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  • Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US
    Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US

    “As I said, the magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it’s coming,” President Joe Biden said March 21.

  • Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens
    Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens

    New authorities given to VA hiring officials during the pandemic are set to expire soon.

  • House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet
    House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet

    The plan largely ignores White House calls to replenish the mail-service fleet with electric vehicles and has drawn sharp criticism from the Biden administration, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists, who say it falls far short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change.

  • Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery
    Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery

    Congress mustered rare bipartisan support for the Postal Service package, dropping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service and ensure its future operations.

  • OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee
    OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee

    The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC) advises the OPM director on pay rates for trade, craft and laboring federal employees via the Federal Wage System, ensuring those rates are aligned with prevailing wages at the local level.

  • How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce
    How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce

    For nearly two years, we have witnessed a rapid deterioration of the norms that governed both physical and digital workspaces. Without such norms, interpreting behavior and understanding risk has become increasingly complex. Organizations have struggled to maintain visibility of their assets, and both internal and external attackers have capitalized on weaknesses revealed by ambiguity and…

  • State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation
    State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation

    Aiming to build on momentum from the speech, Biden will head to Wisconsin on Wednesday in an effort to show Americans that his domestic agenda is working. His vice president and Cabinet members will fan out around the country to amplify the message.

  • Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed
    Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed

    Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, COVIDtests.gov received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid…

  • Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
    Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court

    President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

  • FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation
    FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation

    Stephen Dickson, a former pilot and executive with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, had led the FAA since August 2019. He citied separation from his family during the pandemic, saying he told President Joe Biden, “It is time to go home.”

  • Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US
    Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US

    “As I said, the magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it’s coming,” President Joe Biden said March 21.

  • Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens
    Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens

    New authorities given to VA hiring officials during the pandemic are set to expire soon.

  • House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet
    House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet

    The plan largely ignores White House calls to replenish the mail-service fleet with electric vehicles and has drawn sharp criticism from the Biden administration, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists, who say it falls far short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change.

  • Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery
    Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery

    Congress mustered rare bipartisan support for the Postal Service package, dropping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service and ensure its future operations.

  • OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee
    OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee

    The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC) advises the OPM director on pay rates for trade, craft and laboring federal employees via the Federal Wage System, ensuring those rates are aligned with prevailing wages at the local level.

  • How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce
    How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce

    For nearly two years, we have witnessed a rapid deterioration of the norms that governed both physical and digital workspaces. Without such norms, interpreting behavior and understanding risk has become increasingly complex. Organizations have struggled to maintain visibility of their assets, and both internal and external attackers have capitalized on weaknesses revealed by ambiguity and…

  • State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation
    State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation

    Aiming to build on momentum from the speech, Biden will head to Wisconsin on Wednesday in an effort to show Americans that his domestic agenda is working. His vice president and Cabinet members will fan out around the country to amplify the message.

  • Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed
    Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed

    Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, COVIDtests.gov received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid…

  • Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
    Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court

    President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

  • FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation
    FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation

    Stephen Dickson, a former pilot and executive with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, had led the FAA since August 2019. He citied separation from his family during the pandemic, saying he told President Joe Biden, “It is time to go home.”

  • Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US
    Biden: Russia mulling cyberattacks on US

    “As I said, the magnitude of Russia’s cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it’s coming,” President Joe Biden said March 21.

  • Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens
    Veterans Affairs eyes relaxed hiring rules as staff turnover slowly worsens

    New authorities given to VA hiring officials during the pandemic are set to expire soon.

  • House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet
    House Dems seek probe of USPS plan for new mail truck fleet

    The plan largely ignores White House calls to replenish the mail-service fleet with electric vehicles and has drawn sharp criticism from the Biden administration, Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists, who say it falls far short of President Joe Biden’s goals to address climate change.

  • Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery
    Congress passes bill to shore up Postal Service, delivery

    Congress mustered rare bipartisan support for the Postal Service package, dropping some of the more controversial proposals to settle on core ways to save the service and ensure its future operations.

  • OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee
    OPM announces new chair of federal pay rate committee

    The Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee (FPRAC) advises the OPM director on pay rates for trade, craft and laboring federal employees via the Federal Wage System, ensuring those rates are aligned with prevailing wages at the local level.

  • How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce
    How federal agencies can adapt to the unbounded workforce

    For nearly two years, we have witnessed a rapid deterioration of the norms that governed both physical and digital workspaces. Without such norms, interpreting behavior and understanding risk has become increasingly complex. Organizations have struggled to maintain visibility of their assets, and both internal and external attackers have capitalized on weaknesses revealed by ambiguity and…

  • State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation
    State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation

    Aiming to build on momentum from the speech, Biden will head to Wisconsin on Wednesday in an effort to show Americans that his domestic agenda is working. His vice president and Cabinet members will fan out around the country to amplify the message.

  • Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed
    Nearly half of Biden’s 500M free COVID tests still unclaimed

    Wild demand swings have been a subplot in the pandemic, from vaccines to hand sanitizer, along with tests. On the first day of the White House test giveaway in January, COVIDtests.gov received over 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid…

  • Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court
    Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court

    President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared her race unworthy of citizenship and endorsed segregation.

  • FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation
    FAA head resigns after effort to rebuild agency’s reputation

    Stephen Dickson, a former pilot and executive with Delta Air Lines in Atlanta, had led the FAA since August 2019. He citied separation from his family during the pandemic, saying he told President Joe Biden, “It is time to go home.”