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House GOP pushes bill to fast-track firing at VA. Agency leaders doubt it’ll help

Top Republicans on the House Veterans Affairs Committee are leading a bill to let the Department of Veterans Affairs once again fire employees more quickly.
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OMG Approves NIST-aided Complex Systems Modeling Upgrade for Public Review

The standards development organization, Object Management Group (OMG), recently began seeking public comments on a major upgrade to its Systems Modeling Language (SysML), which is widely used to specify requirements, design, and testing of complex
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PC shipments show signs of recovery as economic outlook improves

Enterprise demand for workstations and laptops bounced back in Q2 and may normalize by the end of the year, according to Gartner analysis.
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House GOP VA Committee members look to make firing of poor-performing VA employees easier

In today’s Federal Newscast: House Republicans are looking to make it easier to fire VA employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) abortion views lead to unfilled officer slots in the U.S. military. And the State Department looks to bring back retired diplomats.
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This National Science Foundation grant will help forecasters see inside clouds

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a 90-plus million grant with the purpose of improving understanding of weather.
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Joint Chiefs nominee wins over lawmakers but faces uncertain fate because of senator’s hold

President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as America’s top military officer is warning senators of the difficulties posed by any potential conflict in Asia and describing how he would use lessons learned from the Ukraine war to help the U.S. military prepare. But Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. may not be able to apply those lessons anytime soon. His nomination to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is among more than 260 that are being stalled by a Republican senator in protest over Pentagon policy that pays for travel when a service member has to go out of state for an abortion or other reproductive care.
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SkyMesh sells Clear Networks’ fixed wireless infrastructure

To Summit Internet.
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Anthropic, OpenAI beef up coding capabilities for their LLMs

The focus on coding capabilities — which positions generative AI tools closer to enterprises — comes as public appetite for AI is diminishing.
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Both Virginia senators call out DoD for foot-dragging reforms to privatized military housing

In today’s Federal Newscast: Virginia Sens. Warner and Kaine send a detailed letter to the Defense Department decrying the lack of reforms to privatized military housing. GSA is turning up its protections to better mitigate supply chain risks. And Customs and Border Protection lays out its agency-wide IT plans.
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GPT detectors can be biased against non-native English writers

Researchers show that computer programs commonly used to determine if a text was written by artificial intelligence tend to falsely label articles written by non-native language speakers as AI-generated. The researchers caution against the use of such AI text detectors for their unreliability, which could have negative impacts on individuals including students and those applying for jobs.
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