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By Adam Mazmanian   The Presidential Rank Awards are back in 2021, after a one-year hiatus. The awards pay significant cash bonuses to recipients in the Senior Executive Service and individuals in senior level and scientific or professional (SL/ST) positions. An announcement from the Office of Personnel Management, which administers the awards, said that the resumption represents the Biden administration's "commitment to supporting the federal workforce and recognizing federal employees who serve with distinction." The program was established by the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, and there a...

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The government's leading cybersecurity agency is ordering all federal civilian agencies to provide a status report on its usage of Microsoft Exchange products by noon on Friday.

Quick Hits Greg Sisson has been named permanent chief information security officer at the Department of Energy. He had been serving as acting CISO for six months prior to his permanent appointment. Sisson has previously served at Energy as deputy CISO and director of cyber operations. *** The National Security Agencyissued guidance last week on the implementation of zero trust principles as a cybersecurity model. "Embracing a zero trust security model, and re-engineering an existing information system based on this security model, is a strategic effort that will take time to achieve full be...

By Natalie Alms   The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, home to the Office of Management and Budget. (Image credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shuterstock.com) The Biden-Harris administration isn't done reversing Trump era "damage" to the federal workforce, a White House official charged with working on federal management and agency performance issues said on Monday. "In my less than one month here, I've come to learn anecdotally and quantitatively just how systematically the federal workforce has been damaged, disrespected and demoralized over the last few years," said Pam Coleman, a former Obama W...