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Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Tech Force Director Kevin Hennecken told an audience at a Alliance for Digital Innovation event on Capitol Hill on May 27, 2026, that the tech hiring program is currently onboarding. (Madison Alder/FedScoop)

Tech Force director says roughly 200 have been hired through the program

The tech talent hiring program began onboarding over the past couple of weeks and anticipates its first management-level hire from industry to start soon.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., questions Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on April 29, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House bill would enlist OPM in federal biotech workforce assessment

The bipartisan legislation from Reps. Ro Khanna and Rich McCormick directs the personnel agency to coordinate an agency-wide push on boosting U.S. biotech efforts.
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Federal employees rally in support of their jobs outside of the Kluczynski Federal Building on March 19, 2025, in Chicago. The rally was organized by the National Treasury Employees Union to voice concerns about the mass firing of federal workers by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Federal union projects to lose ‘tens of thousands’ of members, court filing shows

The National Treasury Employees Union said a Trump order and OPM rule on collective bargaining has caused irreparable harm. An appeals court judge previously said those harms…
Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

House Democrats want OPM, OMB to halt plans to collect federal worker health data

A coalition of lawmakers said the Trump administration’s plans to require insurers to hand over federal worker data could put those employees in jeopardy.
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