Shinseki said his starting point will be achieving VA’s strategic goal of roughly 145 days, a benchmark that has eluded the agency despite years of promises by current VA Secretary James Peake and his predecessor, Jim Nicholson. ...

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Burnett Pays $15.5 Million To Settle Army Fraud Claims, Ex-Agency Execs Reap $2.8 Million - 01/07/2009.

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's top pick to become national intelligence director won high marks for countering terrorism in southeast Asia after 9/11, but he will preside over an agency that may be downsized under the new ...

The Drug Enforcement Agency, the Coast Guard, the Forest Service and other departments used the internal Web site to announce they planned to replace worn-out equipment and offer it to other federal agencies. ...

A member of the expert panel that advises NASA’s current administrator, Michael Griffin, Bolden spent 14 years with the space agency. He was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1980 and flew his first space mission six years later ...

According to the agency's summary of the rule, the test imposed "an additional burden on DOE." The agency also increased the photocopying fee paid by FOIA requesters to 20 cents per page. The agency currently charges five cents for ...

Headline: "Iran closes a reformist newspaper, for publishing a report criticizing Hamas" "The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Six veterans who say they were exposed to dangerous chemicals, germs and mind-altering drugs during Cold War-era experiments filed a federal lawsuit against the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies Wednesday. ...

Rasoul Khedayer, the agency’s representative in Jordan, said “Iraq will continue to bring aid supplies to the people of Gaza and will fly more than 10 planes in the coming few days into Jordan.” Also Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of ...