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Higher federal workforce diversity is often concentrated in lower pay grades

Although agencies have made progress in promoting equal employment opportunities, the EEOC’s latest federal workforce report shows that some inequities still exist in governmentwide workforce demographics.

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Why some FEHB participants should take another look at Medicare Part D

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OPM expects busy Open Season standing up USPS health insurance marketplace in 2024

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DoD Cloud Exchange 2023: Space Force, Marine Corps and Leidos leaders on taking tactical advantage of data in the cloud

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Federal News Network's 2023 DoD Cloud Exchange is now On Demand

All of the sessions from Federal News Network's 2023 DoD Cloud Exchange are now available for viewing on demand. Catch up on any of the interviews you may have missed here.

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Vulcan to be the glue to connect DISA’s digital transformation tools together

Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA’s Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.

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Federal appeals court upholds ban on vaccine mandate for federal employees

A ten-judge majority of the 5th Circuit’s 17 judges upheld a 2022 decision that blocked the vaccine mandate nationwide.

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With low staffing and high workloads, EPA’s large budget proposal is a ‘catch-up game,’ administrator says

Among efforts to tackle climate change, protect public health and improve infrastructure, a top priority of the EPA budget request is rebuilding its workforce.

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DoD Cloud Exchange 2023: Trend Micro’s David Abramowitz on protecting hybrid infrastructure through a single enterprise view

“If you think of a security solution as the car, threat intelligence is the engine,” says Trend Micro’s David Abramowitz. And that intelligence depends on enterprise visibility, he explains during the DoD Cloud Exchange.

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At least the congressional budget hearings are following regular order

TikTok was not the only thing discussed on Capitol Hill last week. Good old-fashioned budget hearings also broke out all over. They revealed a lot about hoped-for spending priorities in 2024. For the details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Jack Fitzpatrick, a congressional reporter with Bloomberg Government.

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What one longtime government watchdog group recommends for the 118th Congress

Barely two months old, the 118th Congress is getting advice from all over. For decades, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has issued a list of 13 steps Congress could take to restore trust in government, improve program performance, and keep things honest.

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Veterans Affairs campuses are designed to open. Maybe too open.

The Veterans Affairs Department’s big medical campuses are full of physical security gaps, the VA’s office of Inspector General has found. Unlocked exterior doors, broken surveillance cameras and a shortage of VA police officers top the list.

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Education options abound for Space Force guardians

As space fills its ranks with cyber and satellite specialists, it has to build out its training abilities.

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Vulcan to be the glue to connect DISA’s digital transformation tools together

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DoD decades behind private sector in recruiting talent for civilian jobs, study finds

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Pay & Benefits

Why some FEHB participants should take another look at Medicare Part D

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OPM expects busy Open Season standing up USPS health insurance marketplace in 2024

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Technology

Vulcan to be the glue to connect DISA’s digital transformation tools together

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Workforce

Higher federal workforce diversity is often concentrated in lower pay grades

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What one longtime government watchdog group recommends for the 118th Congress

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