People
Senate Dems could block bills as feds are impacted by shutdown
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and a group of federal employees detailed the impact of the shutdown, calling for the Senate to pass funding bills and protections for federal employees.
Digital Government
How the shutdown affects open data
Developers rely on government data to build public-facing apps and services, and a lapse in appropriations can make things complicated.
Acquisition
House funding bill zeroes out IT modernization fund
The funding bill introduced by House Democrats to end the shutdown zeroes out a popular program among the federal IT community.
People
Shutdown 'perfectly timed to prevent people from joining government'
The federal workforce takes the brunt of the shutdown impact, but there's another group who may be dissuaded from joining government altogether: young prospective employees and students.
Acquisition
What's in store for rank-and-file feds and managers in 2019?
A change in the political control of the House of Representatives could mean more leverage for federal unions and a focus on workforce policies that both sides of the aisle can support.
Digital Government
Senate passes plan to invest $1.2 billion in quantum research
The Senate has cleared the way for the president to approve implementation of a 10-year plan to accelerate quantum computing research and development.
Modernization
Lawmakers irked by lagging CIO authorities
While applauding the best-ever progress made on the FITARA scorecard, oversight lawmakers are frustrated with slow progress in some aspects of IT modernization.
People
Agencies take a beating in 2018 Best Places to Work report
The federal government generally looks like a less enjoyable place to work than it did a year ago, and a dearth of effective leadership gets most of the blame.
Cybersecurity
OMB expands definition of high-value assets
The Office of Management and Budget is making sure all agencies develop plans to protect their most sensitive, most valuable cybersecurity assets, and designate an agency-level office or team to secure them.
Cybersecurity
Senate clears DHS info-sharing bill
The Senate cleared a bill to boost information sharing and data access at the Department of Homeland Security, sending it one step closer to the president's desk.
People
Top Oversight Dem urges OSC to rescind 'resistance' memo
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants the Office of Special Counsel to rescind a memorandum cautioning feds against "resistance" and impeachment talk in the workplace.
Digital Government
Will Democrats revive the Office of Technology Assessment in 2019?
House Democrats have been backing a revival of the congressional tech consultancy in recent years. Now that they control the House, can the OTA make a comeback?
Acquisition
Census adds test on controversial citizenship question
Amid lawsuits and legal uncertainty, the Census Bureau announced plans to conduct a last-minute field test to measure the potential impact of the citizenship question on response rates and accuracy.
People
Public interest in records schedules booms
The National Archives and Records Administration is seeing a spike in comments on routine records dispensation notices.
People
OSC warns against anti-Trump 'resistance' chatter
A memo from a civil service protection office warns feds about possible Hatch Act violations arising from impeachment chatter or mentions of "resistance" while on the job.
Cybersecurity
OMB looks to retrain feds to fill cyber needs
The federal government is taking steps to fill high-demand, skills-gap positions in tech by retraining employees already working within agencies without a cyber or IT background.
Acquisition
OPM extends credit monitoring, expects new contract by year's end
The Office of Personnel Management says it expects to wrap up the re-compete award for its credit monitoring contract covering those whose data was breached as part of the OPM hacks.
People
MSPB to close 2018 without a quorum
After going nearly all of 2017 without a quorum, the Merit Systems Protection Board will likely not be able to address its growing backlog of nearly 1,600 cases in 2018.
Cybersecurity
Details still elusive on possible federal data privacy standard
As momentum for federal data privacy legislation continue to build, senators on both sides of the aisle are looking to the Federal Trade Commission as the enforcement entity for data protection.
People
Unions sue VA over move to curtail official time
Three federal unions are suing Department of Veterans Affairs for its plan to alter its collective bargaining deal to move more than 400 employees off of union work.
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