Spending watchdog tells National Science Foundation CIO to up game on tech procurement

Joe Fay, Theregister.com

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops The US Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation’s CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in DOGE shakeup

Joe Fay, Theregister.com

CIO says sweeping reorg followed deep cuts as agency pushes cross-functional teams and AI Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed ye…

Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on

Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

Badged versions of TP-Link routers are supplied to US customers by more than 300 ISPs, making them the most widely used Wi-Fi routers in the country, found in millions of US homes. It therefore caused grave concern when security researchers at Microsoft fo…

FAA says air traffic control overhaul management contract worth $1.5 billion

By David Shepardson, Yahoo Entertainment

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday its contract with national security firm Peraton, the ...

What to know about the partial government shutdown, now in its 3rd day

Justin Gomez, Lauren Peller, John Parkinson, ABC News

More than 10,000 Federal Aviation Administration workers are furloughed.

Trump nominates Kevin Warsh to replace Powell as fed chair

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Nomination comes as Trump heaps pressure on Powell to cut interest rates; Warsh to face challenging Senate confirmation.

USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis

JESSICA A. BOTELHO | The National News Desk, Turn to 10

The USDA announced that the agency suspended federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis "effective immediately."

Trump Administration Shutters NASA's Goddard Library

Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE

The Goddard Space Flight Center Library in Greenbelt, Md. reportedly closed on Friday, Jan. 2

DOGE Cuts and Borked Code Delay Important Energy Report

AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com

The ghost of Elon continues to haunt the federal government.

At least 15 newly-released Epstein files have disappeared from DOJ's website, records show

CBSNews, CBS News

The episode has deepened concerns that had already emerged from the Justice Department's much-anticipated document release.

Pulte and other Trump loyalists at mortgage regulator clash with Fannie and Freddie staffers

Yahoo Entertainment

US Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as new NASA administrator

jdinner@space.com (Josh Dinner) , Josh Dinner, Space.com

More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE

Lauren Feiner, The Verge

Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Freq…

Scores of government statisticians are gone, leaving data at risk, report says

MIKE SCHNEIDER, Yahoo Entertainment

The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. One agency lost 95% of its staff, while others...

Trump’s EPA Plans to Raise Threshold for ‘Safe’ Formaldehyde Exposure

Ed Cara, Gizmodo.com

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict.

Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like "an atom bomb," scientists there say

cbsnews.com, Biztoc.com

The Trump administration's elevation of a vaccine skeptic to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials, who told CBS News the appointment will harm the agency's reputation as a reli…

Airlines face steep fines as FAA investigates missed flight reductions

Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, USA Today

The Federal Aviation Administration told airlines they could be fined $75,000 per flight if they didn't trim their schedules during the shutdown.

Bessent to push residency requirement for regional US Fed bank presidents

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

The move is another effort by the Trump administration to have more control over the US Federal Reserve.

Bessent says White House may 'veto' Federal Reserve presidents

CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Yahoo Entertainment

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve's regional bank presidents live in their districts...

Firm Tied To Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts

Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski, Techdirt

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseb…

Round 2: Watch Senate hearing for Jared Isaacman's re-nomination as NASA chief on Dec. 3

mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) , Mike Wall, Space.com

The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA chief on Wednesday (Dec. 3), and you can watch the action live.

“In over his head”: Report claims FBI is a “rudderless ship” under Patel

Garrett Owen, Salon

A report from sources inside the FBI claims that the bureau is floundering under the Trump Cabinet pick.

Trump administration moves to roll back limits on deadly soot pollution

John Power, Al Jazeera English

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency says strict air quality standards were introduced without sufficient review.

FBI working with DOJ to see if they can produce 'anything more' from Epstein files

Luke Barr, ABC News

FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency is working to meet the 30-day release deadline for the files.