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- Trump administration asks all feds to justify their jobs or risk losing themby Eric Katz on February 23, 2025 at 12:33 am
Employees throughout government are receiving emails asking them what they did last week.
- OPM triggers more RIFs after ‘clean cleaving’ an entire officeby Eric Katz on February 22, 2025 at 1:54 pm
“The job will not get done without our work,” one laid off employee said.
- Pentagon may break up tech offices in acquisition-policy shiftby Patrick Tucker on February 21, 2025 at 10:16 pm
Shakeup may also consolidate service PEO functions and put more R&D costs on industry, a Pentagon source says.
- Science Dems press NASA about data security as DOGE turns its attention to the agencyby Edward Graham on February 21, 2025 at 10:12 pm
A space agency official told House lawmakers that DOGE “has identified an individual who will be employed by NASA.”
- Judge denies federal unions’ request to block mass probationary firingsby Sean Michael Newhouse on February 21, 2025 at 6:01 pm
The federal judge said in a preliminary ruling that the National Treasury Employees Union likely must first bring their challenge to the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
- Trump’s plan to slash the federal workforce isn’t the first, it’s just the worstby Tom Shoop on February 20, 2025 at 8:24 pm
COMMENTARY | The triple-meat-cleaver approach to workforce “reform.”
- Senate confirms Kash Patel to lead FBIby David DiMolfetta on February 20, 2025 at 8:13 pm
Patel is now poised to lead an agency he has long criticized of being politically biased against Donald Trump
- Salt Typhoon hackers exploited stolen credentials and a 7-year-old software flaw in Cisco systemsby David DiMolfetta on February 20, 2025 at 6:52 pm
The Chinese hacking collective has widely leveraged vulnerabilities in communications infrastructure to breach dozens of telecom providers in the U.S. and overseas.
- Virginia governor pressed to support federal workers and contractorsby Nick Wakeman on February 20, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Fairfax County’s board of supervisors chairman says the Trump administration’s proposed workforce reductions threaten Virginia’s economy and wants Gov. Youngkin to take action.
- DOGE employee Edward Coristine lands at CISA with DHS emailby David DiMolfetta on February 20, 2025 at 12:03 am
A handle dubbed “Rivage” was reportedly tied to Coristine, and used to discuss and solicit hacking activities with a cybercrime syndicate known as The Com.
- IRS expected to fire 6,700 employees beginning Thursdayby Eric Katz and Natalie Alms on February 19, 2025 at 11:12 pm
The terminations will walk back much of the progress IRS, which is in the midst of tax season, has made in recent years to increase its workforce.
- Diversion of Security Fee funds from TSA harms screening tech adoption, report warnsby Edward Graham on February 19, 2025 at 9:19 pm
One-third of the September 11 Security Fee meant to fund the TSA is being redirected to help reduce the national debt.
- Thousands join class actions as fired feds weigh options to challenge Trump’s movesby Eric Katz on February 19, 2025 at 8:06 pm
Former federal probationary employees are hopeful they can prove their dismissals were not actually performance based, as their agencies claim.
- Trump to nominate John Eisenberg to head Justice’s national security divisionby David DiMolfetta on February 19, 2025 at 6:01 pm
During his time as a legal advisor in the first Trump administration, Eisenberg reportedly ordered a 2019 call with the Ukrainian president to be secured on a classified server, turning it into the central evidence in Trump’s first impeachment inquiry.
- Microsoft debuts new superconductor chip designed for quantum computingby Alexandra Kelley on February 19, 2025 at 4:00 pm
The newly termed “topoconductor,” Majorana 1, is designed to support large qubit data processing for a future quantum computer.
- Katie Arrington announces she is DOD’s new CISOby David DiMolfetta on February 19, 2025 at 4:19 am
Arrington, who was once accused of disclosing classified data, was a major proponent of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program used for DOD contractors.
- Longtime GSA employee quits rather than give Musk ally access to Notify.govby Natalie Alms on February 18, 2025 at 11:15 pm
The leader of the Technology Transformation Services at GSA wanted access to a text messaging platform for government agencies.
- Federal workers decry recent firings in Presidents’ Day protestby David DiMolfetta on February 18, 2025 at 11:11 pm
“All I ask is that [the White House] follow f****** federal employment laws,” said one Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee.
- 168 employees fired at National Science Foundationby Eric Katz, Alexandra Kelley, and David DiMolfetta on February 18, 2025 at 6:52 pm
“Panch has been conveniently absent throughout this whole time,” said an internal email an NSF worker sent to fellow colleagues, referring to Sethuraman Panchanathan, NSF’s director.
- Dozens of employees at U.S. DOGE Service dismissedby Natalie Alms on February 16, 2025 at 7:44 pm
Personnel from Elon Musk’s efficiency service were the latest to be dismissed.
- Lawmaker looks to strengthen security of U.S. communications following UK’s Apple backdoor orderby Edward Graham and David DiMolfetta on February 15, 2025 at 12:27 am
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released a discussion draft of a measure to reform the CLOUD Act after the UK ordered Apple to build a backdoor into encrypted iCloud backups.
- GSA tech modernization office pauses government-wide cloud collaboration groupsby David DiMolfetta on February 14, 2025 at 9:20 pm
The communities of practice are designed to help feds learn more about technology and cybersecurity topics involving the cloud computing space. At least 100 GSA employees have been let go in recent days.
- Employees helming the U.S. nuclear stockpile among those terminatedby Alexandra Kelley on February 14, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Probational employees at Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday as concerns over DOGE access to sensitive information mounts.
- StateRAMP to rebrand later this yearby Chris Teale on February 14, 2025 at 7:05 pm
The voluntary program will be rebranded as “GovRAMP” to better reflect that its offerings can be used by local governments, educational institutions and others, the organization’s executive director told Route Fifty.
- A five-step plan for securing generative AI at government agenciesby Elad Schulman on February 14, 2025 at 5:00 pm
Here’s how to do it right.