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  • As feds’ health care options grow, choices narrow
    As feds’ health care options grow, choices narrow

    Options for federal employee health care may have increased over the years, but general enrollment remains consistent and concentrated within the largest providers.

  • Feds exposed: What the government is doing to protect you after a breach
    Feds exposed: What the government is doing to protect you after a breach

    On the surface, federal employees face the same dangers as average citizens in the wake of a data breach: credit card theft, fraudulent tax returns, stolen identity, fraudulent medical records and others. But, according to experts, federal employees’ access to sensitive material poses another layer of danger in the wake of a data breach.

  • Trump signs bill offering cyber training for state, local law enforcement
    Trump signs bill offering cyber training for state, local law enforcement

    President Trump signed a bill that will allow state and local law enforcement to gain needed cybersecurity and cybercrime prevention skills at one of the nation’s top training schools.

  • Why federal employees are leaving the Trump administration
    Why federal employees are leaving the Trump administration

    A growing discontent with the direction of the Trump administration has compelled some federal employees to leave their position. The Huffington Post published an interview with four such former bureaucrats on Oct. 25, illustrating the specifics, from personal to policy, as to why the Trump administration was not for them.

  • Federal leadership is needed to close the cyber talent gap [Commentary]
    Federal leadership is needed to close the cyber talent gap [Commentary]

    Given our reliance on all things cyber, this is a national problem, and it demands a national solution that only the federal government can drive.

  • Democrats: Cutting cyber grants will worsen workforce shortage
    Democrats: Cutting cyber grants will worsen workforce shortage

    Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee took aim during a Tuesday hearing at cuts to federal grant and scholarship programs under the Administration’s and House of Representative’s proposed budgets, which they say would negatively impact the already insufficient cyber workforce in the U.S.

  • Nominee for OPM chief outlines what he will do for federal employees
    Nominee for OPM chief outlines what he will do for federal employees

    The nominee for director of the Office of Personnel Management, Jeff Pon, said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday that he aims to cut down the significant lag times in employee hiring, retirement payments and benefits claims if confirmed to the post.

  • Federal employee satisfaction on the rise
    Federal employee satisfaction on the rise

    Government employees are increasingly satisfied with their jobs in the federal government, according to results in the 2017 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.

  • Congress OKs expanded protections for federal whistleblowers
    Congress OKs expanded protections for federal whistleblowers

    Congress voted Thursday to boost the protection of federal whistleblowers from retaliation, part of a bid to uncover bad behavior at the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government agencies.

  • Survey: Government has a career leadership problem
    Survey: Government has a career leadership problem

    Government has a problem with attracting senior leadership, promoting the right people to lead and providing those leaders with the right development opportunities, according to a recent survey by Deloitte and the Senior Executives Association.