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Reporter's Notebook

For 2025, the return of IT efficiency and effectiveness

Current and former executives say the federal technology themes for 2025 will be similar to 2024 with the addition of efficiency and effectiveness.

Reporter's Notebook

No surprise: AI, cyber continued to dominate in 2024

Cybersecurity

Dashboards, sharing threat intelligence help USDA improve cybersecurity response
Sponsored by Tanium

Federal Insights

USDA Digital Service continuous learning, recruitment partnerships yield promising results
Sponsored by Dakota State University

Financial Management

All agencies to give grant funding opportunities a facelift

Federal Insights

HISP deep dive: Elevating federal digital services

Workforce

Wildland firefighters at the Forest Service work beyond their job duties. Their union says that’s a big problem

pay raise

Federal Newscast

Federal employees likely to see 2% pay raise in 2025

Sillhouettes of employees in an office representing telework.

Workforce

An updated list of agencies’ return-to-office postures

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 file photo, blood samples from volunteers participating in the last-stage testing of the COVID-19 vaccine by Moderna and the National Institutes wait to be processed in a lab at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. Creating vaccines and properly testing them less than a year after the world discovered a never-before-seen disease is incredible. But the two U.S. frontrunners are made in a way that promises speedier development may become the norm -- especially if they prove to work long-term as well as they have in early testing. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez, File)

Facilities/Construction

Homeland Security returns money to a state hosting a spiffy new lab

Civilian Cloud Exchange '24 GSA USDA

Cloud Computing

Cloud Exchange 2024: GSA's Adam Grandt-Nesher, USDA's Arianne Gallagher-Welcher on future of federal digital services

contracting, 8(a) program, Small Business Administration

Contracting

Ten federal agencies receive 'A+' in annual scorecard measuring small business contracting goals

Small business, SBA, contracting

Workforce

First Look GOP senators seek IG review to see if SBA office space remains underutilized

management workforce

Workforce

More guardrails needed for any potential agency relocations, federal advocates say

USDA Buidling

Management

USDA putting $100M to work to modernize key benefits program

Tony Brannum

A Deeper Look with Joe Paiva

A Deeper Look at the Agriculture Department

USDA-relocation

All About Data

USDA on a mission to make its workforce more data savvy

Joe Biden

Federal Newscast

Seven federal agencies band together to form new 'Climate Corps'

Workforce

OMB focused on automation, federal employee satisfaction as keys to better public-facing services

cyber

Cybersecurity

53 job opportunities, and counting, on new cyber rotation platform for feds

Congress Israel

Federal Newscast

Senate takes big step to avoid government shutdown

USDA relocation

Workforce

After USDA Antideficiency Act violation, lawmakers push bill for more relocation oversight

payroll tax

Workforce

650,000 federal paychecks at risk, as IT, workforce challenges threaten National Finance Center

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