The president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) employee union decried employee layoffs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as “dangerous,” and broke down in an interview with MeriTalk how the job cuts impact technology and safety-related positions. […]

A Federal court judge on Feb. 20 blocked a request from five Federal employee unions for a temporary restraining order (TRO) challenging the Trump administration’s reduction-in-force executive orders and “deferred resignation” program. […]

House Oversight and Reform Committee ranking member Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is pressing the Trump administration to declare who actually runs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after the White House said that Elon Musk – who is intimately associated with the effort – doesn’t work under the new agency.   […]

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering expanding a ban on preventing all foreign-born nationals from adversarial nations from working in the Department of Energy’s (DoE) 17 national labs, citing risks of espionage.   […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed in a video on Thursday that the Department of Defense (DoD) is reevaluating its probationary workforce and plans to dismiss “redundant” positions and “underperformers.” […]

The Senate voted on Thursday by a margin of 51 to 49 to confirm President Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel to become the next director of the FBI. […]

Thousands more Federal employees have been fired over the past week, with almost 7,000 employees at the IRS losing their jobs amid tax filing season. […]

 Ron Ross, a computer scientist and fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is retiring from government service, an official from NIST confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is gearing up to cut $50 billion over the next five years from its current budget lines in order to shift funding to “higher priority defense projects” that would align with President Donald Trump’s “achieve peace through strength” mandate. […]

The Department of Transportation (DoT) has named Pavan Pidugu as its new chief information officer (CIO), according to the agency’s website. […]

A group of probationary Federal employees who were fired by the Trump administration have brought a class-wide complaint before the Office of Special Counsel, an independent Federal agency that investigates allegations of prohibited personnel practices. […]

Democratic members of the Senate Appropriations Committee have asked the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for more information on what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing at the agency after reports that DOGE has been granted access to veterans’ personal records.  […]

President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) late on Feb. 19 that focuses the administration on finding ways to cut from the Federal government’s “non-statutory” activities – or those not specifically described in laws approved by Congress – along with a host of other functions that the administration considers to be detrimental to the country.   […]

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Labor, promised at a Senate nomination hearing on Feb. 19 to take a “deeper look” into how the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is approaching the agency and impacting its workforce. […]

As Federal agencies grapple with increasingly complex IT environments, AI Ops – which applies AI to automate IT operations – is a growing approach for organizations to identify and resolve system problems faster, experts from GDIT and ServiceNow said in a recent conversation. […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has added 37 new systems to its list of military-approved commercial drone capabilities, pending final approval to meet congressionally mandated cybersecurity and supply chain standards. […]

The Federal government and industry may see more innovation in emerging technologies with friendlier policies from the Trump administration, but misguided leadership could end up stifling progress, said Consumer Technology Association CEO Gary Shapiro.   […]

A Federal judge on Tuesday temporarily reinstated the chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) who was fired by President Donald Trump. […]

Katie Arrington, who spearheaded the Defense’s Department’s (DoD) initial efforts to create its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program for defense contractors beginning in 2019, is returning to the Pentagon as the agency’s chief information security officer (CISO). […]

Paul Lawrence – President Trump’s nominee to serve as deputy secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – pledged to lawmakers today that, if confirmed, he will work to get the VA’s Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program “back on track.” […]

A Federal judge late Tuesday denied a request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from sniffing around data systems at seven Federal agencies. […]

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a new report on Feb. 14 that highlights potential use cases of digital twin technologies and recommends adopting a zero trust cybersecurity model when engaging in digital twin development. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced two new class deviations to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) today to comply with executive orders that President Trump has issued since taking office on Jan. 20. […]

Former Federal agency inspectors general (IGs) who were fired by President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit to get their jobs back, claiming that the Trump administration violated Federal law in getting rid of them. […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is looking to industry for input on how its collaborative low-Earth orbit mega-constellation – known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) – could be integrated into President Donald Trump’s “Iron Dome for America” missile defense system. […]

A Federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the Trump administration on Monday, allowing the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to continue accessing student data at the Department of Education. […]

A group of House Republicans has established a data privacy working group that aims to develop a comprehensive national data privacy standard, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Feb. 12.  […]

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is fishing for tips from the public on Federal agency “waste, fraud, and abuse,” according to a social media post the organization made on Feb. 16. […]

Getting the very latest look at Federal government AI policy direction – plus taking an early swing at St. Paddy’s Day celebrating – are just two of the great reasons to circle March 13 on your calendar and RSVP for MeriTalk’s Tech Tonic at Morton’s the Steakhouse in Washington D.C. […]

Although the exact number of Federal employees who have been – or will be – affected by widespread layoffs instituted the Trump administration is not immediately clear, recent reports suggest the current number of cuts tops 12,000. […]