Kamala Harris

White House sets ‘binding requirements’ for agencies to vet AI tools before using them

The Biden administration is calling on federal agencies to step up their use of artificial intelligence tools, but keep risks in check

Artificial Intelligence

White House presses agencies to use apprenticeships for skills-based hiring

Workforce

Decade of pay stagnation continues for VP, senior political appointees

Federal Newscast

White House touts ‘significant results’ of task force after 80,000 feds opt to join a union

Unions

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Close up of female hands counting US dollar banknotes at the table in front a laptop computer. Woman accountant with money and notebook.

Congress upholds pay freeze for political appointees, vice president through end of 2022

Pay

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Under new Biden initiative, agencies will do more to educate employees about collective bargaining

Unions

Combined Federal Campaign

With donations rebounding during pandemic, CFC ready to build on last year’s successes

Workforce

Biden administration wants government to be standard bearer for union relations

Federal Newscast

Securing the inauguration from a continuity of government standpoint

People

Capitol has to get back to business

Congress

Senate Democrats want hearing on how agencies have responded to the coronavirus pandemic

Federal Newscast

U.S. troops gather on the USS Wasp where U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver Memorial Day remarks to the troops, at the U.S. Military Base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, May 28, 2019.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Senate passes NDAA, includes pay raise for troops

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Senate passes its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a 3.1% pay raise for active duty military.

Federal Newscast

These four amendments snuck into the Senate defense authorization bill

Ninety three amendments were just packed into the Senate version of the 2020 defense authorization bill.

Congress

FILE- In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, Residents of a lakeside neighborhood walk across Overcreek Bridge by the remains of a failed dam in Columbia, S.C. Officials say the structure beneath a road collapsed Monday afternoon following days of heavy rain, nearly emptying a lake in a few minutes. No one was injured. South Carolina had problems with crumbling roads and bridges and old drinking water systems and dams long before the historic floods of the past week. Now the state faces what will likely be hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of bills to fix washed out roads and bridges and destroyed dams. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

Infrastructure stakeholders want better agency communication, no sunset from FAST Act reforms

Congress

Federal infrastructure projects have stalled around the country due to cumbersome permitting processes and funding challenges, which is why a bipartisan law was enacted two years ago to speed things up. Now the authors are hoping to amend that legislation with the Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act.