NOAA firings spark concerns for agency’s data-centric mission
Terminations could threaten the weather and climate agency’s public safety work and make existing staffing issues worse, former workers said.
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SILVER SPRING, MD – MARCH 03: Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 03, 2025 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Last week the Trump administration fired about 800 probationary staff at NOAA, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science. The layoffs are on top of about 500 employees who left the agency after taking the so-called deferred resignation offer. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Workforce -
A Department of Homeland Security logo is seen inside a press conference room on May 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Transition DHS picks Marine, intelligence veteran as new CIO
Antoine McCord spent 18 years in a variety of cyber and national security roles, according to the agency.
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Workday’s Lynn Martin and Carl Eschenbach lead a discussion at the FedScoop Federal Forum. (FedScoop) Tech Workday eyes federal expansion amid an administration that wants ‘to do things differently’
Workday’s top executive says the company’s “massive investment” in the federal government comes amid “the perfect inflection point when the government’s saying we’ve got to do things different.”
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Elon Musk, who oversees the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wears a “Tech Support” t-shirt as he speaks during the first cabinet meeting of Trump’s second term, on Feb. 26, 2025. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) Transition DOGE must comply with expedited request to release records, judge rules
Elon Musk’s group is likely subject to federal records law, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said Monday.
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President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room flanked by Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank, Larry Ellison, executive charmain of Oracle, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AI Agency AI use case inventories must stay, groups tell Trump officials
A letter signed by 18 civil society organizations implores the OMB and OSTP heads to make sure agencies continue to maintain and update their AI inventories.
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Former Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., nominee to be the next deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Policy OMB deputy director nominee defends Elon Musk, DOGE’s ‘outstanding effort’
Former Rep. Dan Bishop’s defense of the tech billionaire’s government cuts comes as House Democrats open an inquiry into DOGE “attacks on federal employees.”
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The General Services Administration headquarters in April 2012. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Modernization GSA introduces Space Match to help employees find agency workspace
The online form to find office space for employees returning to in-person work comes as the Trump administration aims to downsize the government’s real estate portfolio.
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U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly speaks at a press conference outside of USAID headquarters on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) Transition Rep. Connolly demands OPM rescind guidance opening CIOs to possible politicization
Connolly calls the memo “an attack on the civil service,” urging OPM to revoke the guidance immediately.
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Transition Trump order limits agency hiring, puts DOGE leads in decision-making roles; the State Department loses its top data and AI official
The new executive order looks to minimize agency hiring allowances, requiring four workers to depart for every one hire to be made. And, Matthew Graviss is leaving his role as State Department’s Chief Data and AI Officer.
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Elon Musk puts his son on his shoulders as he joins President Donald Trump for an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) “workforce optimization initiative.” (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Workforce Trump order limits agency hiring, puts DOGE leads in decision-making roles
The executive order continues the president’s push to slash the federal workforce, with sweeping actions that include large-scale RIFs.