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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has appointed Boeing‘s Allen Adler and Corning‘s Waguih Ishak to serve three-year terms as new members of its Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology. Adler, vice president

Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Rob Wittman (R-Va.) have proposed a measure to protect the due process rights of federal employees who hold sensitive roles in government. Norton said Monday the

  Todd May has been named director of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The space agency said Tuesday May will be in charge of the $2.5 billion Marshall center and its

Leaders of the Federally Employed Women and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association have called on Congress to pass a bill that would provide all federal personnel paid parental leave. NARFE

NASA has named Kevin McGhaw as its new deputy director for Marshall Space Flight Center’s Office of Strategic Analysis and Communications. The space agency said Wednesday McGhaw will manage 160 civil service and

A new American Customer Satisfaction Index report has found that citizen satisfaction with U.S. federal government services received a score of 63.9 out of 100 in 2015, a gradual decline from 64.4

Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald has said his goal for 2016 is to bolster the department’s customer service as his office continues to work on reform efforts, Military Times reported Thursday. Leo Shane III

The Government Accountability Office has called on the departments of Defense, Energy and Health and Human Services to develop a guidance meant to inform research participants on inherently governmental functions. GAO said

The White House has announced it will create a new government organization to perform background checks on federal employees and contractors as part of its push to reform the security clearance and investigation

Michael Witherell, vice chancellor for research at the University of California Santa Barbara, has been approved by the UC Board of Regents to serve as director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Witherell