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Kurt Volker The State Department has appointed Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, as U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations. "The United States remains fully committed to the...

Vice President Mike Pence has said the Trump administration seeks to redirect NASA's focus toward human space exploration, including flights to the moon and Mars, Space News reported Thursday. Pence...

The Office of Special Counsel has called on the General Services Administration to provide additional details on how it would implement strict financial controls to address issues with regard to...

NASA will decide in the next two months on a second extended mission for the Orbital ATK-built Dawn spacecraft, which is in orbit around the Ceres dwarf planet, Space News reported...

The Small Business Administration has unveiled a new map of historically under-utilized business zones as part of an effort to modernize the agency's federal contracting programs. SBA said June 28 the map is...

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has said DHS' chief information officer and acting chief financial officer must work together to update financial management systems and associated information technology security...

Kevin Scheid Kevin Scheid, who served as Defense Department deputy comptroller from 2006 to 2009, has begun a three-year term as general manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency,...

Ron Jarmin, associate director for economic programs at the U.S. Census Bureau, has been appointed acting director of the bureau. Jarmin took over as interim director following the retirement of John...

President Donald Trump signed Friday an executive order that seeks to relaunch the National Space Council that last operated in 1993 under President George H.W. Bush’s administration, Space News reported...

Susan Gordon President Donald Trump has nominated Susan Gordon, deputy director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and a 25-year CIA veteran, to serve as principal deputy director at the Office of the Director...