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The IRS workforce is in the news again. Now the agency says it expects to keep growing its staff through at least 2029. The agency is counting on billions of dollars from its multi-year modernization fund to make pay for the people. And, its asking Congress for more money to sustain this level of staffing for the long term. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman joined the Federal Drive with more. 

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The Defense Department, once again, dominated the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition. The competition is run by the Cybersecurityt and Infrastructure Security Agency. Service members from the Army and Marines Corps and a team of DoD experts won the individual and team competitions at this 5th annual event. Now civilian agencies are starting to close the gap. For more on the results of the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition, Federal News Network's Jason Miller got the lowdown from the CISA's section chief for the President's Cup, Michael Harpin.

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With nearly 500,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs across the country, the Biden administration is throwing down the gauntlet on skills-based hiring.

White House officials just committed to using skills-based hiring for most federal IT jobs. The Office of Personnel Management is leading the effort to transition nearly 100,000 federal cyber and IT jobs to skills-based hiring by next summer. The Energy Department is leading a corresponding initiative to move federal IT contracts to skills-based hiring.

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It is that most magical time of the year. Appropriations arriving six months late for the current fiscal year and Congress futzing over next year's budget, which will also arrive late. For an expert's take on what contractors need to do, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.

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The University of Maryland has launched of a new institute dedicated to developing the next generation of artificial intelligence people. The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute will support research focusing on responsible and ethical AI across industry and government. For details, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the institute's director, Professor Hal Daume.

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The Navy runs on ships and people. They need fuel, ammo, food and tons of other stuff. Now ships are on duty around the world, while some are on heightened alert because of the world situation. It all highlights the importance of supplies and the supply chain. For an update, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the Vice Commander and Executive Director of the Naval Supply Systems Command, Kurt Wendelken.

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Tony Boese likes to tell a story that epitomizes the reason why ASPIRE, an emerging initiative focused on training federal employees, is both a passion project and an opportunity to close long-standing gaps in workforce development.

Boese, the research programs manager and associate researcher in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Artificial Intelligence Institute, highlights the training saga of one person who had to take basically the same statistics course six different times.

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Most National Guard professionals performing space missions would retrain or retire rather than join the Space Force, the Air National Guard internal survey shows.

As the Air Force senior leaders continue to defend a legislative proposal to move all space units within the National Guard to the Space Force, up to 86% of all Guard space personnel say they will stay in the National Guard and retrain instead of switching over to an active service branch.

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The debate continues in Congress surrounding one of the nation's busiest airports. D.C.-area lawmakers want to nix an attempt to add flights to Reagan National Airport. Hanging in the balance is a re-authorization for the Federal Aviation Administration. To get the latest, Federal News Network's Eric White talked with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchel Miller.

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