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• Some former federal employees are still struggling to find the right fit

• Don’t let 5% become your TSP retirement strategy

• Union demands federal prison leaders be held in contempt after agency ‘openly defies’ court order

• Social Security ends flexible work schedules, teeing up clash with union

• Using holiday lights to inform hurricane recovery? Award honors ‘seemingly odd’ federally funded research that brings about groundbreaking discoveries

• What happens when the State Department loses its institutional memory?

• Bureau of Prisons is the latest agency ordered to reinstate union rights

• GSA still has problems with location data for federal properties, watchdog finds

• FBI removes Accenture contractor after missed security patch led to breach

• TSA took away its officers’ chairs. The union isn’t sitting quietly

• Appeals court seemingly OKs VA’s contested union contract expiration

• Cut first, measure later: Watchdogs find problems across foreign affairs agency reorganizations

• US spy chief tapped as White House AI czar

• Transportation works to ease fears about its new AI air traffic control tool

• State Department appeals board, now with limited authority, gains new members

• Housing finance agency chief moves to slash watchdog’s budget, leading Democrats to demand his resignation

• Federal employees’ health insurance premiums to rise by double digits for third straight year

• GSA memo to set AI-specific acquisition rules

• Tax chief pushes 'AI-first IRS' to get more out of agency's workforce

• TSP funds were back in the negative in September

• Retiring in 2027? Picking the right date could pay off

• Pentagon update on National Defense Strategy cites progress, omits key threats