Category: Federal Agency News

DARPA is working on interesting projects for the military, and their RADICS project is simulating blackouts to test responses to a cyberattack on the Country’s power grid

First space launch with humans onboard in a commercially built spaceship will be NASA’s first blastoff from the US since 2011, Space-X to Launch Astronauts for NASA

A bill proposed in the Senate would prevent Federal Employees from downloading the TikTok app on their Government phones- Is China Using TikTok to Spy on Federal Employees?

USPS Finances: Doubled Q2 2019 Losses, impacted by Coronavirus- what the current state of the US Postal Service?

The ethical hacking company, HackerOne, has been contracted by the DoD since 2017 – it recently received authorization for use across all Federal Agencies-

HHS (Health & Human Services) just issued guidance about utilizing a law from 2016 that lets the agency hire up to 2,000 scientists above the federal salary cap for Federal…

Both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have criticized the latest removal of an Inspector General, Steve Linick, Trump’s fourth such firing of 2020

Louis DeJoy will take over as the new Postmaster General, Maria Roat fills Deputy CIO Position at OMB

Teleworking has increased productivity in some agencies- like the Social Security Administration, where 53,000 feds working from home led to an 11% decrease in their backlog

Tax Refunds Delayed: Due to teleworking Feds and the CARES Act Stimulus Payments, the issuance of some Tax Refunds are being Heavily Delayed