Agency Oversight

Feds in fatigues, too fatigued to properly do their jobs, GAO says

The watchdog group found that military personal consistently get less than six hours of sleep each night, which could compromise safety.

Federal Newscast

Congressional staff, Congress, minibus, funding, budget

Understatement: Congress doesn’t function properly

Federal Report

Military Family, Military Spouse

Warm handovers leave some transitioning service members out in the cold

Agency Oversight

Executive Order on AI

Labor-Management Forums arrive late in Biden administration

Management

Agencies continue to struggle with overspending when doling out benefits

Federal Newscast

FILE - This March 10, 2017 file photo shows the WhatsApp communications app on a smartphone, in New York. The messaging app WhatsApp has sued the Indian government seeking to defend its users' privacy and stop new rules that would require it to make messages “traceable” to external parties. WhatsApp filed the lawsuit Wednesday, May 26, 2021 in the Delhi High Court, and is arguing that the government rules regarding the traceability of messages are unconstitutional and undermine the fundamental right to privacy. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

First Look

Senate bill aims to bring federal records law into the age of ‘WhatsApp’

Agency Oversight

Getty Images/iStockphoto/designer491

Freedom of Information Act

What to do about those ever-rising FOIA request backlogs

Agency Oversight

Whistle blower or whistleblower concept as a symbol of a secret informer agent posing as an employee with his cast shadow of a whistle as a metaphor for inside infoermation on misconduct in a 3D illustration style.

Justice Department’s new whistleblower program

Management

Agency Oversight

Little-known law needs Justice Department attention

Agency Oversight

Farm Credit Administration, McLean, VA

When the government calls, this senior executive makes the move

Agency Oversight

Senate to take $100M back from TMF, $10M from USDS

Budget

Homeland Security’s CWMD unit loses 10% of staff, faces continued attrition concerns

Attrition woes at the CWMD office come as it also grapples with some of the lowest employee engagement scores in the federal government.

Hiring/Retention

Postal Service Electric Vehicles

First Look

USPS mail price hikes driving away more customers than predicted, study finds

USPS is underestimating how much recent mail price hikes are driving away some of its biggest customers, an industry report finds.

Agency Oversight

Congress

Newest Capitol Hill activity and keeping the government funded

Government Shutdown

Nothing happened over the weekend in Congress, as a Friday deadline is still looming.

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