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David E Sanger, The New York Times
Published: 23 Dec 2020 11:42 AM BdST
Updated: 23 Dec 2020 11:42 AM BdST President-elect Joe Biden during a news conference at The Queen Theatre in Wilmington, Del, Dec 22, 2020. The New York Times
President-elect Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of “irrational downplaying” of the widespread hack of the federal government and American industry, saying that the current administration was denying him needed intelligence and warning Russia that he would not allow the intrusion into US systems to “go unanswered” after he takes office. );
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“This assault happened on Donald Trump’s watch when he wasn’t watching,’’ Biden said at a news conference in Delaware. “It is still his responsibility as president to defend American interests for the next four weeks, but rest assured that even if he does not take it seriously, I will.”
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The president’s pay agent declined to authorize a number of recommended changes to existing locality pay areas, overruling a federal advisory board.
The Trump administration last week rejected the recommendations of a federal advisory council on employee compensation to add locations to the list of locality pay areas despite not meeting all the criteria for inclusion in the program that accounts for the increased labor costs of high cost-of-living regions.
Last year, the Federal Salary Council unanimously recommended that Wayne County, Pa., be included as part of the existing New York-Newark, N.Y.-N.J.-Conn.-Pa. locality pay area, despite the fact that it failed to meet the minimum number of General Schedule employees required for consideration due to federal agencies’ inability to attract job applicants.
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No Failures in Latest FITARA Scorecard But 5 Agencies Slip Lucky-photographer/Shutterstock.com
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In a first, every agency got an A on at least one metric. But a new column on telecom transition brought several agencies down.
Taking the long view, federal agencies have been making progress on IT modernization goals since the House began tracking them in 2015 through a biannual scorecard. But the latest report card shows some slippage, mostly due to a new metric.
Since the passage of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform has commissioned two scorecards each year measuring agencies progress in a host of IT reform areas.