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Repeal or reform? House lawmakers weigh responses to WEP, GPO

Many lawmakers are pushing for a full repeal of WEP and GPO, but others are instead looking to reform the benefit calculations for affected federal annuitants.

Congress

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Congress should protect competition, save Section 876

Commentary

A progress report on a sitting Congressman who is back in college

People

How DoD’s own budget process keeps the military on the wrong side of the ‘valley of death’

Contracting

Why the Pentagon needs to bolster its network of corporate consortiums

Defense

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen past the base of the Washington Monument just before sunrise in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers faced a partial government shutdown early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump's demands for $5 billion to start erecting a border wall with Mexico. Overall, more than 800,000 federal employees would see their jobs disrupted, including more than half who would be forced to continue working without pay. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Why Congress should reauthorize, strengthen the SBIR program

Commentary

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OTAs and beyond: Scaling innovation in Defense contracting

Commentary

Defense innovation bumps up against a Cold War budget system

Defense

OPM, Connolly eyeing improvements to federal internship program

Hiring/Retention

FILE- In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Mass. A new report by a global media consortium that expands the known target list of the Israeli hacker-for-hire firm NSO Group’s military-grade spyware provoked alarm Monday, July 19, 2021, among human rights and press freedom activists. They decried the near-complete absence of regulation of commercial surveillance tools. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

When it come to defending against Chinese cyber espionage, agencies are a step behind

Cybersecurity

Current crises call for effective management. Here’s how agencies can cultivate that

Federal Insights

University, vendor teaming up on robotic process automation to help with low-value tasks

George Mason University has teamed up with robotic process automation vendor UI Path to give a push to governmental use of RPA.

Automation

President Joe Biden signs executive orders on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

DPA will help Biden lead a more federal-centric response to COVID

The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden’s first year as president.

Contracting

Filling the Federal Reserve Board

Budget

You’d think for the way Congress appropriates the United States has unlimited money, and those trillions and trillions in debt are just academic. But budgetary policy and monetary policy are two different things.