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Rebuild US brain trust to curb reliance on foreign critical minerals
China’s Commerce Ministry recently imposed export controls on gallium and germanium, minerals essential for computer chips and solar panels.
By Kray Luxbacher
Biden’s pick confirmed as government personnel director in tight vote
The Senate voted June 22 to confirm Kiran Ahuja, President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management.
By Jessie Bur
OPM nominee: better technology is necessary to ‘honor’ retirees
Nominee to head the Office of Personnel Management Kiran Ahuja envisions the best way to improve the backlog of retirement processing is turning to digital.
By Jessie Bur
Telework has a bright future under potential OPM management
Office of Personnel Management Director nominee Kiran Ahuja sees longstanding benefits for federal telework.
By Jessie Bur
OPM nominee promises new direction on performance management
Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to lead the Office of Personnel Management under the Biden administration, envisions helping managers as the solution to addressing poor performance.
By Jessie Bur
Biden nominates first South Asian American to lead personnel office
Kiran Ahuja previously served in the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Justice and led an Obama White House initiative to improve federal engagement with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
By Jessie Bur
Trump doubles down on ending racial sensitivity training
President Donald Trump said during Tuesday's debate that racial sensitivity training for the federal workforce is “sick” and “insane" and "teaching people to hate our country."
By Jessie Bur
US agency includes gun sellers as ‘critical’ infrastructure
The firearms industry was not part of the federal agency’s original list of critical infrastructure issued just over a week ago.
Who should be responsible for critical infrastructure’s cybersecurity?
A new survey asked IT professionals who they think should be tasked with securing critical infrastructure.
By Andrew Eversden
A new label to better protect critical infrastructure
A new report suggests that the federal government take steps to more actively defend networks of critical infrastructure operators.
By Andrew Eversden
Ways government, industry can overcome a perpetual challenge
A recent report takes aim at improving information sharing between feds and the private sector to build a complete threat picture.
By Andrew Eversden