Rep. Himes pointed to how several major defense and intelligence contractors made donations to the new White House ballroom.

Written proposals are becoming the minimum expectation, not the competitive advantage.

"It gets complicated when the president weighs in with an apparent conclusion or one that could be misread as an apparent conclusion," said David Robbins.

"We have to migrate to new cryptologic standards. We have to protect the data that we need to protect today. And the clock is ticking," said Victor Foulk.

The U.S. National Security Agency and military intelligence forces are set to guard election systems during the November midterms. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the plan on Monday. Military cybersecurity experts have been involved since election equipment was deemed "critical infrastructure" in 2017. This announcement comes after President Donald Trump dismantled the civilian agency meant to protect election infrastructure. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency last week released its own security plan for election systems. With early voting underway, some experts criticize the timing as mere theater. Trump has already signed two executive orders seeking to nationalize certain election processes.

Officials hope ingraining the team into the bureaucracy it looks to reform will make it an "enduring institutional mechanism."

"The administration had less leeway in this space because the affirmative action requirements here are based on statute," said Guy Brenner.

So far, about 2,400 federal job announcements now contain a different essay question for applicants, at the direction of the Office of Personnel Management.

The vice president of public sector at Qlik says that as agentic AI tools mature, agencies need to improve data literacy and trust their data.

The letter points to a June 2026 inspector general report that found the Secret Service’s effectiveness was at risk due to staffing and resource constraints.

"It's an unsustainable model and ultimately one that they're not getting paid enough to do," said Tyson Bertone-Riggs.

The latest incidents didn't appear to involve the disclosure of any nonpublic information but were concerning enough for OpenAI to warn the agencies involved.

It revealed the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, job specialties and other records of nearly 2.8 million living and 294,000 deceased individuals.

"We're certainly unlikely to see a package before the election at this rate, just given the amount of days left and people's attention," said Loren Duggan.

"Our 21st-Century military serves a long time. They're married, they have children, they're sometimes dual military," said Kathy Roth-Douquet.

Some former Kennedy Center employees are accusing officials at the performing arts venue of long knowing about structural issues they recently cited as new problems. The anonymous whistleblowers allege in a letter to Congress that top Kennedy Center official Matt Floca halted a funded plan to address roofing issues in April. Floca denies that and says recent investigations revealed new hazards at the building. The center closed temporarily in September as officials cited safety risks from structural deterioration. A judge has ordered a status report by Friday on the temporary closure.

The Army Communications-Electronics Command wants to empower rank-and-file soldiers to find more uses for AI and come up with new agents on their own too.

The leaders of the StateChat project say their playbook offers practical and deployable help to implement generative AI tools.

"Everything that we do within critical technologies is outcomes-based," Mike Dodd said.

While some messaging blaming the shutdown on Democrats "might" have violated the law, OSC said it would be waste of limited resources to investigate further.

"We are facing imminent changes potentially to how we're running our elections," said Dr. Beth Noveck.

"It's really been a holistic effort that is long overdue, but we have welcomed the changes," said Megan Petersen.

MyData will provide Sailors with greater visibility into their personnel information.

Under the settlement agreement, the Trump administration agreed to inform agencies that all remaining shutdown-related RIF plans have been abandoned.

As mobile IDs replace plastic cards, agencies must modernize legacy systems to balance citizen privacy with frontline safety.

The HHS deputy assistant secretary for acquisitions explains how a three-pronged effort is helping the agency prepare its workforce to use AI.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao provided the information to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter this week.

An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement. The U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Thursday documents costly problems with several initiatives ICE has pursued since President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered the mass detention and deportation of people who were in the country illegally. Among the outlays singled out in the report was nearly $3 million spent on tents at Guantanamo Bay that were never used and $20 million that was spent maintaining purchased warehouses that are being sold without ever housing a single detainee.

The White House found some of the messages it received from spouses so pressing that it has referred them to federal agencies for help.

Stacy Bostjanick, a former DoD executive and Tara Lemieux, an Army veteran, electronic warfare signals intelligence officer, explain why CMMC needs to continue.

Overton said she would “follow the statutory requirements” for FDA commissioners and give Trump her best advice.

Three provisions Congress should add to this year's NDAA would close the gap without asking DHA to invent anything new.

Most agencies missed a deadline to adopt cloud security standards. The DHS IG found CISA lacks the authority to enforce its "binding operational directives."

Five current and former civilian workers are asking the MSPB to order the government to pay reservist differential pay it owes going all the way back to 2009.

"There are really great resources on the site that can be used for anyone, particularly those that really need... help," said Alana Vivolo-Kantor.

The IG found DOJ continues to lack a strategy for managing the risks of so-called "ubiquitous technical surveillance” on its employees and operations.

"The idea again is that all of this future growth gets to be tax free and it helps for a lot of different reasons like RMDs and Medicare," Thiago Glieger.

"I think it's kind of irresponsible to think that we're ever going to arrest or seize our way out of the drug problem," said Eric Balliet.

Agencies should use AI to stress-test programs before launch and measure how quickly they can stop a newly discovered scheme.

Two of the White House’s picks have sat in limbo for more than a year, while a third stalled over the summer.

The increasingly competitive bidding landscape for government projects makes a fine-tuned capture process essential to growth for contractors.

It's the first major combat pay bump in more than two decades.

You're ready for retirement, but do you know the best day to retire?

"This will be the very first U.S. based sled track anywhere on the continental United States," said Nancy Maloy.

A criminal hacking group claims to have accessed “very sensitive data” on nearly all agents and job applicants.

"Our defense industrial base... makes at least as much money from selling to allies and partners as it does selling to the U.S. government," said Jim Reynolds.

"We really want everyone to understand that everyone is a creator and a user of copyrighted works every day," Miriam Lord.

The Air Force is closing its China Aerospace Studies Institute, despite previously saying the center's mission would continue.

Nearly half of all agencies now have full access to Treasury's "Do Not Pay" database, with more progress expected in the near term.

Dylan Berger, a digital content consultant for CBIZ Pivot Point Security, explains how vendors can reduce risk and maintain confidence in compliance efforts.