Congress appears poised to end the longest-ever shutdown later this week with a bill with major implications for several key agencies.

Krystal Toups, the director for contracts and grants administration at COGR, said the organization is “hopeful that the reopening will largely mark a return to business as usual,” but that it anticipates agencies will take some time to clear backlogs of proposal reviews and grant-related requests.

The federal cybersecurity agency said some government departments had been actively exploited after failing to properly patch their systems.

President Donald Trump’s vow to wage the biggest domestic deportation program in American history – expelling a million people a year – is one of his signature goals.

Instead of lengthy custom builds, agencies are rapidly prototyping new tools and applications, leveraging faster acquisition options like GSA OneGov, and turning on AI features on infrastructures they already own.

Some agencies are restricting when employees can take administrative leave to vote and are setting stricter time limits than governmentwide policies.

Federal CBP agents set to deploy in Charlotte area as immigration enforcement expands into North Carolina, sparking tension between federal priorities and local officials.

Environmental groups are calling on the federal government to protect a fish species only found near land slated for a data center campus in Bessemer.