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Power through fiscal year-end budgeting with AI, workflow automation
To execute their second-half blitz, federal managers must pore through mountains of data across thousands of programs.
By Mark Fedeli
Palantir wins Army Research Lab contract extension worth $229 million
The software will support warfighters, the data science community, and commercial AI companies across all facets of AI/ML research and development.
By C4ISRNET staff
Workers for 8 Democratic members of Congress file to hold union vote
The vote comes after the House of Representatives voted 217-202 in May to approve a resolution that recognizes congressional workers’ right to unionize.
National Weather Service remains understaffed despite bipartisan support
The National Weather Service has faced many of the same communication and staffing issues over the past decade.
By Dan Hu, Medill News Service
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.
How feds can balance work and election day
Agency leaders have been encouraged to grant excused absences for employees that require more time to get to the polls.
By Jessie Bur
Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas
Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic and fears about mail-in ballots failing to arrive in time to count.
Census, like Postal Service, politicized in election year
The Postal Service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020.
Senate VA committee gets an ‘F’ in oversight
The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee got an “F” grade from on the Lugar Center’s Congressional Oversight Hearing Index.
By Alyk Russell Kenlan