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By Natalie Alms   The National Academy of Public Administrations congressionally mandated report on Office of Personnel Management concludes that the federal human resources agency should remain independent. The report was ordered in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act at the behest of House Democrats who had thwarted the Trump administrations plan to merge OPM into the General Service Administration and wanted a top-down look at the functioning of the agency. "OPM as we know it today ...

By Natalie Alms   Within 24 hours of receiving its most substantial boost yet, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) awarded the Department of Labor $9.6 million to modernize its enterprise data infrastructure on Friday. The announcement of the 11 th ever TMF project came the day after the fund received a $1 billion funding boost from the American Rescue Plan. Thats a dramatic expansion for the fund, which has been getting appropriations of around $25 million. "The news of the Technology Mo...

Quick Hits Deb Haaland, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, to lead the Department of the Interior by a vote of 51 to 40 on Monday. Haaland becomes the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary. The Interior Department employs more than 60,000 people and spends $1.4 billion on IT annually. *** Stefanie Tompkins was sworn in on Monday as the 23rd director of the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency. Tompkins is returning to DARPA after a stint as vice presid...

The body in charge of standing up and running the Defense Department’s unified cybersecurity standard is shifting its staffing arrangement.

Essential federal employees will be eligible for vaccines in the District of Columbia next month. Employees are considered essential if they cant perform their job duties remotely or via telework and have to report to work in-person during the pandemic, according to guidance released by the District on Monday. The Phase 1C Tier 3 that covers them will open up the week of April 12. This week, employees at the Postal Service also became eligible in the district. That expansion, however, wont inc...

The intelligence communitys newly declassified report largely concludes Russia attempted to meddle in the U.S. election through influence operations but did not attempt the kinds of cyberattacks observed in 2016.

Sounding off: Veterans say their standard-issue earplugs caused hearing loss One of the largest mass tort cases in the U.S. is heading to trial this month Sounding Off By Jackson Hicks and Sandra Jones | March 16, 2021 at 7:50 AM HST - Updated March 23 at 8:42 AM (InvestigateTV) - Hundreds of thousands of veterans across the country say they’ve suffered hearing loss and permanent ringing in their ears after their government-issued ear plugs failed to protect them. “I had the hearing of...

The administration has ordered a wide-ranging assessment of the risks to various supply chain. Analysts, former government officials and industry say a large workforce gap and problematic frameworks are among the threats cybersecurity poses to the countrys supply chains.

McCarthy called for the politicization of the U.S. military to "stop now," after a series of political controversies.

Jake Sullivan, the national security advisor, says President Joe Biden discussed both the supply chain attack on SolarWinds and vulnerabilities being exploited in Microsoft Exchange with leaders of Japan, India and Australia.