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United States Capitol is the meeting place of the US Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the US federal government.

Amid political leadership vacancies, calls for SES reform continue to rise

Opting for career SES officials or appointees who don’t need Senate confirmation may be the most effective way to minimize persistent leadership vacancies.

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Pay

Agencies have new deadline from OPM to review pay policies

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Secret Service director steps down after assassination attempt against ex-President Trump at rally

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National Guard leaders, government

Nominations for National Guard leaders languish, triggering concerns as top officers retire

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DHS improves workforce engagement in 2024 FEVS

In 2022, for the first time in a decade, DHS didn't come in last place in the Best Places to Work rankings. In 2023, it climbed two more rankings, showing the DHS workforce is growing more engaged.

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FNN motorcycle event raises fresh charity funds

Three federally connected charities benefit each year from Federal News Network's fundraising motorcycle ride, organized by Federal Drive Host Tom Temin.

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Blue-collar feds may soon see pay adjustments under proposal for reforms

A proposal aims to amend the federal pay locality mapping for blue-collar feds, more closely aligning it with the General Schedule’s pay localities.

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Secret Service director, grilled by lawmakers on the Trump assassination attempt, says 'we failed'

The Secret Service’s director says the roof where a shooter opened fire at Donald Trump’s rally was identified as a potential vulnerability before the event.

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DoD advisory board wants Pentagon to reorganize its acquisition shop

The Defense Innovation Board wants the Pentagon to reshuffle its acquisition shop again. “It’s too fragmented,” Charles Phillips said.

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Cloud Exchange: The biggest misconceptions about cloud and how to solve for them

Agencies need to prepare for the fact that when they go to the cloud, there’s still a shared responsibility for protecting the data, explains Rubrik’s Travis Rosiek.

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NASA

A new NASA experiment shows finding the building blocks for life on other planets may not require much digging

New research from NASA shows that the building blocks of life beyond Earth may not be hard to find were we ever to send a probe to do some digging around.

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Some highlights of provisions in this year's NDAA that could affect contractors

Hundreds of amendments are introduced to both the Senate and House version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Not all of them make it, but are debated.

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Could a talent shortage at the FAA lead to more trouble for the airline industry?

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Aviation Subcommittee held a hearing on maintaining staffing for the U.S. air traffic control system.

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Cybersecurity

Crowdstrike outage: SSA shutters offices, other agency impacts

Here’s what we know about how a global IT outage, sparked by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, is impacting federal agencies.

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David Berteau

Some highlights of provisions in this year’s NDAA that could affect contractors

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National Guard leaders, government

Nominations for National Guard leaders languish, triggering concerns as top officers retire

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Pay & Benefits

Pay

‘We need to do more’ to close gender-based pay gap, OPM says

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federal pay reform

Blue-collar federal pay reform heading toward rulemaking process

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Technology

United States Capitol is the meeting place of the US Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the US federal government.

Amid political leadership vacancies, calls for SES reform continue to rise

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NASA

A new NASA experiment shows finding the building blocks for life on other planets may not require much digging

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Joint Chiefs Chairman

Though the Defense Department managed to go unscathed through the Crowdstrike outage, it remains on the alert

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Workforce

United States Capitol is the meeting place of the US Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the US federal government.

Amid political leadership vacancies, calls for SES reform continue to rise

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Pay

‘We need to do more’ to close gender-based pay gap, OPM says

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