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The Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act would grant whistleblowers access to a federal district court jury trial if the Merit Systems Protection Board does not issue a decision in 180 days, or 240 days in complex cases.
Of all the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps the least surprising is that it increased IT complexity for federal agencies.
Chris Ritter, at the Idaho National Laboratory, said that while artificial intelligence is about getting computers to think like humans, machine learning is about having pre-programmed devices.
When federal agencies make financial grants to science and technology researchers, scouring their proposals for possible conflicts of interest is a big part of the process.
