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Strong leadership, workplace flexibilities and respect for employees are key to improving morale and performance at federal agencies, a freshman Democratic lawmaker told members of the National Treasury Employees Union on Thursday.

The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks.

The federal government lags behind the private sector and many industrialized countries by not providing paid parental leave benefits to federal employees, several witnesses told a House subcommittee on Thursday.

Information technology contractors pose a major security risk by not locking down their networks properly, according to the Defense Department's top IT official.

The Defense Department is working with contractors to shore up data security on their internal networks, one company at a time.

Pay raises are usually happy events, but there were some quiet moans across Washington when new government salary scales were published in January.

Federal chief information officers are increasingly concerned about cyber threats, tight budgets and the erosion of their own clout, according to a new survey.

With close to a hundred undergraduates looking on, federal recruiter Jesse Tampio took the stage recently at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and set about busting the "myths" of government work.

Fed up with the federal government's E-Verify system, a coalition of business leaders led by the Society for Human Resource Management is pushing for legislation that would put employment verification in private hands.

Despite a steady stream of embarrassing computer security breaches, many major federal agencies still are doing too little to safeguard the sensitive personal information in their possession, according to congressional investigators.