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New leadership initiative aims to add 400 paid federal interns
The Future Leaders in Public Service Internship Program comes as the federal government struggles to draw young talent to replace those soon to retire.
By Jessie Bur
Navigating USAJobs and the federal hiring process
Most federal positions across the government are listed on a single federal hiring site, making USAJobs the core of the federal hiring process.
By Jessie Bur
Nearly 14,000 feds face looming pandemic furloughs
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services plans to furlough 75 percent of its workforce, unless Congress intervenes.
By Jessie Bur
DOJ finds errors in additional warrant applications
A Justice Department watchdog report from December found errors and omissions in applications to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign aide, and an audit released last week found problems with additional applications between 2014 and 2019.
Want your coronavirus relief payment? New online tools will help with that deposit.
Two new Treasury web portals will allow the IRS to expedite coronavirus relief payments to Americans who didn't file a tax return or didn't provide banking information to the tax agency.
By Andrew Eversden
Amazon Web Services wants to depose President Trump
Amazon Web Services also wants to depose Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and DoD CIO Dana Deasy as part of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract court case.
By Andrew Eversden
AWS blames Trump for its loss in the JEDI bid
A redacted version of AWS' initial complaint details how the company thinks President Donald Trump influenced the proceedings for the Pentagon's controversial enterprise cloud.
By Andrew Eversden
Lawmakers to Trump: Don’t delay Pentagon cloud contract. No, do.
Amazon Web Services Inc., a division of Amazon, and Microsoft Corp. are finalists for the contract estimated to be worth up to $10 billion over a decade.
Is this a JEDI mind trick?
I don’t question industry’s ability to develop a secure, capable cloud infrastructure for the Pentagon. I do question how on earth the Pentagon screwed up the competition so badly.
By Jill Aitoro
Senators oppose OPM expansion of criminal hiring check
Applicants for federal jobs may soon be required to detail conviction alternative programs they have done, in addition to any actual incarcerations.
By Jessie Bur
The real deal on preselection
How to tell when a federal job has been preselected and whether it is worthwhile to still apply.
By Lily Whiteman