The days are getting longer and the pull is getting stronger for Feds and techies of all stripes to put on a little green and join us at Tech Tonic on March 13 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., to get brand-new intel on Federal AI plans and take an early swing at celebrating St. Paddy’s Day. […]
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued an order on March 5 that blocks – at least for 45 days – actions by the Agriculture Department since mid-February to fire nearly 5,700 of the agency’s probationary employees – or employees that generally have less than two years on the job. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has unveiled its highly anticipated updated data strategy that details the agency’s plans to optimize data usage over the next two years. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that it plans to cut roughly 72,000 employees from its rolls, or about 15 percent of its workforce. […]
The U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and European Command (EUCOM) are first in line to receive new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities to help tackle some of the combatant commands’ tech-related challenges. […]
House Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats are looking to find out more about top White House advisor Elon Musk and his potential conflicts of interest while guiding the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) actions to root out what the Trump administration has called widespread government waste and corruption. […]
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 12-11 along party lines today to approve President Donald Trump’s pick for deputy secretary of the Department of Labor. […]
A Federal district court judge in Rhode Island ruled today to approve a preliminary injunction that blocks the Trump administration from pursuing a freeze on trillions of dollars of congressionally approved grant and loan funding. […]
Members of the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development met Wednesday to discuss updating the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to include digital literacy training, AI implementations, and improved data management. […]
Dan Bishop, the president’s nominee for deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told lawmakers today he takes issue with the constitutionality of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and will join in lockstep with OMB Director Russell Vought to push back against the law. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) is shifting its focus to contracting in its latest push to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices across the agency by unveiling a new policy that removes DEI-related provisions from contracts. […]
Members of the House Homeland Security Committee fielded recommendations on March 4 from witnesses on how to combat online radicalization – including one national security expert who said Congress should consider creating regulations of social media platforms. […]
A Federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s attempted firing of Cathy Harris, the chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), after determining that the president “lacks the power” to fire Harris “at will.” […]
President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night called for Congress to undo the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act approved by lawmakers in 2022 to, among other aims, provide up to $52 billion in funding to bolster the U.S. semiconductor industry. […]
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced several cybersecurity and technology bills during a Tuesday afternoon markup, sending the legislation to the full House for further consideration. […]
A House subcommittee heard testimonies this afternoon on challenges faced by U.S. air traffic control (ATC) systems and operators while evaluating risks posed to aviation safety by recent Federal layoffs. […]
A group of Democratic lawmakers joined members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and community activists on Tuesday in rallying to evict Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). […]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has appointed Katie Arrington acting chief information officer (CIO) of the Department of Defense (DoD), just weeks after Arrington announced her return to the department as its chief information security officer (CISO). […]
Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the Pentagon’s policy chief, told senators today that the president’s concept for a “Golden Dome” missile defense for the U.S. is both necessary and possible to achieve. […]
Telehealth coverage under Medicare is set to expire at the end of this month, but a new bill from Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., aims to make telehealth coverage permanent for senior citizens. […]
The House voted on March 3 to approve a bill requiring the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to take steps to prevent cybersecurity vulnerabilities posed by Federal contractors. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is reinstating most of the probationary employees that it laid off while following directions from the Trump administration to cut those employees from its workforce. […]
A recent Federal watchdog report is urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to pause further investments in the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) laser communications technology until it can provide more evidence of its effectiveness in space. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) sent an email to all of its civilian employees today asking them to list five things they accomplished last week, an official at the DoD confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order that declares English to be the official language of the United States leaves Federal government agencies – many of which provide services in multiple languages to reach people with limited English proficiency – on their own as to how to provide those services following the order. […]
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is offering its employees incentives to reduce the agency’s workforce by 7,000 people as part of what the SSA is billing as a “massive reorganization.” […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has shut down its 18F organization, a digital consulting office created during the Obama administration to partner with agencies to help them build or buy technology services. […]
A member of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) stepped down last week, leaving the board with only a narrow quorum to act as its case load quickly mounts following the Trump administration’s moves to quickly reduce the Federal workforce. […]
The Department of Energy’s National Laboratories are getting a boost from artificial intelligence systems following the announcement of a collaboration between AI company OpenAI and the nation’s leading scientific research labs. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to update requirements in its Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) program to improve its cost estimate and schedule. […]