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Federal Contracting News

• Airport workers got security badges before TSA completed background checks, watchdog finds

• Tough choices, uncertainty, and scrutiny may lie ahead for defense contractors

• Planning behind USDA employee relocations ‘unknown,’ after agency chief rebuffs watchdog’s review 

• GSA brings back daily work reports, with threat of disciplinary action

• State Department's push to cancel hundreds of contracts left behind a trail of mistakes, watchdog finds

• Walkinshaw to push for federal pay raise in lame duck spending talks

• USDA’s request to lift stay on employee relocations denied by federal judge 

• Justice Department creates new task force to police AI misuse

• HHS employees face another painful loss amid a year of workplace trauma

• Make these health coverage decisions before you retire

• These award-winning feds want to advance science for the public good — and challenge stereotypes about government work

• Here’s how the Trump administration may face pushback from a Democrat-controlled Congress 

• A Democratic Congress could derail major Pentagon plans and put Hegseth under pressure

• Post-midterms, federal unions push for pay raise, restoration of bargaining rights

• GSA names new acquisition chief after months with acting leader

• IRS workforce issues prominent among watchdog’s FY27 priorities 

• Trump’s federal workforce overhaul faces a new Congress after Democratic wins

• OPM formally ends FEVS in favor of agency-specific surveys

• ‘Exit survey’ of former feds finds fears of civil service politicization under Trump — and many willing to return to their agencies

• USDA asks judge to lift employee relocation stay that ‘significantly hinders’ its operations

• Companies warn cyber threat sharing could suffer without new legal protections

• Most TSP funds decline again in October

• Musk is the target of a new Democratic bill to curtail political donations from federal contractors