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• Air traffic controllers are still waiting on 2.8% of their congressionally approved pay raise

• CDC, after months of delays, gives employees 20 days to resubmit disability accommodation documentation

• NSA looks to AI to help analysts sift through vast data troves

• Musk should testify about overstated savings from DHS contract cancellations, Democrats argue

• FEMA’s future looks clearer. Disaster aid is still uncertain

• USDA employees dispute ‘inflated’ claim that most staff asked to relocate will do so 

• Former pardon atty calls MSPB ‘a dead end,’ sues for reinstatement

• Reliable rules for your retirement recordkeeping

• Former CISA employee pleads guilty to defrauding government with secret contractor jobs

• Inspectors general are facing an identity crisis. Here’s how some former IGs would preserve the watchdogs’ independence

• OPM taps new healthcare and insurance chief ahead of Open Season 

• The National Science Foundation is building out the government’s AI research infrastructure

• Scammers are making the government harder to trust

• Inspector general fired by Trump talks leadership, OIG independence and his new memoir

• TSP funds were back in the black in August

• Shutdown threat possibly lifted as House passes stopgap spending bill

• Nearly 3,150 Labor employees seeking disability accommodations impacted by data leak, internal memo says

• Trump’s 2027 pay freeze has unions warning of recruitment, retention problems

• Federal disability employment program faced widespread compliance problems, whistleblower investigation finds

• ‘Not our decision,’ USPS chief says, as agency faces mail-in voting lawsuits and a looming cash crisis once more

• Why a smaller government isn't automatically better

• Here’s what Trump’s new ‘Space Academy’ could mean for the US military

• National Archives says agencies’ AI use does not automatically create federal records