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Pharmacist Brian Meyer holds a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial for a photo on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 at Sunflower Pharmacy in Odessa, Texas. Sunflower Pharmacy is the first privately owned pharmacy in Odessa given to permission to distribute the vaccine. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP) — Virus_Outbreak_Vaccine_Texas_52747

Federal Newscast

Veterans Affairs gives an update on its vaccine distribution efforts

In today's Federal Newscast, at least 132,000 health care professionals at the Department of Veterans Affairs have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Reporter's Notebook

With initial urgency passed, agencies using pandemic to rethink, innovate processes

Agency Oversight

What did the Pentagon spend its coronavirus relief on?

Congress

Running Congress during a pandemic

Congress

Members of Congress echo concerns with agency reopening plans

Workforce

2020 Census workers begin knocking on doors in 3-phased 'soft launch'

Federal Newscast

EPA wants to help cities keep their transit systems clean

110524-N-GS507-210 PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 24, 2011) Students from the Center for Information Dominance (CID) Corry Station, Cryptologic Technician Collection Seaman Recruit Ben Lowden, of Brownsberg, Ind., Cryptologic Technician Networks Seaman Apprentice Alicia Sutliff, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Cryptologic Technician Technical Third Class Steven Tometczak, of Reno, Nev., preview the Integrated System for Language Education and Training program (ISLET), which is being tested by the CID-based Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture (CLREC) and the Academic Consortium for Global Education (ACGE). Conceived as an alternative to traditional computer-based training and classroom instruction, ISLET employs online social networking, interactive role-play, competitive gaming and speech recognition to create an immersive environment for collaborative learning. (U.S. Navy photo by Gary Nichols/Released)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon names new chief data officer

DoD

Defense

Pentagon says it needs billions to repay contractors for employee leave

David Koch

Contracts/Awards

DLA joining coronavirus effort by cleaning PPE

Retired Navy Rear Adm. Kenneth Braithwaite takes the oath as Secretary of the Navy, May 29, 2020 in the Pentagon. (DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Braithwaite sworn in as new Navy secretary after months of leadership tumult

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Defense

How much has the Pentagon spent on PPE over the last few years?

Manuel Figueroa

Workforce

National Park advocates call for slow, controlled re-opening

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Federal Newscast

Veterans Affairs lays out reopening plan for facilities

Tax Fraud Crackdown

Agency Oversight

IRS, seeing shortfall of volunteers, considers recalling more employees

A medical worker sticks her head outside a COVID-19 testing tent set up outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, Saturday, March 28, 2020. The hospital is caring for a high number of coronavirus patients in the city, and New York leads the nation in the number of cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is keeping a running tally. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Federal Newscast

Popular coronavirus stats website might get federal help

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo, doors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building are locked and covered with blinds as a sign posted advises that the office will be closed during the partial government shutdown in Seattle. Videos and reports claiming that you'll have to pay back the relief checks the federal government is sending to millions of Americans are false, federal agencies confirmed to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Federal Report

COVID-19 hits your tax refund

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)

Federal Newscast

Congress trying to figure out operating in midst of coronavirus pandemic

FILE - In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, file photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. The Trump administration has quietly shut down the nation's asylum system for the first time in decades amid coronavirus concerns, largely because holding people in custody is considered too dangerous. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Workforce

Officers urge CBP to reinstate weather and safety leave schedules during pandemic

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival tech giant Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process. U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing this week of March 13, 2020 that the Defense Department “wishes to reconsider its award decision” and take another look at how it evaluated technical aspects of the companies' proposals to run the $10 billion computing project. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon to use Defense Production Act for $133 million in N95 masks

In this Tuesday, March 24, 2020 photo, forms from the U.S. Census Bureau arrive at a home in Orlando, Fla. The coronavirus has waylaid efforts to get as many people as possible to take part in the census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Federal Newscast

2020 Census count keeps on moving despite pandemic

IT modernization

Unions

Unions raise coronavirus safety concerns over frontline CBP, VA employees