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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration. Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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The Department of Homeland Security, by order of the Biden administration, is reportedly shifting resources to the challenge violent domestic extremism.

Management

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Reporter's Notebook

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Agency Oversight

How do agencies tell if cybersecurity money was well spent?

Cybersecurity

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Federal Drive

Federal whistleblowers quickly losing confidence in their own legal protections, advocates say

Workforce Rights/Governance

How can the federal budgeting process be improved?

Federal Drive

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says the Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pensions accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall. Durbin told The Associated Press, “it’s coming out of military pay and pensions, $1 billion, that’s the plan.”(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

DoD authorizes up to $1 billion for wall at U.S. southern border

Federal Newscast

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Arguing for the return of the Office of Technology Assessment

Federal Drive

OPM: Postal workers not affected by Trump’s workforce executive orders

Workforce Rights/Governance

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Management

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The delicate budget balancing act

Host Ben Carnes of Shaw Bransford & Roth is joined by a panel of budget experts to discuss the current federal funding landscape, how we got here, and…

FEDtalk

Kevin Kosar: When policy advocacy slips into propaganda

Agency employees traditionally refrain from advocating particular policies, yet the billion dollars the government spends annually on public affairs activities…

Federal Drive

How will Homeland Security pivot to violent domestic extremism?

Experts laud SolarWinds post-attack efforts, but why’d it take a massive cyber incident to make changes?

Could USPS handle 2020 election ballots?

How do agencies tell if cybersecurity money was well spent?

Should watchdog agency get more funding? Some think so

Federal whistleblowers quickly losing confidence in their own legal protections, advocates say

How can the federal budgeting process be improved?

DoD authorizes up to $1 billion for wall at U.S. southern border

Arguing for the return of the Office of Technology Assessment

OPM: Postal workers not affected by Trump’s workforce executive orders

Sen. Sanders pitches USPS as one-stop shop for mail, printing, banking

The delicate budget balancing act

Kevin Kosar: When policy advocacy slips into propaganda

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