Sen. Mark Warner urged OPM’s acting director to ensure identity protection services continue for the more than 21 million individuals affected by the 2015 breach.

An order from U.S. Judge Susan Illston temporarily paused actions to reduce the federal workforce.

The workforce agency terminated the $342,200 contract roughly a week after it was awarded.

The antiquated paper-based federal retirement system has been a target for federal modernization for years and was called out by Elon Musk.

Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told Senate lawmakers that the watchdog is examining what the group has done with data in Treasury, Social Security and OPM networks.

Ex-CIOs agreed that political appointees can be valuable changemakers, but some cautioned against a blanket policy, politicization of the role.

Scott Kupor pledged to do a full review of OPM practices on data privacy and data protection.

“The complaint adequately pleads that the DOGE Defendants ‘plainly and openly crosses a congressionally drawn line in the sand,'" the judge wrote.

The emergency application seeks a stay to an injunction ordering the reinstatement of “over 16,000 probationary employees” who were fired.

Counsel for the plaintiffs in the case flagged Monday that an attorney who played a role in efforts to shutter the U.S. African Development Foundation is also…