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FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. For the second time in 2020, an independent federal review released on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, has faulted the U.S. Department of Defense for how it has responded when children on military bases sexually assault each other. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Pentagon transitioning its COVID-19 acquisition task force to permanent office

The temporary acquisition task force DoD created in response to COVID-19 will become a permanent assisted acquisition organization.

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Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

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Pentagon says it needs billions to repay contractors for employee leave

Defense

VA doesn’t have the personal protective equipment it needs to handle second pandemic wave

Veterans Affairs

Democratic Party of Hawaii staff tabulate presidential primary ballots in Honolulu on Friday, May 22, 2020. The Democratic Party of Hawaii is scheduled Saturday to release the results of its party-run presidential primary which was delayed by more than a month due the coronavirus pandemic. The party expected most members to vote by mail and some to cast ballots at about 20 in-person polling sites. But concerns about the virus forced the party to cancel in-person voting and allow only mail ballots. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

USPS lays out suggestions on vote-by-mail services for local governments

Federal Newscast

In this April 16, 2020, photo Sonia Munoz, left, custody assistant, gets her temperature taken at the hospital ward of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles. Across the country first responders who've fallen ill from COVID-19, recovered have begun the harrowing experience of returning to jobs that put them back on the front lines of America's fight against the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

NTEU lays out standards for calling federal employees back to offices

Federal Newscast

An airline passenger walks by the vacant TSA checkin at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Monday, March 23, 2020, in Romulus, Mich. The COVID-19 coronavirus has considerably slowed air travel. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Congressional Democrats trying to secure hazard pay for frontline federal workers

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo the Dome of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument are visible as a lone woman runs along the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington. The nation's capital, like most of the nation itself, is largely shuttered. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Congress trying to figure out operating in midst of coronavirus pandemic

Federal Newscast

DCMA offers early-outs, buyouts to hundreds of workers

It’s been several years since budget challenges caused federal agencies to offer widespread buyouts and early-outs to their workforces, but the Defense…

DoD Reporter's Notebook

A medical worker wearing a single protective glove and a face mask walks past a line of workers and visitors waiting to be tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the main entrance to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Monday, March 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Federal employees on frontlines of coronavirus response could get premium pay bumps

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management says agencies can lift the usual limits on premium pay and set higher annual premium pay…

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo a ventilator is displayed during a news conference at the New York City Emergency Management Warehouse, where 400 ventilators have arrived and will be distributed. As hospitals scour the country for scarce ventilators to treat critically ill patients stricken by the new coronavirus, pharmacists are beginning to sound an alarm that could become just as urgent: Drugs that go hand in hand with ventilators are running low even as demand is surging. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Government breathes life into the ventilator market

Tom Temin Commentary

Supply and cost are always important drivers for the government to jump in.

Pentagon transitioning its COVID-19 acquisition task force to permanent office

Gearing up for great power competition also helped the Air Force prepare for COVID-19

PRAC details how it plans to monitor coronavirus stimulus funds

Audit finds multibillion DoD health care maintenance backlog jeopardizes safety

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

Pentagon says it needs billions to repay contractors for employee leave

VA doesn’t have the personal protective equipment it needs to handle second pandemic wave

USPS lays out suggestions on vote-by-mail services for local governments

NTEU lays out standards for calling federal employees back to offices

Congressional Democrats trying to secure hazard pay for frontline federal workers

Congress trying to figure out operating in midst of coronavirus pandemic

DCMA offers early-outs, buyouts to hundreds of workers

Federal employees on frontlines of coronavirus response could get premium pay bumps

Government breathes life into the ventilator market

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