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Department of Energy

Energy Department’s new place to explore offshore-wind technology

The Energy Department (DOE) has established a center of excellence for accelerating offshore wind energy.

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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo, an iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans.  Facebook says it’s going all in to block the spread of bogus vaccine claims. In practice, that means the social network plans to ban a new bunch of false claims in addition to the old bunch of false claims about vaccines or COVID-19 that it has already banned.  (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Supreme Court rules public officials cannot block critics on social media, even from personal accounts

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Retirement, debt, TSP

Federal retirees especially have to pay attention to their debt profiles

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John Garamendi

Should the Defense Department get more mixed up with mergers and acquisitions?

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TSA, Contract, AFGE Council 100

Transportation Security Officers have a spiffy new collective bargaining agreement

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DIUDIU, innovation, contract

Military leaders talk incessantly about innovation. Why don’t they buy more of it?

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(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)TSA- Transportation Security Officers

How the TSA could improve the sense of job engagement of its line officers

Engagement scores for Transportation Security Officers have ranked below the average for federal employees. Its taken steps to help foster engagement.

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cybersecurity

Contractors make the case for flexibility in a forthcoming Defense Department cybersecurity program

Ready or not, the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Program is coming

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/ipopbacloud computing, MITRE

Some new thinking on the crucial question of cloud computing security

Just about every federal agency uses cloud computing to some degree. Some no longer have their own data centers.

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