And, Post-shutdown, questions swirl about Pentagon’s plans to issue missed paychecks

Issues in VA’s modernization push delay payments for thousands of students.

Dawn Zimmer takes over as permanent Energy CIO.

And, a bipartisan Senate bill calls for agencies to report AI-related job cuts.

DOE announces $625 million to continue quantum research centers

All five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers were renewed for five more years.

The agency is taking note of the growing number of cloud services providers cleared at the FedRAMP High level.

Anduril conducts first flight test of Air Force CCA drone prototype

The White House registers the domain ‘techforce.gov.’

Also: how use of Perplexity and ChatGPT caused error-ridden orders for federal courts.