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The big Navy project called Flank Speed met all but one of its 152 requirements for zero trust cybersecurity, last fall. Flank Speed the Navy's name for its Microsoft 365 platform, traffics lots of Navy systems and data. For how Flank Speed supports Navy modernization, Federal News Network's Jason Miller caught up with the Acting Program Executive Officer Louis Coplin.

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If you got the deferred resignation program email, well, listen up. Don't expect what the Trump administration calls a nice vacation. In fact, legal experts urge federal workers to exercise deep caution. They're telling you to consult with human resources and benefits people and even your own legal counsel and financial advisors before making a decision. Federal News networks, Anastasia Obis has some more on this.

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Stop us if you've heard this already, like five seconds ago. The Trump administration has given federal employees an ultimatum, resign now and go on paid administrative leave or stay and risk a non voluntary reduction in force. A Federal News Network poll finds, though, not many employees plan to take the deal. Among their concerns, they say OPM hasn't provided all the answers to their questions. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman conducted the survey, and

he brings us the latest.

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With net neutrality A recent U.S. appeals court decision ended the idea of net neutrality. It said the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to regulate internet service and broadband providers. The incoming F-C-C chair, Brendan Carr, was already planning to undo Biden administration rules *for* net neutrality favored by the outgoing F-C-C chair. For what the broadband industry hopes for next, we turn to the president and C-E-O of the trade group U.S. Telecom, Jonathan Spalter.

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Federal employee associations and unions are uniformly up in arms over the resignation request that went from the Trump administration to every federal employee. Among them the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees, NARFE. For what it's advising people to do NARFE vice president John Hatton.

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Federal employees nationwide have been mulling the offer from the White House to resign but stay on the job for the next 8 months. For the legalities of this offer, we turn to federal employment attorney Danny Rosenthal of James and Hoffman.

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The Office of Personnel Management, the Trump administration that is, has told Feds they can take a deferred resignation and go on administrative leave until September. The OPM offer is raising legal questions, though federal employment attorneys say that whatever it is, it's a novel approach to reduce the federal workforce. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me now.

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A study late in the last administration concluded that using federal land to build windmills and lay out solar panels could generate a lot of electricity. Thousands of gigawatts. With how they developed the estimates, we turn to a senior energy analyst with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Trieu Mai.

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The Coast Guard has suspended its anti harassment policy to conduct a 90 day review of that document. The brass caution that while the policy for harassing behavior might be suspended, harassment itself, that's still prohibited. Federal News networks, Anastasia Obis has more.

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