Office of Personnel Management

And you do see a lot of like, the government's top experts being poached by the industry.

At the same time, you have the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Cooper, trying to hire those 1,000 people, those 1,000 tech experts by the end of the year.

Last time I checked in with him, he has about 330-ish.

If he gets to 500 by the end of the year, that's a success in his book.

Right.

But internally, it means the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, essentially stops functioning completely.

The background investigators who process the security clearances furloughed.

Yeah, sent home.

The groups also maintained that insurers have failed to participate in the process or submit unreasonably low offers.

In May 2026, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury and the Office of Personnel Management finalized updated standards for the IDR process in an effort to improve the process.

The final rule was effective August 3rd, although some portions have varying applicability dates.

A CMS fact sheet said that the final rules would, quote, improve the functioning of the federal IDR process by streamlining communication between payers, providers, and certified IDR entities and clarifying timelines and process, unquote.

And then also, if you think about, too, from a geostrategic perspective, and this is where I'm going to sound like my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but I swear it's not.

Think about how much data China already has from TikTok and the social graph, from all of the data breaches and data leaks, including the OPM hack, 23andMe, these other sort of like ways that you can get these very large data sets.

And then all of a sudden, everything just becomes a big data project.

So having physical access to data centers in China means that your information is probably not as secure as you think it is.

More details are emerging on the Trump administration's revisions to paid administrative leave, agencies' ability to pay employees not to work during workforce reduction efforts, has been formalized.

Paid leave will also be allowed during reduction in forced notice periods, the Office of Personnel Management says.

OPM's latest guidance comes after it finalized regulations to conform with the rules for the Deferred Resignation Program.

OPM is expected to soon update other online resources to reflect the new regulations.

The White House is following a court's order when it comes to reduction in force policies.

Federal News Network's Jason Miller tells us more.

The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management have formally rescinded two memos calling for reductions in force during shutdowns.

The Trump administration agreed to terminate the two memos as part of its settlement in September to end a lawsuit by a coalition of federal employee unions, including AFGE, NFFE, and NTU.

More details are emerging on the Trump administration's revisions to paid administrative leave, agencies' ability to pay employees not to work during workforce reduction efforts, has been formalized.

Paid leave will also be allowed during reduction in forced notice periods, the Office of Personnel Management says.

OPM's latest guidance comes after it finalized regulations to conform with the rules for the Deferred Resignation Program.

OPM is expected to soon update other online resources to reflect the new regulations.

The White House is following a court's order when it comes to reduction in force policies.

Federal News Network's Jason Miller tells us more.

The Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management have formally rescinded two memos calling for reductions in force during shutdowns.

The Trump administration agreed to terminate the two memos as part of its settlement in September to end a lawsuit by a coalition of federal employee unions, including AFGE, NFFE, and NTU.

What does that mean? Well, it probably means they're doing some special work on the F-35s.

Or we know for a fact China hacked the Office of Personnel Management, OPM, in Washington, D.C. in 2019.

Wow.

they were able to exfiltrate all the background information on every current and former federal employee and federal contractor.