Management
The White House Has a New Data-Driven Criminal-Justice Project
This is the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at reform.
Defense
Air Force Officers Give New Details for F-35 in War With China
For the first time, key officers lay out how they’d deploy the stealth F-35 and F-22 in an all-out war with China.
Oversight
Loretta Lynch Says She Won’t Intervene to Save Hillary Clinton
The attorney general reportedly plans to announce that she will accept the recommendations of federal prosecutors investigating the former secretary of state and her use of a private email server.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Awkward Handshakes at the North American Leaders' Summit
Things got weird in Ottawa.
Defense
Bikini Islanders Still Deal With Fallout of U.S. Nuclear Tests, 70 Years Later
In the summer of 1946, the U.S. government detonated the first of many atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Seventy years of radiation exposure later, residents are still fighting for justice, and a government compensation program is broke.
Route Fifty
A New Coalition to Lower State and Local Incarceration Rates
Launched by the White House, the Data-Driven Justice Initiative wants to lower prison inmate numbers and increase the number of prisoners receiving health care and mental health services with proven methods.
Oversight
The Ongoing Mystery of Who OK'd Clinton's Private Server
Judicial Watch deposes aide Huma Abedin and Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy.
Nextgov
The Intelligence Community Will Monitor Wearables to Find the Perfect Spy
The new program will measure each volunteer's biometric signals during their daily activities, according the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Route Fifty
Donald Trump Finds Fertile Ground North of Maine’s ‘Volvo Line’
In a region hit hard by the decline of the paper industry, the Republican presidential nominee tells a packed crowd: “We’re going to bring back our jobs.”
Nextgov
Inside NSA’s 'Sociotechnical' Data Experiment
The numbers alone aren't enough to change how an agency makes decisions.
Nextgov
Nearly One-Third of Feds Unable to Detect an Insider Intrusion, Survey Says
Federal employees might be overconfident about their IT systems' intrusion detection ability.
Defense
The U.S. Military's Welcome for Transgender Troops
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Thursday that U.S. armed forces will no longer prevent transgender people from serving openly.
Management
Federal Agencies Continue to Shed Security Clearance Holders
Most reductions have come from cleared individuals without access to sensitive information.
Pay & Benefits
SES Performance Award Spending Cap Will Increase to 7.5 Percent in October
The change is part of a series of Obama administration reforms to improve the Senior Executive Service.
Route Fifty
Ariz. Gov. Fires All State Contract Lobbyists; Ky. Probes Radioactive Fracking Waste From W.Va.
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Kansas’ unprocessed Medicaid applications more than thought; desert town’s $238,000 hedge headache; and Pennsylvania’s state troopers set to retire en masse.
Pay & Benefits
Why It Pays to Keep Your Own Records
A cautionary tale about documenting your service, and doing some pre-retirement tax planning.
Nextgov
How to Continue FITARA’s Momentum in the Next Administration
With an administration shift, the people appointed sometimes “don’t even know how to spell ‘information technology,'" one former agency CIO said.
Management
It’s Time to Cut the Long Lines for Government Services
Nobody likes to wait for service, but we seem to reserve a special level of ire when waiting for government services. There’s a way to change that.
Defense
All-Clear at Joint Base Andrews
The base in Maryland lifted its lockdown after it instructed all personnel to shelter in place because of a report Thursday of an active shooter.
Tech