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The Kaiserslautern Military Community Center sits dusted with snow after the first snowfall of the season, Jan. 15, 2016, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Defense

First win in Europe: DoD employees get union representation at German military installation

Almost 400 workers at the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center Exchange in Germany voted to join the American Federation of Government Employees as the union expands its footprint overseas.

Federal Report

In Japan, civilian feds say health care crisis still isn't fixed

Defense News

DoD decades behind private sector in recruiting talent for civilian jobs, study finds

Federal Newscast

Congress wants DoD's telework policies set in stone

Defense

DoD-commissioned study finds major shortcomings in civilian talent management

Federal Newscast

The Pentagon may not be paying enough attention to its civilian workforce

Federal Newscast

No more two-year probationary period for new Pentagon employees

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division used the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a training exercise in October at Fort Pickett, Va. The event was part of a larger Soldier Touch Point, the third major milestone in the development and testing of the IVAS, which will undergo one more STP in the spring before initial fielding next year. (U.S. Army Photo by Bridgett Siter)

Army

From recruitment to retention, Army puts more management focus on civilian workforce

FILE - In this June 7, 2021, file photo, demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, wave at cars that honk at them to support their protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs. A federal judge dismissed their lawsuit, saying if workers don’t like the rule, they can go find another job. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Federal Newscast

Civilian defense employees find out just what will happen if they refuse COVID-19 vaccine

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Federal Newscast

Pentagon civilian employees get their deadline to receive COVID-19 vaccine

More than 800 service members and civilians gathered at Camp Atterbury for Cyber Shield 18 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana from May 6-18, 2018.

Defense

In NDAA, shift in attitude toward DoD civilians goes beyond pay raise

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Army

The Army has ideas for reducing civilian time-to-hire

FILE - In this June 4, 2017, file photo. nNew Army recruits take part in a swearing in ceremony before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies in San Diego. The Army has missed its recruiting goal for the first time in more than a decade. Army leaders tell The Associated Press they signed up about 70,000 new troops for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Defense News

DoD plans civilian workforce increase, especially health fields

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On DoD

DoD pushing to resurrect contractor-vs-civilian competitions

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Defense

Navy, Air Force want Congress to abolish 180-day waiting period to hire military retirees

A computer forensic examiner looks for evidence on hard drives at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in Linthicum, Md., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Hackers and hostile nations are launching increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks against U.S. defense contractors. And the Pentagon is extending a program to help protect its prime suppliers, while serving as a possible model for other government agencies. Pentagon analysts are investigating a growing number of cases involving the mishandling or removal of classified data from military and corporate systems. Defense officials say intrusions into defense networks are now close to 30 percent of the Pentagon's Cyber Crime Center's workload. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Defense News

DoD champions civilian workers, asks for more in new business plan

In this Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, photo, U.S. Army soldiers conduct a reconnaissance patrol in a rural village near a coalition outpost in western Iraq. After Islamic State group fighters were pushed out of this area late last year, civilians have slowly returned to the town of Qaim and its rural outskirts near the border with Syria. Thousands of U.S. troops and billions of dollars spent by Washington helped bring down the Islamic State group in Iraq, but many of the divisions and problems that helped fuel the extremists’ rise remain. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

Defense

Army wrongly diverted civilian payroll funds to pay other headquarters bills, IG says

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Defense

Military leaders say Pentagon's hiring freeze exemptions don't fully resolve civilian workforce concerns

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2014, file photo, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work speaks at the Pentagon. The Pentagon thinks it has a winning argument for why Congress should allow a new round of military base closings. Spending resources on excess infrastructure does not make sense, Work wrote leaders of the relevant congressional committees on April 12. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Defense

Pentagon ends temporary stoppage in civilian hiring

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Defense

Carter proposes host of changes to military, civilian personnel rules

DoD

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon orders temporary stoppage in civilian hiring

Congress

DoD orders most furloughed civilian employees back to work

Federal Acquisition, GSA

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Congress clears way for DoD civilian workforce cuts