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Jory Heckman

Jory Heckman has been a reporter at Federal News Network since January 2018. Jory got his start as an intern in 2011 and was a digital news writer and editor for Federal News Network from 2014 to 2018. He also worked as a desk assistant with CBS News Radio in New York and was a reporter for the Citizens’ Voice newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

House lawmakers concerned half of VA’s IT contracting dollars going to 10 companies

Contracting

Postal Service Electric Vehicles

DeJoy rebuffs USPS regulator considering more ‘proactive’ role in postal oversight

Workforce

Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

VA sets higher in-office work requirements for teleworking employees this fall

Workforce

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA plans to spend last $2B in COVID-19 funds House Republicans want to claw back

Veterans Affairs

Ai woman face with circuit. Artificial intelligence chatbot. Big Data and Data Science. Vector illustration.

White House seeks input on ‘unique opportunities’ for agencies to use generative AI tools

Artificial Intelligence

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. In a federal lawsuit filed this week, U.S. Navy veteran from South Carolina says he ended up with “full-blown AIDS,” because government health care workers never informed him of his positive test result in 1995. He says the test was done as part of standard lab tests at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Columbia, South Carolina. A V.A. spokeswoman says the agency typically does not comment on pending litigation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VHA tells facilities to implement most PACT Act workforce authorities by year’s end

Hiring/Retention

federal pay raise

Exclusive

VA opts into Special Salary Rate for IT workforce, regardless of unclear governmentwide rollout

Pay

Postal Service Electric Vehicles

DeJoy says USPS regulator’s network consolidation probe puts financial targets in ‘jeopardy’

Agency Oversight