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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...

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 .

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.

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Crisis situations like this one can induce the fog-of-war and lead to tradeoffs during remediation. While we may not know the full extent of the damage for some time, as is always the case in an event like this, we need to stop the bleeding. We must not afford the adversary an easy path to more information. Quick Hits *** Almost 400 jobs at the Office of Management and Budget have been approved for reclassification to Schedule F status, according to a letter from two senior House Democrats. Re...

By Justin Katz   Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administrations candidate to lead the Department of Homeland Securit, shown at an agency event in 2016. (Photo credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Lora Ratliff / U.S. Coast Guard) Alejandro Mayorkas, at his Senate confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security, said he will review the federal governments two major cybersecurity programs in the wake of the SolarWinds breach. Mayorkas said he would conduct "a thorough review of Einstei...

Trump pauses at a 2018 rally. (Photo credit: Evan El-Amin/ Shutterstock.com) The SolarWinds hack, first detected in December 2020, colors any assessment of the cybersecurity legacy of the administration of President Donald Trump. During Trumps last days in office, as the president pressed to overturn the results of the November election, the federal government scrambled to contain the fallout from an ongoing intelligence operation believed to be the worst intrusion in the countrys history. Trum...

By Justin Katz   The National Security Agency today announced Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the chief of its cybersecurity directorate. Joyce, a 2018 Fed 100 winner, is currently serving as a special liaison officer for the NSA at the U.S. Embassy in London. He was previously a senior advisor for cybersecurity strategy to the NSA director. Prior to that he was a special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator in the National Security Council for the Trump administra...

Bidens Cabinet will be the first to include a "Presidential Science Advisor," Dr. Eric Lander, who Biden nominated to serve as OSTP director.

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration continues to have problems with managing identity cards it issues to contractors to access its buildings and IT systems, according to a report from agencys Office of Inspector General. The report, issued on Nov. 4, covers an audit period between February, 2017 and August, 2019. It builds on an OIG 2016 audit that found the agency couldnt account for 15,000 of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards it issued to its contractors. The...