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NASA has started to examine multiple options to reduce the cost of a lander mission to Jupiter's moon Europa after the agency postponed a call for spacecraft instruments, SpaceNews reported...

President Donald Trump has agreed with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to advance a bill that would authorize a debt limit...

President Donald Trump has set the average pay raise for federal civilian employees at 1.9 percent and the average salary increase for military personnel at 2.1 percent effective Jan. 1, 2018,...

Heather Wilson Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson has said the service branch completed the initial round of test flights for light-attack aircraft on Aug. 30 at Holloman Air Force Base...

  Robert Behler President Donald Trump intends to nominate Robert Behler, chief operating officer and deputy director of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, as director of operational test...

Lucian Niemeyer, newly appointed assistant defense secretary for installations, has said the Defense Department backs a Senate bill that would push for a new round of base realignment and closures,...

Margaret Weichert President Donald Trump has nominated Margaret Weichert, a senior adviser at the Office of Management and Budget, to serve as deputy director for management at the agency, the...

  Emily Murphy President Donald Trump intends to nominate Emily Webster Murphy, a senior adviser at the General Services Administration, as the next GSA administrator. Murphy previously served as a House...

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-New Jersey), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has introduced a bill that would authorize $7.9 billion in emergency funds for Hurricane Harvey response and recovery operations. The...

The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration has urged the Internal Revenue Service's cybersecurity center to address gaps in its employee training and incident reporting and response efforts. TIGTA said...