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Agency Oversight

IRS plans pivot to Login.gov, lets users create online accounts without facial recognition

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Federal Newscast

IRS issues warning about its lack of funding for IT systems

Lloyd Austin
Defense

Senators hear that waiver for Austin could be a dangerous precedent

Grass growing in the shape of planet Earth, inside a transparent piggy bank, symbolising the need to invest in the protection of the environment and to reconnect with nature.
Federal Insights

Report sparks escalating calls for government to address climate change’s threat to economy

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, file photo, an American flag flies at half-staff over the White House in Washington. A woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to White House, has been arrested at the New York-Canada border. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
DoD Reporter's Notebook

Industry holds its breath on impact of Trump diversity training order

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the North Portico of the White House, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Federal Newscast

OMB calls critical race theory 'divisive, un-American,' orders agencies to cease training

Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman displays his insignia during a presentation of the United States Space Force flag in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
DoD Reporter's Notebook

Space acquisition proposals held up amid DoD-OMB negotiations

DoD budget, Navy
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Defense

DoD wants more stimulus money for contractors, lawmaker interest is low

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, photograph, monitors check their screens in the Governor's Office of Information Technology in downtown Denver. Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might actually be encouraging hackers. “We don’t know what that ransom payment is going to fund,” said Brandi Simmons, a spokeswoman for the office. “As a state government, we don’t want to be in a position of funding cyberterrorists.” (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Federal Newscast

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

Elizabeth Warren
Defense

Are increase progress payments actually helping defense industry? Warren wants to know

FILE - In this Thursday, April 2, 2020, file photo, workers in hazardous material suits clean inside the Abigail Hotel in San Francisco. The hotel is one of several private hotels San Francisco has contracted with to take vulnerable people who show symptoms or are awaiting test results for the coronavirus. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who made solving the state's homelessness crisis a priority even before the pandemic struck, announced in mid-March his administration was negotiating with 900 hotels to house the homeless. Two weeks ago he announced Project Roomkey, a program in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency will pay 75% of costs associated with housing some homeless, including people who test positive or may have been exposed to the virus, and older homeless people and those with underlying health conditions. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Federal Newscast

Lawmaker looks to secure hazard pay, extra leave for feds

FILE - This April 13, 2014 file photo shows the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington. The agency said Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, that it is stepping up its efforts to visit high-income taxpayers who failed in prior years to file their tax returns on time. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
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Federal Newscast

Longer tax-filing season means more fake tax returns for the IRS

Space Force
Federal Newscast

Space Force has officially started posting job openings

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Federal Newscast

GSA takes aim at those submitting fake comments on proposed regulations

Elizabeth Warren
Federal Newscast

Presidential candidate lays out plan to reshape federal workforce

In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo, housing stands dilapidated and vacant at the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster, in Warminster, Pa. In Warminster and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Air Force

Air Force withholding millions from military housing company after allegations of fraud