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20 hours ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Justin Doubleday

The Trump administration is backing a plan to increase homeland security spending by $67 billion over the next decade, including $6.2 billion to ramp up hiring at Customs and Border Protection. But the Congressional Budget Office projects “considerable uncertainty” around CBP’s ability to meet the hiring targets funded under the House Homeland Security Committee’s proposal for the 2025 budget reconciliation package.

1 day ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Justin Doubleday

Agencies are being encouraged to consider post-quantum cryptographic standards in the acquisition process, as part of a multiyear push to secure sensitive data from exploitation. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Office of the National Cyber Director, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Security Agency are leading post-quantum cryptographic efforts.

2 days ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Jason Miller

The second group of “consulting contractors” are coming under the General Services Administration’s microscope. A new set of 10 vendors have until Friday to submit data, analysis and options for potential savings of their existing consulting contracts to GSA and agency customers for review. The 10 vendors are:ASGN IncorporatedChemonics InternationalFCN Inc.

2 days ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Jason Miller

The General Services Administration celebrated its OneGov Strategy like most new government initiatives with all the pomp and circumstance of a press release and a blog post. What was missing, of course, is the actual strategy document itself. No link in the press release. No link in the blog post. Both the press release and blog post just included celebratory, yet general, platitudinal sentences about how GSA will oversee changes to make the government buy as an enterprise.

5 days ago | federalnewsnetwork.com | Justin Doubleday

Seven years into “Trusted Workforce 2.0,” agencies and contractors have seen some positive changes, but are lukewarm on whether the effort is delivering substantial reform. That’s the upshot from a new Government Accountability Office report released Friday. GAO evaluates the implementation of Trusted Workforce 2.0 by surveying 45 departments and agencies, as well as 626 federal contractors.