Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, sent out a series of letters on Feb. 3 to several Federal agencies with extensive science portfolios asking how they are complying with recent executive orders targeting diversity-related policies.   […]

Democratic and Republican members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee clashed on Wednesday on a range of tech and science topics including Federal grant funding and the Trump administration’s recent push to gut government diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. […]

Amid the wave of program cancellations sparked by the new administration’s push to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and initiatives at the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of the Air Force’s (DAF) equal employment opportunity (EEO) and military equal opportunity (MEO) programs have managed to survive. […]

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a stark warning to employees of the Department of Defense (DoD) that those who do not comply with President Donald Trump’s anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies will be terminated. […]

The Trump administration is moving to put on administrative leave all Federal employees who have been working in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility offices since Election Day, with a deadline for 5 p.m. today for layoffs to get underway. […]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to slash Federal Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) programs. The order revokes a 2021 DEIA order issued by former President Joe Biden and sets in motion a 60-day deadline to “terminate” DEI, DEIA, and environmental protection programs within Federal agencies. […]

President Donald Trump broadly hinted today – without going into much detail – at government technology and workforce-related steps that his administration will be taking in the coming days including a partial Federal government hiring freeze that was light on specifics. […]

cyber workforce

A recent report by the Aspen Institute found that despite existing efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), the cybersecurity field remains mostly homogenous among technical practitioners and policy thinkers. […]

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