@Federal_IT

Writer of words. Also, editor of words. And other stuff good with words. Now @Granicus — Life-long nerd and proud of it

 Washington, D.C.
Joined October 2014
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Picking clips for my resume and I've had some bangers over the years Gonna run through some of these in chronological order in a slow thread ... for posterity (and because they won't all fit on my one-pager)
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What I noticed with Trump's new push to improve the government's design: 1. It includes a hiring spree, after the WH laid off many designers from the govt's tech hubs 2. The push has some similarities to DOGE, including that it can take on volunteers shorturl.at/WyB9E

Trump signs order calling for improved government design

The new “America by Design” effort includes a recruiting push for relevant talent — though the administration has shed many government designers since Trump took office.

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NEWS: OPM has officially canceled this year’s governmentwide survey that tracks federal employees' workplace satisfaction scores. Latest from @dfriedmanWFED: federalnewsnetwork.com/workf…
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Tom Warren
@tomwarren10 Aug 2025
end of an era. AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet next month
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Got my hands on an internal IRS report on how Direct File went this season. TLDR: pretty well. 94% of users said their experience was excellent or above average. That said, the IRS is reportedly killing the free tax filing service. nextgov.com/digital-governme…

Direct File is 'beloved by its users,' internal IRS report says

The IRS is reportedly ending the Direct File, but a report obtained via the Freedom of Information Act says that 94% of users rated their experience as “excellent” or “above average.”

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This is super niche but it's my niche
The Lord of the Rings@tolkienarchives18 May 2025
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New with @ddimolfetta: DOGE has been trying to put a team inside of Congress' watchdog, the Government Accountability Office 👀 nextgov.com/digital-governme…

Legislative watchdog rebuffs DOGE efforts to install on-site team

“DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., the ranking...

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Notes on today's beta release of a chatbot for junior congressional staffers... 🧵
POPVOX Foundation@popvoxfdn28 Apr 2025
Introducing StaffLink: an AI assistant for junior Congressional staff to help them navigate everything from vote bells to constituent calls, created by @popvoxfdn & @popvox using @MSA_CapHill’s excellent resources Learn more: popvox.org/blog/stafflink
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GSA technologists are the latest targets of widespread layoffs at the agency. Technology Transformation Services employees are getting Reduction in Force notices today. GSA leaders said in March that 50% staffing cuts were coming to TTS. Story TK
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OK people. We're on Day 3 of Signalgate, which means we need to unite as a nation and come up with something better than Signalgate. As a public service, I will provide alternatives. If anyone comes up with anything more clever, I will claim it as my own. You've been warned
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Some of the issues: * Signal isn't an approved govt platform for classified info (anyone remember Hillary's emails?) * Signal's disappearing-messages feature was enabled (apparent violation of federal records laws) * Including a journalist in the group constitutes leaking
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Curious if this is different from OSCAL or a ramp-up
David DiMolfetta@ddimolfetta20 Mar 2025
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The new “FedRAMP 2025” model aims to transition the program’s approval processes from manual compliance to automated security validations. Much of the approval work could fall on the private sector to oversee, I’m told: nextgov.com/modernization/20…

FedRAMP to announce major overhaul next week

The initiative would seek to automate much of the cloud security program’s approval workflow and shift more control to the private sector.

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If you want to control the federal government, centralize power at GSA and OPM. It's all about procurement and workforce nextgov.com/acquisition/2025…

GSA to ‘quadruple' in size to centralize procurement across the government

The head of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service told employees at a Thursday meeting that the agency will “do about $400 billion” in procurement management under this effort.

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WIRED
@WIRED18 Mar 2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @FreedomofPress. freedom.press/issues/wired-i…

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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A former Tesla engineer who already is in charge of a tech shop at the General Services Administration is now also in charge of the Labor Department's technology. nextgov.com/people/2025/03/t…

TTS director tapped to serve as Labor CIO

Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, will continue to lead the Technology Transformation Services, a General Services Administration spokesperson confirmed.

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Elon Musk says that he wants to fix the government's old tech, but so far the Trump admin has fired or laid off many tech feds that could help. The latest: 90 or so feds in 18f, a tech group at GSA, got an email they'd been laid off last night at 1am. nextgov.com/people/2025/03/g…

GSA eliminates 18F

The latest workforce action at the General Services Administration includes the elimination of an entire tech team of around 90 employees.

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Nextgov/FCW@NextgovFCW25 Feb 2025
Lawmakers want VA to nail down total EHR modernization cost buff.ly/41w7UHB
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Eric Katz@EricM_Katz21 Feb 2025
Defense Department employees are being told to expect their mass firing notices as soon as Friday morning, with @MeghannMyers_ and @audrey_decker9 govexec.com/workforce/2025/0…

As Defense preps for mass firings, Hegseth says a hiring freeze and more firings are coming

SecDef says a "reevaluation of our probationary workforce" will be followed by a wider dismissal of "redundancies" and "underperformers."

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Reminder: the largest reliably factored number by a quantum computer is (still) 21. Any Quantum Computing announcement that doesn’t produce replicable execution of Shor’s algorithm can be safely ignored.
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New from @EricM_Katz & @AlmsNatalie - IRS expected to fire 6,700 employees tomorrow, in the thick of tax season More: govexec.com/workforce/2025/0… via @GovExec

IRS expected to fire 6,700 employees beginning Thursday

The terminations will walk back much of the progress IRS, which is in the midst of tax season, has made in recent years to increase its workforce.

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Building on @jason_koebler's reporting here: this isn't the only system that the Musk ally in question has asked for access to. nextgov.com/digital-governme…

Longtime GSA employee quits rather than give Musk ally access to Notify.gov

The leader of the Technology Transformation Services at GSA wanted access to a text messaging platform for government agencies.

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