Management

The 19th Explains: What you need to know about Project 2025

A 920-page policy blueprint contains the Heritage Foundation’s vision for a second Trump administration — with impacts on women, LGBTQ+ rights, families, education and the workforce.

Route Fifty

If a presidential nominee drops out, what happens to states’ ballots?

Experts say it’s likely the Supreme Court would settle the resulting mess.

Opinion

The silent killer of GovCon growth: Are you in denial?

GovCon executives at mid-sized companies often blame external factors for lost bids. But the real culprit is often internal denial, writes business development practitioner Nic Coppings.

Contracts

DOD’s generative AI task force will help set guardrails for broader use

The head of the Pentagon’s Task Force Lima said recommendations from the project will help officials develop the infrastructure needed to adopt AI technologies.

Commercial

Airbus and Thales in talks to merge satellite businesses

Potential tie-up aims to create European space champion as industry shifts to smaller satellites.

Management

The Trump campaign shooting puts a spotlight on Secret Service leadership, and the women serving in its ranks

Kimberly Cheatle, the second woman to lead the agency, is being called to testify in front of Congress, while conservatives question whether women are fit to provide protection.

Defense One

The Pentagon's generative-AI task force is trying to answer a lot of questions

How should new tools be used? Where should the actual computing take place? How much will this all cost? And that's just the start.

Defense One

In picking Vance, Trump takes another step away from Ukraine

Donald Trump’s first running mate tried to steer him toward defending European democracy. His new one won’t.

Defense One

New ICBM effort won’t slow down despite pledges to ‘restructure’ as costs balloon

Air Force says problems lie less with the Sentinel missile and more with its supporting infrastructure.

Route Fifty

Skills-based hiring smashes through ‘paper ceiling’

Multiple states have embraced a movement to drop degree requirements for certain jobs. But the change is not as simple as a stroke of a pen.

Route Fifty

States are enacting school cellphone bans. Here’s what that looks like.

Virginia became the latest state to take action against smartphone usage in public schools. The policy approaches differ.

Nextgov

Info warriors coming to Navy subs in the Pacific

The move follows two other pilot efforts with Naval Submarine Forces, said Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, the service’s outgoing “I-boss.”

Nextgov

DOD’s generative AI task force will help set guardrails for broader use

The head of the Pentagon’s Task Force Lima said recommendations from the project will help officials develop the infrastructure needed to adopt AI technologies.

News

Empowering Asian and immigrant youth to pursue their futures

An interview with Jiyoon Chung, executive director of Apex for Youth, on how the nonprofit wants to expand its services throughout New York City and beyond.

Route Fifty

In an era of dam removal, California is building more

Project boosters claim the dams will be the most environmentally focused dams in California’s history, with water earmarked for environmental purposes and minimum flow requirements for the Sacramento River.

Politics

U.S. Senate candidates’ use of negative ads becomes flashpoint after Trump assassination attempt

Dave McCormick made a pitch online Monday to suspend negative campaigning despite continuing to run such ads.

Management

Here’s how Trump’s new vice presidential pick stacks up on federal workforce issues

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, has been at the center of GOP efforts in Congress to “dismantle” diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies, and has suggested that if Trump wins re-election, he should fire “every mid-level bureaucrat” in government.