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Cybersecurity

CISA provides agencies with long-awaited cloud security guidance

Agencies have made a wholesale push to the cloud, and now they have corresponding security guidance under CISA's Trusted Internet Connections 3.0.

Federal Newscast

Defense Sec. bans photographs being used when considering promotions

Congress

Democratic lawmakers wary of Treasury's conditions for USPS $10B emergency loan

People

OPM's Rigas to take on second position as OMB acting deputy

Federal Newscast

Agencies get more hiring flexibilities to help with coronavirus response

Contracts/Awards

OMB’s new coronavirus contractor guidance doesn’t answer some of the toughest questions

Workforce

Cabaniss resigns as OPM director

A commuter wears a face mask in the New York City transit system, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York. New York continued grappling Monday with the new coronavirus, as case numbers, school closings and other consequences grew. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Management

OMB gives agencies more flexibilities when awarding grants for coronavirus research

OPM-GSA merger

OPM Reorganization

OPM-GSA merger may be on hold, but administration wants to spend $70M on it next year

Margaret Weichert, acting director at the Office of Personnel Management and deputy director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget., holds a challenge coin.

People

OMB's Weichert leaving for the private sector

USPS

Budget

White House dusts off USPS reform plan to save $97B in 11 years

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Workforce

Trump's 2021 budget pledges training for 400,000 federal employees

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Pay

In break with tradition, Trump announces 1% federal pay raise intentions to Congress months early

FILE - This Feb. 2, 2015, file photo, depicts a part of a U.S. $100 bill. A growing majority of Americans want greater government spending on health care, and the increase is being driven by both Democrats and Republicans. That’s according to new data from the General Social Survey. The survey finds a desire for more spending on many government functions, including education and assistance to the poor, as President Donald Trump’s latest budget plan proposes to cut programs that are popular with the public. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Pay & Benefits

Trump proposes federal pay raise, familiar retirement cuts in 2021 budget

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Big Data

Federal Data Strategy to impact all feds, not just 'data plans for data wonks'

FILE - In this July 31, 2015 file photo, U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth D-Ill., appears before the Chicago City Council's finance committee in Chicago. Duckworth, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, faces incumbent Republican Sen. Mark Kirk in the November election. Both Duckworth and Kirk are making national security a key issue in their campaigns. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Federal Newscast

Senators worry new policies may hinder non-citizen servicemembers naturalization process

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Acquisition Policy

OFPP’s Wooten pressing the levers to change the tools, rules, talent pools of federal procurement

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Workforce

Shutdowns, relocations and mergers defined a whirlwind 2019 for the federal workforce

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Hiring/Retention

Agencies could rehire, promote former employees with new OPM regulatory fix

2018 presidential rank awards

Tom Temin Commentary

You'll be home for — and before — Christmas

Presidential Rank Award

SES

Senior executives earn top honors for research, new discoveries — and managing the shutdown

Reporter's Notebook

GAO’s report on the Technology Modernization Fund puts OMB on the offensive

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Hiring/Retention

OPM urging agencies to include military spouses, former inmates in hiring strategies

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