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Workforce

Telework, IT modernization emerge as early DOGE targets

The plans for DOGE continue to evolve, but some early themes are emerging as lawmakers start to weigh in with their own ideas.

Defense News

Defense Department’s Replicator program must increase its speed

Congress

2 bipartisan bills take aim at federal hiring process, retirement benefits

Hiring/Retention

House lawmakers push hiring reforms for federal jobs

Congress

The swirling sound you hear is Congress going 'round and 'round on some old ideas

Federal Newscast

OPM hopes to make it easier for women to join Senior Executive Service

Defense

DoD budget largely flat, cuts legacy systems for modernization

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)

Federal Newscast

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

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)

Federal Newscast

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

Anil Cheriyan is the director of the Technology Transformation Services at GSA.

Reporter's Notebook

GSA’s 18F expects to be in the black in 2020

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Federal Drive

Bipartisan legislation proposed to end reverse auctions of federal construction projects

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks during the signing of an order withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands, at EPA headquarters in Washington. Ernst says she turned down Donald Trump's request to run as his vice president in 2016 because of family concerns. Ernst made the claim in an affidavit in a divorce proceeding in October that was first reported by CityView, a Des Moines weekly newspaper. The filing was unsealed earlier this month after Ernst and her former husband of 25 years, Gail Ernst, settled their previously contentious divorce. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Federal Newscast

New bill would allow agencies to fire employees found guilty of sexual assault

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Federal Newscast

House proposal would require federal employees receive Internet of Things cyber training

Federal Newscast

Norton, Wexton seek justification for BLM relocation move

Crime scene tape surrounds the Robert Morris Apartments in Morrisville, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. A woman and her teenage daughter are facing homicide charges in the deaths of multiple relatives, including children, inside an apartment at the complex in suburban Philadelphia, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Federal Drive

Federal law enforcement group objects to proposed changes for use of force

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Defense

New DoD policy aims to crack down on alleged price gouging by TransDigm

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Technology

Upcoming IDEA Act deadlines task agencies with digital service overhaul

An F-35C Lightning II test aircraft approaches for a landing aboard the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower of the coast of Norfolk, Va., Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The aircraft is expected to be deployed with the Navy in 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Federal Newscast

Navy says F-35 is ready for action

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Technology

Trump signs IDEA Act in bid to close 'tech gap' between government, private sector websites

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Federal Drive

21st Century IDEA Act requiring updated federal websites passes House

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Federal Newscast

Bill to digitize more government services passes House

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Congress

Lawmaker confident IDEA Act will pass before end of lame-duck Congress

FILE - In Dec. 14, 2016 file photo, early morning traffic rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol as daybreaks in Washington. The federal government swung to a surplus of $214.3 billion in April, 2018 primarily reflecting the revenue from that month’s annual tax filing deadline. The Treasury Department reports that last month’s surplus increased 17.4 percent from a year ago. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Congress

New bill would extend identity protection benefits for feds compromised in OPM breach