Article Title: Why was the VA hacked?
Snippet of Article: "...In early June, a former Department of Veterans Affairs IT manager told members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA’s databases have been hacked by at least eight foreign organizations ..."
Article Title: Homeland Security awards new immigration ID contract even before passage of bill
Snippet of Article: "...As the Senate completes the first portion of their proposed immigration reform legislation, the outcome in Congress may be a foregone conclusion with Homeland Security already awarding new contracts to a technology corporation to facilitate the documenting and surveillance of potential new immigrants under a national ID system...."
Article Title: Police release sketch of suspect who assaulted, robbed postal worker
Snippet of Article: "...asking for the public’s assistance in finding two men that assaulted and robbed a postal carrier in midtown while delivering the mail...."
Article Title: Federal employee dental and vision insurance program to expand
Snippet of Article: "...More insurance companies will participate in the dental and vision insurance program for federal employees and retirees in 2014, the first expansion since the program was created in 2006, the Office of Personnel Management announced Friday...."
Article Title: Obama program requires federal workers to inform on colleagues
Snippet of Article: "...pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions...."
Article Title: Federal employee union president slams contractors' motives
Snippet of Article: "...The GTI's ultimate goal, he said, is to remake government operations so they follow the model of private companies, which would mean "at will employment to replace the civil service, pay systems that differentiate by individual and reallocate salary dollars to the top at the expense of those in lower grades, and an ethos of fast and cheap and buyer beware."..."
Article Title: Gilmanton man convicted of threatening federal employee sentenced
Snippet of Article: "...pleaded guilty in March to impeding or retaliating against a federal employee after prosecutors at U.S. District Court in Concord said he left a threatening voicemail in January 2012. ..."
Article Title: Issa’s Missing Testimony
Snippet of Article: "...So here is the situation. We have a chairman on a fishing expedition who has nothing on Obama or any White House person. He also says things that aren’t true and never walks them back. He leaves out some things that are true but aren’t helpful to his “cause.” But he knows that he needs to milk this nonsense through 2014 or that frothing GOP base is going to bring some of that froth his way...."
Article Title: $332 Million In Federal Worker Bonuses And Searchable Individual 2012 Payroll Records
Snippet of Article: "...The searchable database shows individual payroll records for fiscal year 2012, including some bonuses, for about three out of four government workers...."
Article Title: GSA Considers Mobile Options for Issuing Federal Employee IDs
Snippet of Article: "... Agencies could soon use a mobile device to register the identities of federal personnel who sign up for workforce credentials, according to contracting documents. The General Services Administration, which sells workforce ID cards to agencies..."
Article Title: ICF International Awarded $34 Million Contract with the United States Postal Service
Snippet of Article: "...contract by the United States Postal Service (USPS) to provide program management and information technology management support for the Mailing Information Systems (MIS) and Domestic Products divisions. The contract has a value of up to $34 million and a term of 10 years...."
Article Title: 188 VA Workers Do Union Work Full-Time, Senators Say
Snippet of Article: "...Senators Tom Coburn, (R-Okla), and Rob Portman, (R-Ohio), sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki demanding answers as to why, based on government documents, 188 VA employees were paid taxpayer-funded salaries and benefits to do union work..."
Article Title: Federal workers could enjoy a ‘phased retirement’
Snippet of Article: "...On Wednesday, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will publish proposed regulations allowing feds to take “phased retirement.”..."
Article Title: House panel: Report finds $50M for IRS conferences
Snippet of Article: "...A government watchdog has found that the Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012, a House committee said Sunday...."
Article Title: Va. Postal Official Sentenced for Taking Bribes
Snippet of Article: "...Forty-eight-year-old Gene Quarles of Spotsylvania pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court in Alexandria to bribery of a public official. Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence...."
Article Title: Nasa buys into 'quantum' computer
Snippet of Article: "...Google wants to use the facility at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California to find out how quantum computing might advance techniques of machine learning and artificial intelligence, including voice recognition. ..."
Article Title: Furloughs Only The Latest Blow To Federal Worker Morale
Snippet of Article: "..."You know what's sad?" the colleague said, according to Gibson. "That this place doesn't care about employee morale." Gibson, who is local president of the National Treasury Employees Union, says the attitude starts with politicians in Washington and trickles down...."
Article Title: Sign the Petition to Save the Postal Service
Snippet of Article: "...The APWU is asking union members and supporters to sign an online petition urging the White House to Save the Postal Service and Save American Jobs by supporting the Postal Service Protection Act (H.R. 630 in the House / S. 316 in the Senate)...."
Article Title: Former federal employee charged in Cuba spy conspiracy case
Snippet of Article: "..."Beginning in or about 1983, Velazquez conspired with others to transmit to the Cuban government and its agents documents and information relating to the U.S. national defense..."
Article Title: Mississippi men's feud looms over ricin probe
Snippet of Article: "...authorities must now figure out if an online feud between the two men might have escalated into something more sinister...."
Article Title: Envelope tests positive for ricin at Washington mail facility
Snippet of Article: "...An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN...."
Article Title: Obama proposes 1 percent raise for federal employees
Snippet of Article: "...The raise would be the first increase in basic pay rates since they were frozen beginning in 2011...."
Article Title: Federal workers union furious over DOD contracts
Snippet of Article: "...Defense Department awarded tens of billions in new military contracts last month even as Pentagon leaders finalized plans to furlough up to 700,000 civilian employees..."
Article Title: Obama to propose $35 billion in federal retirement program savings
Snippet of Article: "...the retirement proposals a “betrayal” by the administration on the heels of the already enacted contributions increase, the salary rate freeze and sequestration cuts that threaten unpaid furloughs starting soon...."
Article Title: Army employee shot, killed at Fort Knox
Snippet of Article: "...An Army civilian employee was shot and killed in a parking lot at Kentucky's Fort Knox on Wednesday..."
Article Title: Spies in Huntsville? Believe it. FBI calls the city a 'major target' for espionage
Snippet of Article: "...The FBI is the lead federal agency charged with protecting national secrets, according to Daymond, and it shares threat information with companies and the public on a website devoted to its "business alliance initiative." ..."
Article Title: Furloughs leave federal workers in a world of worry
Snippet of Article: "...“He’s a Marine just getting his life back together, and suddenly he’s looking at losing $300 a month.”..."
Article Title: Defense Department to delay furlough notices
Snippet of Article: "...Furlough notices, which were scheduled to go out Friday, will be delayed until April 5, officials said...."
Article Title: OPM hopes to add six new insurers to FEHBP
Snippet of Article: "...The Office of Personnel Management is now negotiating with six health care insurance carriers..."
Article Title: House committee votes to fire federal workers who owe back taxes
Snippet of Article: "...The Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act, introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah..."
