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Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

The Senate committee’s version of the 2025 NDAA, advanced last week, supported a 2% federal pay raise for civilian feds and a 4.5% raise for military…

Pay

IRS has 37,000 webpages. About 2% get nearly all of its traffic

IT Modernization

Graphic by: Derace Lauderdale

customer service, customer experence, Customer satisfaction - Employee engagement

How about night and weekend customer service — in person?

Management

DHS names China, AI, cyber standards as key priorities for critical infrastructure

Cybersecurity

GSA

Individual desks that can be moved to create collaboration spaces in GSA’s new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy GSA)

GSA gets a refreshed set of recommendations for dealing with real property

Leasing/Property Management

How one agency deals with digitizing its rich trove of cultural heritage records

Management

Federal effort that reduced coal mining dangers

Workforce

Teleworking DoD employees targeted by House spending bill

Federal Newscast

VA looking at ‘smart home’ tech to keep aging, disabled vets living independently

Veterans Affairs

National Guard, southern borderSoldiers in the Army National Guard conduct a security search

Guard’s support of DHS adds no military value

Defense

Energy working with renewables industry, cloud providers on cyber requirements

Cybersecurity

Early-career federal job openings seeing ‘renewed and increased’ interest, OPM’s Shriver says

Larger impacts of OPM’s hiring changes are likely further down the road, but early signs are pointing in the right direction for early-career recruitment.

Hiring/Retention

GSA contracting officers are driving schedule holders crazy

Contractors on the GSA’s multiple-award schedule say contracting officers are trying to re-negotiate contracts and making unreasonable demands for information.

Contracting

IRS adds another state to Direct File, as House Republicans seek to defund it

IT Modernization

About 580,000 Oregon residents will be eligible to use the IRS’ Direct File platform next filing season, as long as the program remains funded.