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In today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration doesn’t think a Space National Guard is the best idea. Now some interest groups are pushing back.
The House has made some initial progress on 2023 federal spending levels, and various pieces of legislation are expected to make their way through votes on the House and Senate floors in the week ahead.
For the federal government's trial attorneys, your flexibility to telework depends an awful lot on what part of the country you're in. A new survey by the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys (NAAUSA) found a wide variety of telework policies across the 94 U.S attorney's offices. But fewer than half have policies that the organization categorizes as" flexible
In today's Federal Newscast, the Biden administration outlines its plan to maximize COVID-era IT modernization funds, and a study shows the brain injury CTE is rare in military personnel.
The Biden administration, following a windfall of IT modernization dollars Congress approved through COVID-19 spending, is outlining its vision of how it will make the most of this money.
Despite a lot of uncertainty in the broader economy, contractors have at least a somewhat optimistic view about the federal market. That’s thanks, in part, to a big influx of federal spending initiatives since the start of the pandemic. But vendors still see big challenges on the horizon, including increased competition and new demands to comply with federal regulatory requirements.
When Congress created the Federal Employee Retirement System in the ‘80s, one of the most notable changes was that future retirees would get smaller cost of living adjustments than participants in the old Civil Service Retirement System. CSRS and Social Security beneficiaries get COLAs that match inflation; FERS retirees get a smaller adjustment. That hasn’t been a big deal over the past decade of low inflation, but obviously circumstances have changed.
The latest lawsuit challenging DoD's COVID-19 vaccine mandate says the Air Force's religious accommodation process is set up to make those exemptions almost impossible to get.
In today's Federal Newscast, a bill passes the House giving federal workers who get injured on the job better access to workers' compensation.
Just because they can send you email or phone you at all hours day and night doesn't mean you have to answer.
The Defense Department is still figuring out how to raise the cybersecurity waterline among its vendor community as part of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. And some new research based on privately collected cyber risk intelligence shows the problem is as urgent as ever.
We now know, with ever-mounting evidence, that pandemic relief spending resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted spending. The same could happen with infrastructure spending unless agencies tighten up their oversight.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, known as BARDA, isn't a household name. But it was at the center of federal efforts to get COVID vaccines developed and into the market.
In today's Federal Newscast, news on a potential multimillion dollar settlement for victims of the Office of Personnel Management hack.