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1 week ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale
Interview transcript:Terry Gerton: You’ve got some exciting news. You’re starting a new credential, Certified Defense Financial Manager Health Care. Why now? Rich Brady: Well, thank you, great question. This actually goes back about two or three years. When I first came to the Society of Defense Financial Management, we started looking at our certification program and wanting to build it out. We’ve got the core certification, the CDFM, and we have the acquisition specialty, the CDFM-A.
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1 month ago | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale
Interview transcript:Terry Gerton: Well, let’s jump right in because we’re talking about some interesting trends in recent market performance. What’s jumped out at you, especially in terms of both domestic and international fund performance as we’ve seen the market be so volatile over the last few months? Art Stein: Yeah, there have been two changes that really stand out to me with the TSP funds.
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale
After a strong start in January, the Thrift Savings Plan saw month-over-month declines across all funds in February, with the Common Stock Index C fund and the Small Cap Stock Index Investment S fund posting the highest negative returns. The S fund posted the largest negative return with -5.80%, while the C fund followed up with -1.30% return in February. The rest of TSP funds achieved positive returns last month though almost all were lower compared to January.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
Federal employees across the country, many of whom have worked from home since the COVID-19 pandemic, were back at agency offices Monday under President Donald Trump’s return-to-office mandate. Billionaire Elon Musk, who is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency scouring government agencies for suspected waste, delivered a warning Monday to workers on his platform X. “Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave,” Musk wrote.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jared Serbu |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman
The Office of Special Counsel believes at least some federal employees who were caught up in waves of mass removals during their probationary periods were fired unlawfully, and is asking the board that adjudicated federal employment disputes to put their terminations on hold, officials said Monday.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Tom Temin |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman
One of the most difficult debates right now is whether the new career civil servant classification is a good thing or a bad thing. It’s called “policy/career,” a new name for Schedule F. The Trump administration has willed it into being with an executive order. Longtime government accountability watcher Joe Spielberger, of the Project on Government Oversight, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to make the case against this classification.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
The Office of Personnel Management is giving agencies a brighter green light to make their chief information officers political appointees. OPM is telling agencies they can reclassify these senior executive service (SES) roles to general instead of career reserve. The new policy is asking agencies to send their reclassifications to OPM by Feb. 14. One key part of the memo is OPM is only “recommending” and not mandating this change.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Tom Temin
Foreign aid starts out as appropriated dollars. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development turn the dollars into contracts. Which means the Trump administration’s pullback on foreign assistance and its near total shutdown of US aid, mean contractors are feeling the pinch. Joining me with more, two attorneys with long federal experience. From Jenner and Block, Ian Moss and David Robbins. Interview transcript:Tom Temin And Ian, let’s start with you.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
federalnewsnetwork.com | Derace Lauderdale |Jason Miller |Jory Heckman |Justin Doubleday
Lawmakers and other officials are raising concerns that President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut the federal workforce are kneecapping recent initiatives to recruit more cyber and technology personnel into government. In a Feb.
