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How the government came to embrace good-faith hacking of its networks
Federal agencies are inoculating public IT infrastructure by not only listening to the Internet’s Immune System, but proactively inviting healthy input.
By Casey Ellis
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Biggest federal government union rallies against specter of Schedule F
Final regulations are pending from the Office of Personnel Management to further reinforce the merit system.
In U-turn, feds defend including undocumented in House count
The Alabama case is the last one pending over whether people in the U.S. illegally can be excluded from the apportionment count.
Weary postal workers hope Biden will bring new tone, change
Biden could and likely will use appointments to reshape the USPS Board of Governors, which meets Tuesday for the first time since his election.
Litigants take more cooperative approach in census lawsuit
A coalition of counties, cities, tribal governments and advocacy groups sued the Trump administration last year in order to stop the census from ending early out of concern that a shortened head count would cause minority communities to be undercounted.
Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled census
According to critics, that damage includes a failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire and a Trump order to figure out who is a citizen and who is in the U.S. illegally.
Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan
Internal documents obtained earlier this month by a House committee show that Census Bureau officials don't see the apportionment numbers being ready until days after Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
Will the 2020 election change how presidential transitions happen?
US President-elect Joe Biden's complicated transition to assume the presidency in January has caused some members of Congress to call for updates to the process.
By Jessie Bur
Federal giving sees a boost during the pandemic
Donations to the Combined Federal Campaign this year are up over last year's numbers, even as campaign events have had to transition to virtual.
By Jessie Bur
Congress returns with virus aid, federal funding unresolved
After months of shadowboxing amid a tense and toxic campaign, Capitol Hill's main players are returning for one final, perhaps futile, attempt at deal-making on a challenging menu of year-end business.
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
OPM approves emergency leave program for Oregon wildfires
Federal employees impacted by the deadly Oregon wildfires this year could have access to donated leave from their fellow feds.
By Jessie Bur
Pentagon differs on post-election Hatch Act rules
Civilian and servicemember Department of Defense employees may have to refrain from certain political behavior for longer than their colleagues at other agencies.
By Jessie Bur