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

The Office of Personnel Management expects to receive a much higher volume of calls during next year’s Open Season. That’s because a Postal Service reform bill signed into law in 2022 is moving postal employees…

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

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

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Virus Outbreak Federal Workers

Federal appeals court upholds ban on vaccine mandate for federal employees

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Senate Republicans push back against a 19% increase for EPA’s 2024 budget request

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Tune into the 2023 DoD Cloud Exchange

Be sure to catch DIA Senior Tech Advisor Johanna “Jojo” Leasiolagi's keynote discussion on how DIA is helping to transform the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System through use of modern cloud services.

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DoD Cloud Exchange 2023: DIA’s Johanna 'Jojo' Leasiolagi on ‘expanding the highway’ for sharing top-secret data

One of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief priorities is modernizing JWICS, which agencies governmentwide rely on for top-secret communications. DIA’s Johanna “Jojo” Leasiolagi discusses ways the agency wants to use modern cloud services.

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For many agencies, the office of the future is a now decision

Nina Albert, the commissioner of the Public Building Service at GSA, said with approximately 50% of GSA’s lease portfolio expiring in the next five years, agencies have some urgency to figure out their office space plans for the future.

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VA

VA ‘hampered’ by pay caps for doctors, welcomes bipartisan bill to lift them

Top human resources officials for the Department of Veterans Affairs say a bipartisan bill raising pay caps for VA doctors and other health care providers would help keep the agency staffed up to handle its workload.

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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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U.S. Navy

Faced with shortages, military looks for new sources of recruits

With a historically small pool of potential recruits, DoD wants to help more potential service members qualify.

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Rebuilding the Office of Personnel Management will take years longer

The Office of Personnel Management still has a lot of rebuilding to do. The Trump administration tried to roll its functions into the White House and GSA. 

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DISA Defense Information Systems Agency Headquarters

DISA fields a classified version of a very widely used open platform

Since January, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has been running a highly classified version of a very popular consumer platform. DISA completed functional testing of what it calls DOD-365-Sec, a secure version of Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-hosted suite of common products.

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EPA renews a 15-year-old program to save millions of gallons of water

At least one program of the EPA has had consistent support regardless of the administration or the makeup of Congress. It’s called WaterSense and it’s aimed at plugging household leaks thought to result in billions and billions of wasted gallons.

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Defense News

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

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

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EPA renews a 15-year-old program to save millions of gallons of water

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