA and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement have entered an agreement that seeks to employ the aeronautics industry's risk management practices in offshore operations in the Outer Continental Shelf. NASA said...