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By Natalie Alms   Federal agencies are under orders to rethink workspaces and employee and visitor activity to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Office of Management and Budget issued new safety principles Jan. 24 in a memo that implements an executive order requiring masks and physical distancing on federal land and by federal employees and contractors. OMB is instructing agencies to continue to maximize the use of telework and to take other measures to implement safety measures like enhanced...

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby provided the following readout:Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Republic of Korea (ROK) Minister of National Defense Suh Wook today to reaffirm the ironclad U.S.-ROK Alliance and,

By Natalie Alms   President Joe Biden has nominated Ernest DuBester to be the chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the agency that governs labor-management relations. "It is a great privilege and an honor to be chosen by President Biden to serve as chairman of the FLRA," DuBester said in a statement. The chairmanship is effective immediately without Senate confirmation, said Aloysius Hogan, the director of the Office of Legislative Affairs and Program Planning at the FLRA. Und...

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Crystal Guevara, 36th Medical Group allergy immunization technician, fills a need with a COVID-19 vaccination on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Jan. 21, 2021. In situations when there is good scientific reason to believe...

The OMB director and the head of the Domestic Policy Council will play key roles in implementing the objectives of a new executive order, which eliminates a Trump-era purge of diversity training materials and include the creation of a new data working group .

Probst/ullstein bild via Getty Images The Trump-installed General Counsel of the National Security Agency has been put on administrative leave a day after starting the role, due to a Department of Defense inspector general probe, CNN reported.  Michael Elliss installation just before President Joe Biden took office garnered criticism that the Trump administration was trying to burrow a loyalist in a civilian position.  Michael Ellis, the National Security Agency ...

United States Provides more than USD$1 Million in Vehicles, Equipment to the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program

NEWS | Jan. 20, 2021 U.S. Provides More Than USD$1 Million in Vehicles, Equipment to the Lao National Unexploded Ordnance Program U.S. Embassy in Laos VIENTIANE, LAO PDR -- The United States contributed 16 new 4×4 vehicles and 134 UXO detectors, worth more than USD$1 million at a handover ceremony held at the UXO Lao Training Center in Vientiane on January 19, 2021. U.S. Ambassador to Lao PDR Dr. Peter M. Haymond was joined at the event by Deputy Minister of Labor ...

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Ray Gerber, the commanding officer of III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, III MEF receives the COVID-19 vaccine on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 20, 2021. This was the first distribution of the vaccine on Camp...

Full results of the delayed Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey wont be out until the spring, according to the Office of Personnel Management, but a preliminary look at topline results suggests federal employee job satisfaction is improving.