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Twenty years, four agencies, one unanswered question

OPM cements rule allowing paid leave for ‘workforce realignment’ reasons

Industry, legal experts urge FAR Council to set standards for AI in federal procurement

Housing projects can involve funding from multiple federal agencies, and sometimes means a lot of paperwork

CISA gives agencies days to patch critical PHP bugs

Communities can win federal grants for resilience projects and still need money

RFI offers path forward for DoD with CMMC

Defense organizations have spent years talking about autonomy. What’s changing now is the speed.

Social Security Administration sees improvements to service delivery

Your Social Security Reality Check: Fear, facts and the fixes feds need

DoD issues guidance for procuring ‘unbiased’ AI systems

Data readiness is the foundation for AI-enabled JADC2

Government efficiency starts before the work begins

Citizen reports of problems with government programs can reveal larger issues

Inflation affects every retiree, but not all federal retirees receive the same cost-of-living protection

DoD’s reasons for CMMC pause falling apart in face of RFI responses

With 25 days left on the clock after elections, Congress has to decide what gets done first

Details emerge on revisions to paid administrative leave regulations

The battlefield has no boundaries: How the Iran war is redrawing the cyber threat map

Army builds one-stop shop for civilian jobs, benefits and career development

Cybersecurity liability doesn’t necessarily start with a breach

A court has temporarily halted plans affecting the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

FLRA rules against HHS on telework, flags fake citations in agency brief

Agriculture secretary says agency is ‘full-bore ahead’ on Forest Service reorganization

VA adds new and updated features to its electronic health records system

Before making a rollover decision, it’s worth knowing which factors actually matter

ATI sues SBA to lift suspension from federal contracting

The role OIGs play in the federal fight against fraud

Pentagon sued over data breach affecting more than 3 million people

OPM unlawfully let DOGE access sensitive federal employee data, judge rules

Trump administration drops legal fight to overhaul student loan forgiveness program

Federal unions got caught standing still: Federal workers face the consequences

DOL gives employers a green light, with guardrails, to let non-exempt employees split their workday between home and office

Federal employees are protected if they refuse an illegal order. Most of them may not know it.

The systems used to measure how well research investments are working keep changing

Federal union calls on Congress to intervene in SBA’s planned office relocations

Good management starts with good data

Early in Trump’s second term, CFPB issued stop-work orders to its own staff

Why agencies must strengthen the data foundation before scaling AI

OPM issues new strategic plan for hiring at federal agencies

Behind effective drone warfare, a living globe of geospatial data

For Army advanced manufacturing, 3D printing was just a start

This AI tool could transform Army maintenance — and maybe more

Modernization takes on new forms and meaning at TACOM

At Rock Island, Army infuses innovation into manufacturing, acquisition

Reading Between the Numbers: What federal workforce data can and can’t tell you

Schedule G political appointees flew under the radar for more than a year

A way to fix the federal government’s approach to cybersecurity compliance

Trump and Vance announce $25M whistleblower program to encourage public to report alleged fraud

Where the EPA IG chooses to look often tells you where the risks are growing