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US politics
fromNextgov.com
15 hours ago

Bipartisan lawmakers worried about shaky progress on modernized government worker background check system

The National Background Investigation Services system for federal employee vetting faces a decade-long delay until fiscal 2028, costing $2.4 billion with $2.2 billion more needed, impacting national security and government contractors.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 week ago

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity near approval to host AI directly for the U.S. government (exclusive)

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity are close to approval to sell AI hosted on their own clouds directly to the government at a low-impact pilot level.
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

They were living paycheck to paycheck. Then the checks stopped coming.

The federal government shutdown has become the Grinch who stole Halloween for Johnny Jones. Halloween is typically a big deal for the Jones family - they love to decorate, hand out candy and hot dogs, and enjoy a neighborhood shindig. But Jones, who works for the Transportation Security Administration, isn't getting a paycheck during the shutdown. That means big Halloween plans are out of the budget; so is an outing for his daughter and her friends to the new Taylor Swift movie.
US politics
US politics
fromFortune
8 months ago

Job openings among the largest U.S. federal contractors have plummeted at 25x the rate of all other jobs amid DOGE cuts, report finds

Job openings for major government contractors have dropped 15%, contrasting with the overall job listings stability.
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