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Federal Newscast

SBA names its third CIO in two years

Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Labor Relations Authority has issued a complaint against EEOC over office-reentry policies. And the Air Force is embracing privacy during pregnancy.

Defense

Abortion bans cause privacy, financial issues for service members, despite DoD's efforts

Congress

Defense funding topline up in the air for 2023 after committees release bills

Federal Newscast

EPA changing onboarding process due to pandemic's effect on the workplace

Army

Army implements sweeping parental, pregnancy, postpartum policies

Defense

New campaign asks service members to share stories to push sexual assault reforms farther

Veterans Affairs

VA helps women-owned small businesses get a slice of the federal contracting pie

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. The U.S. Army, for the first time, is offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who sign up for six years. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Federal Newscast

40 lawmakers call for 5% increase in Defense budget

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Twila Stone readies her weapon during a Memorial Day ceremony May 28, 2012, at the Texas State Veteran Cemetery in Abilene, Texas. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Stone is assigned to the 7th Logistics Readiness Squadron.

Air Force

Air Force weeding out policies prohibitive to women

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Federal Newscast

Unions want VA to educate employees on pandemic resources

Workforce

Keeping women in government takes reimagining solutions

Freshman midshipmen, known as plebes, climb ropes on an obstacle course during Sea Trials, a day of physical and mental challenges that caps off the freshman year at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Defense

Biden signs order making sexual harassment a punishable offense in military

Workforce

OPM to create Chief Diversity Officer Council to elevate role across government

Bradey Police Lt. Philip Trudeau, left, comforts Bourbonnais Police officer Andy Cox following a ceremonial procession for fallen Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, in Bourbonnais, Ill. Rittmanic died after a shooting at a Comfort Inn the night before. (Tiffany Blanchette/The Daily Journal via AP)

Federal Newscast

New database aims to get a better understanding of suicide within law enforcement

Airman First Class Brandy Fraher, who is in the final stages of her pregnancy, receives an examination from Major Noreen Burke during a unit training assembly. With restrictions, non flying pregnant Reservists may participate in all UTAs and annual tours until the 34th week of the pregnancy.

Air Force

Air Force expanding maternity uniform access for airmen

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2021, file photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group hosts the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Military service members must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.” (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP)

Federal Newscast

Just how many vaccine exemptions has the military given out?

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Federal Newscast

New features to help modernize Thrift Savings Plan

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Federal Newscast

Navy's top doctor says it may be time to require COVID-19 vaccine for service members

FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, traffic flows through the main gate past a welcome sign in Fort Hood, Texas. A new study finds that female soldiers at Army bases in Texas, Colorado, Kansas and Kentucky face a greater risk of sexual assault and harassment than those at other posts, accounting for more than a third of all active duty Army women sexually assaulted in 2018. The study by RAND Corporation was released Friday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Army

Study: Texas bases lead Army posts in risk of sexual assault

Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Squadron, 2d Cavalry Regiment prepare for departure aboard an aircraft at the Nuremberg Airport, Germany, July 26, 2018. 3/2CR is en route to Georgia to participate in Noble Partner 18 - a Georgian Armed Forces and U.S. Army Europe cooperatively-led exercise in its fourth iteration. The exercise is intended to support and enhance the readiness and interoperability of Georgia, the U.S. and participating nations during a multinational training operation. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Ellen C. Brabo)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Pentagon preparing sole-source contract to replace Defense Travel System

FILE - In this April 2, 2014, file photo, members of the media wait outside of the Bernie Beck Gate, an entrance to the Fort Hood military base in Fort Hood, Texas. Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money in 10 bank accounts from a couple of U.S. Army veterans in Texas, who they say used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military out of as much as $11 million. In an affidavit filed in court in June 2020 seeking to search the couple's home in Killeen, near Fort Hood, investigators described how they allegedly used a transportation reimbursement program to swindle the Army out of $2.3 million to $11.3 million. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Calls to move military sexual assault cases to independent prosecutors reach a boiling point

Soldiers shopping in a military exchange store

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Military exchanges to open their doors to civilian employees starting in May

U.S. Air Force basic military training trainees are issued personal computers during in-processing as part of a pilot test under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement partnership at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, Dec. 11, 2019. The computers replace all hard copy

textbooks BMT trainees currently use with the intent to help BMT assess learning outcomes, value and return on investment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarayuth Pinthong)

Air Force

Air Force trying to diversify its largely white, male pilot corps with new strategy