Defense
Acting Navy Secretary Quits After Slamming Fired CO to Carrier Crew
Thomas Modly flew to Guam on Monday, made a 15-minute speech aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt, and spent the rest of the day trying to wriggle out of trouble.
Nextgov
White House Expands Coronavirus-Focused Supercomputing Consortium
Officials are putting high-performance computing resources to work across the country to help combat COVID-19.
Management
Administrative Law Judge Association Says Effort to Force Partial Contract Is 'Union Busting'
Officials with the group said efforts to implement part of a new union contract while elements remain under review by the Federal Service Impasses Panel are illegal.
Route Fifty
Black Americans Face Higher Rates of Coronavirus Infection
Citing initial reports that show a disproportionate impact on African Americans, lawmakers from across the country say more health departments and states need to publish race data on cases.
Route Fifty
Study: Air Pollution Increases Risk of Death from Coronavirus
The study by researchers at Harvard University's public health school is the first nationwide research to find a link between high rates of air pollution and higher rates of death from the novel coronavirus.
Workforce
VA Looks to Boost Hiring to Confront Coronavirus as Employees Decry Shortfalls
Medical staff only able to provide "subpar care" to patients under current circumstances, one nurse says.
Oversight
Trump Removes Acting Pentagon IG Slated to Lead Pandemic Oversight
Only current IGs may serve in the new position created by Congress to oversee the government's coronavirus relief effort.
Employee Policy
Agencies' pandemic response risks workers' health, union chief says
AFGE President Everett Kelley described multiple reports from federal employees saying that their management had ignored established agreements and instead unilaterally directed workers to work without protective equipment such as masks and gloves.
Workforce
Coronavirus Roundup: Agencies Warn of Cyber Breaches During Telework
There's a lot to keep track of. Here’s today’s list of news updates and stories you may have missed.
Workforce
The Pentagon Is Using Zoom. Is it Safe?
Experts say the ubiquitous videoconferencing tools bear some risk of accidentally exposing mundane details, and even inviting a new wave of deep fakes. But the risks can be managed.
Defense
Acting Navy Secretary Under Fire For Speech Calling Fired Captain ‘Stupid’
Capt. Brett Crozier, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), addresses the crew Jan. 17, 2020. The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific.
Insights
Keeping an Eye on the Clouds: A Conversation with Federal IT Experts on Cloud Validation
How do federal agencies know how their cloud is performing? To learn more about cloud performance evaluation in the federal government, Government Business Council (GBC) interviewed top federal IT experts.
Insights
Making Many Work: Effectively Approaching a Multi-Cloud Strategy
How are agencies faring with multi-cloud to satisfy compliance, governance, and data management standards? Government Business Council (GBC) conducted thorough research to raise visibility on the issue.
Employee Policy
High court supports feds in age discrimination actions
Federal employees 40 and above are entitled to process "untainted by age consideration."
Oversight
How OSHA Has Failed to Protect America’s Workers From COVID-19
Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases were put on ice in President Donald Trump’s first year in office.
Oversight
GovExec Daily: Oversight of the Stimulus Plan
IBM Center for the Business of Government Senior Fellow John Kamensky joins the podcast to discuss the accountability provisions in the CARES Act
Route Fifty
Bruises from Coronavirus Begin to Show on State Budgets
Recent days have seen spending reductions and downbeat revenue forecasts.
Management
Viewpoint: This Is What Happens When the Federal Government Abandons You
Local officials and health-care workers are losing faith in the national response, and struggling to improvise their own solutions.
Nextgov
Mid-Pandemic, CDC Looks to Upgrade Its Biosurveillance Database
The system collects data from hospitals, local public health departments, pharmacies and more to give researchers and officials a view of how diseases spread across the country.
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