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Sean Conway, formerly legal adviser in the Federal Communications Commission’s wireless telecommunications bureau, has been appointed as deputy director of the FCC’s legislative affairs office. Conway was previously an attorney adviser in

Bob Fortna, vice president of federal defense sector at Juniper Networks, has prescribed five practices he says are necessary to build the data center of the future. Fortna wrote in an opinion

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is set to discuss a number of bills intended to change the rules on Senior Executive Service accountability and paid leaves, Federal News Radio reported

The Government Accountability Office has said its recommendations that government agencies implemented in a move to improve efficiency resulted in savings valued at $74.7 billion in fiscal year 2015. GAO said in

Maria Contreras-Sweet, administrator at the Small Business Administration, has informed a House committee that the agency launched efforts to address agency operations management issues identified during audits by the SBA Inspector General and Government Accountability Office.

The Federal Aviation Administration has recorded nearly 180,000 unmanned aerial systems that registered with the agency since it launched the registration system in December, FCW reported Wednesday. Chase Gunter writes the FAA

The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has lowered the fees for NIH’s government-wide acquisition contracts by up to 35 percent. NITAAC said Tuesday it reduced the fees for

Angela Bailey, chief operating officer of the Office of Personnel Management, will leave her current role to serve as chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security and will start at DHS Monday, FCW reported

Sanjiv Malhotra, a former consultant at the Energy Department’s fuel cells technologies office, has been appointed director of the clean energy investment center at DOE’s office of technology transitions. Malhotra will oversee

Mark Morgan, formerly deputy assistant director of the training division at the FBI, has been named assistant director of the training division at the bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Morgan worked for