Furloughed federal employees are not guaranteed back pay after the government shutdown ends, according to a draft White House memo obtained by MeriTalk. […]
The Senate voted on Oct. 2 to approve the nomination of Kevin Rhodes to lead the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) within the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
The Trump administration has cut off funding to the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), disrupting independent oversight operations across the federal government and drawing swift bipartisan condemnation. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing $50 million toward artificial intelligence-powered research for pediatric cancer. […]
Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Greg Barbaccia said on Wednesday afternoon that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is “fully committed” to the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FedRAMP 20x revamp. […]
The White House is putting artificial intelligence at the center of America’s research agenda in a Tuesday memo detailing the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) fiscal year 2027 research and development priorities. […]
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios on Wednesday outlined the Trump administration’s five-point plan for advancing quantum technology, declaring that U.S. leadership in the field is a “national security imperative.” […]
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Michael Kratsios told lawmakers on Wednesday that building and exporting the artificial intelligence technology stack is the most important part of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan released this summer. […]
President Donald Trump submitted an alternative pay plan to Congress on Friday that would give most federal employees a 1% pay raise in 2026, while some federal law enforcement employees would receive a 3.8% pay raise. […]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that orders additional federal agencies to end their collective bargaining agreements with federal unions. […]
President Donald Trump has tapped Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee Joe Gebbia to lead the administration’s efforts to fix “digital potholes” and redesign federal websites as the government’s first-ever chief design officer. […]
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order launching the “America by Design” initiative – a sweeping effort to patch the federal government’s “digital potholes” and make its websites both easier to use and more aesthetically pleasing. […]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has restored a public database that shows how funding is apportioned to Federal agencies after a federal appeals court last week ordered the Trump administration to do so. […]
The White House said today that it is overhauling the way that Federal agencies buy products and services in an effort it says will be more cost-effective and eliminate unnecessary regulations by streamlining acquisitions. […]
Lynne Parker, the principal deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), said this week she is leaving OSTP and government service. […]
Dean Ball, who played a large role in developing the White House’s recently released AI Action Plan, announced today that he has stepped down as a senior policy advisor on AI and emerging technology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). […]
The Senate confirmed Sean Cairncross to serve as national cyber director on Saturday in a 59-35 vote, making him the third confirmed leader of the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD). […]
A coming report from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) reveals that 71 percent of Federal agencies are managing all of their records in an electronic format – meeting a deadline set by NARA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Greg Barbaccia has been appointed to the additional position of Federal chief AI officer as the Trump administration begins work executing on the ambitious agenda laid out in the AI Action Plan released by the White House on July 23. […]
Securing artificial intelligence data centers, building-up American semiconductor manufacturing, and training the workforce for an AI-centric world are among the Trump administration’s dominant priorities laid out this week in its new AI Action Plan. […]
The White House issued its AI Action Plan this week, which includes a recommendation to establish an “AI global alliance” with key allies to ensure adversaries do not get their hands on technologies that the United States is looking to impose export controls on. […]
While the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan published this week features numerous novel approaches to keep the United States in a leading position in the global AI development and deployment race, one of the most striking of those is its call to develop a commodity-like market for compute resources. […]
The Trump administration pledged Wednesday to bolster the power grid behind its new AI Action Plan, vowing to ease environmental permitting rules, boost existing supply, and accelerate electrical infrastructure development. […]
The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan seeks to ramp up artificial intelligence innovation and development while cutting “red tape and onerous regulation” in an effort to give industry a helping hand – but it’s receiving mixed reviews. […]
The White House released its long-awaited AI Action Plan today with a renewed focus on easing permitting requirements to promote faster buildouts of data centers and semiconductor manufacturing plants in the United States. […]
President Donald Trump created a new classification of Federal workers on Thursday to “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda” – the latest effort from the Trump administration to restructure the Federal government. […]
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has selected Mark Calabria as chief statistician, an OMB spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
The Trump Administration has extended its Federal government-wide hiring freeze until mid-October – just days before the hiring pause was scheduled to expire. […]
Two key Trump administration nominations for national cyber director (NCD) and the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) advanced with ease out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee earlier this week and are now headed to the full Senate for further consideration. […]
Automation, public data repositories, standardized metadata forms, and interoperable data-sharing platforms are some of the major pushes being made in guidance for Federal agencies looking to apply the Trump administration’s “gold standard science” objectives, according to guidance issued today by the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP). […]