The Transportation Department plans to grant $60 million in funding to agencies and organizations that could develop transportation technologies as part of a program toward improved travel safety and performance. DOT said Tuesday the Federal
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The National Weather Service has opened a new weather service equipment repair facility in Missouri that is leased by the General Services Administration. The 222,000 square-foot building in Grandview will house a
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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 of the
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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 fatalities in
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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 that will
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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 department’s
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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 well as their
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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 the Senate to confirm
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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 said in
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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 Friday. Jason
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