The Office of Personnel Management has told agency heads it has identified several federal employees who claimed to have undergraduate and graduate degrees but had obtained their credentials from diploma mills.
A team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. has received a $350 million contract to build the Homeland Secure Data Network for transmitting classified information.
The FBI will impose financial penalties on its contractors if they miss deadlines for rolling out the Trilogy project to modernize systems agencywide, FBI director Robert S. Mueller III today told a Senate subcommittee.
The Homeland Security Department today took the wraps off the Homeland Security Information Network, an upgraded version of the Joint Regional Information Exchange System pilot.
A House committee chairman wants to know how the Education Department determines a school's eligibility for federal financial aid, and if those standards might be of use to sift out degrees from unaccredited schools.
The Homeland Security Department is soliciting vendors on the General Services Administration's Millennia contract to build and run the Homeland Secure Data Network, a network for communication across DHS.
The chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has asked the Education Department to compile a master list of accredited colleges and universities, and make it available on the Web for prospective students and employers.
The General Accounting Office is expanding its investigation of federal employees who hold degrees from unaccredited schools to include the Defense Department.
The Education Department is considering the creation of a master list of accredited colleges and universities in the United States, as a way to protect prospective students and employers from diploma mills.
Federal and state officials plan to meet Jan. 15 in Washington to brainstorm approaches for dealing with government employees who claim educational degrees from unaccredited institutions or diploma mills.
