*** The Bureau of Land Management relocated its headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo. under the Trump administration and in September, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the agency would move back to Washington, D.C. headquarters. The move led to a "significant loss of institutional memory and talent," Haaland said at the time, because few agency employees relocated. Now a Government Accountability Office report released last week found that BLM "does not have an agency-wide strategic workforce plan that supports its mission and programmatic goals." The report recommended BLM implement a strategic workforce plan and start tracking vacancies at a higher level of detail.
*** The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Security Agency are advising operators of 5G cloud infrastructures to take steps to harden their systems against intrusion and compromise by taking steps to detect unauthorized lateral movement across the network and to isolate individual elements of the 5G cloud network. The document released last week is the second in a planned four-part series on threats to 5G cloud.
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