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Federal Contracting News

• FEMA should employ fewer staff and offer aid to fewer individuals, Trump’s council recommends

• A week of recognition, and a career of service

• ‘Highly problematic for a thousand reasons’: NIH employees criticize Trump-era requirement to scrutinize grants with words related to diversity

• Legislative proposal would eliminate contracting preferences for minority, women-owned businesses

• Education tech chief heads to OMB as deputy federal CIO

• Dems introduce bill to protect feds’ credit scores during shutdowns

• White House weighs reining in contractors’ control over how agencies use AI

• More than 3-in-4 allegations of sexual assault against federal prison staff are going unresolved

• Agencies eye agentic AI but readiness questions linger

• Agency leader says AI is helping resource-strained workforce identify more fraud

• 10 years after OPM data breach, identity protection benefits for affected feds start to expire

• How State finally got online passport renewal to stick

• Agencies delay action on Trump mail voting order amid legal fight over authority

• Growing agency talent is critical for modernization, Transportation’s IT head says

• Weighing the costs and trade-offs of suspending FEHB for Medicare Advantage

• Easing USPS handgun shipping rules will exacerbate crime, warns Democrat

• FEMA brings back employees it recently let go as it looks to 'stabilize' its workforce

• Why the next president must rebuild, not just restore, the administrative state

• IBM security executive emerges as possible contender for federal cyber agency leadership post

• TSP funds returned to growth in April

• Contracting association warns it could take DHS until the end of the year to ‘get back on track’ following record-breaking shutdown

• Workers predict significant disruptions to food assistance programs as USDA announces more relocations

• One CEO’s push to speed up how the Pentagon adopts technology