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Federal Contracting News

• CDC hiring plan and more permanent leadership coming soon, director tells staff

• If you already have FEHB, should you sign up for Medicare B?

• DOGE’s layoffs took a toll on Black women. The effects are still being felt

• Instagram, comic books and public engagement: One watchdog’s plan to protect inspector general independence

• HHS telework rollback challenge upheld by FLRA

• ‘Last chance to stay where you are.’ USDA gives some employees facing relocation a shot at unfilled local jobs 

• ‘It’s The Price is Right’: How USCIS artificially deflated employee ratings under forced distribution mandate

• USPTO looks to AI agents to ease examiner workloads

• ICE wants AI to take on more of its legal workload

• ‘A rushed and complicated system.’ Federal employees say they’re in the dark over limited top ratings 

• Oversight of nuclear material security cut back due to civil service reductions, GAO finds

• State Department orders ‘super intelligence’ wording across all official communications

• Trump’s IG pick at the VA is ‘watering down’ oversight, some employees allege

• Union seeks new avenue to restore VA contract

• This cybersecurity agency is supposed to protect U.S. elections. Officials fear it’s been compromised by Trump

• Senator warns hundreds of federal web addresses may lack key spying protection

• Enforcement ‘surge’ from DOJ, IRS uncovers $490M in suspected tax fraud   

• Judge again orders reinstatement of Bureau of Prisons union contracts, but stops short of contempt

• VA allows union contract to expire for most employees

• USPS ‘ready to deliver’ ballots in midterms without mail-in voting EO restrictions 

• CMS hopes to quadruple provider suspensions over next 6 months, official says

• HUD’s staffing cuts hurt certain housing services, watchdog finds

• AI offers Secret Service unique mission enhancements, official says

• Federal retirees face more than a COLA change in 2027