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Ballooning data volumes threaten to asphyxiate federal agencies
Navigating this deluge while ensuring data integrity, security and compliance presents a significant challenge.
By Pragyansmita Nayak
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Congress must act to protect corrections workers at federal prisons
The father of slain Federal Corrections Officer Eric Williams writes an open letter urging action to protect employees.
By Don Williams
Challenges remain 2 years after VA’s expansion of caregiver program
The CEO of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation says it has been awaiting new regulations on how the VA plans to expand caregiver benefits to the approximately 4.4 million Americans caring for veterans who served before Sept. 11, 2001.
By Steve Schwab
Sanders, Warren urge DoD to save union protections
A group of liberal senators, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, want the Trump administration not to strip labor rights from civilian Department of Defense employees.
By Joe Gould
Mattis: ‘We’re better than our current politics’
In an op-ed, the former Defense Secretary warns against America’s political infighting and hostility towards traditional allies.
58 former national security officials to rebuke Trump’s emergency declaration
A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials is expected to join opposition to President Trump’s national emergency declaration.
By Joe Gould
New GOP rivalry? Romney barrels into DC blistering Trump
Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, put to rest expectations that he would take his time getting his footing in Washington. Instead, he penned an op-ed in The Washington Post that said Trump "has not risen to the mantle of the office."
Smith aims to scrap Trump’s nuclear weapons policy
Democratic lawmakers say they hope to use their party’s takeover of the House to check the Trump administration’s expansive pursuit of nuclear weapons.
By Joe Gould
Will Congress really cancel US-Saudi arms deals? It’s complicated, but let us explain
Everything you wanted to know about U.S.-Saudi arms sales and the politics around them, but were afraid to ask.
By Joe Gould
Trump’s arms sales nominee bogged down by 3D gun debate
A State Department nomination that should have been a victory lap for the Trump administration’s efforts to boost U.S. arms sales abroad instead has become caught up in a separate domestic controversy.
By Joe Gould
The State Department might designate a cyber ambassador
A Department of State reauthorization bill includes a proposal to elevate a proposed Bureau for Cyberspace and the Digital Economy.
By Jessie Bur
Bill establishing State Department cyber ambassador passes committee
Under the bill, the head of the office would have the rank and status of an ambassador and be responsible for leading the State Department’s diplomatic cyberspace efforts by promoting “an open, interoperable, reliable, unfettered, and secure information and communications technology infrastructure globally.”
By Jessie Bur