This is the second of two FEDZONE columns discussing military service credit rules for federal retirement purposes including retirement under CSRS and FERS.  This column discusses the amount of a military deposit for CSRS/CSRS Offset and FERS employees who want ... Read More

 This is the first of two FEDZONE columns discussing military service credit rules for federal retirement under both the CSRS and FERS retirement systems Military service includes active-duty service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard ... Read More

Overview of the Federal Energy and Water Management Awards, where the FEMP will hand out 4 types of awards to around 30 individuals or teams. The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is administered by the Department of Energy and aims ... Read More

How Army’s “digital transformation” is going after 2020 blueprint was initialized. The US Army has requested $16.6 billion of its Fiscal Year 2023 budget be allocated to cybersecurity and IT funding. While the amount of money might sound large, it ... Read More

You may qualify for a reservist pension before age 60. Here’s why it is important to make sure your healthcare coverage is affordable first. For those who have served more than 20 years in the National Guard, Air National Guard, ... Read More

The Georgia Cyber Center, 2 Hours Outside of Atlanta, is improving the way the military designs and develops new technology. A two-building campus in Georgia with aspirations to make the surrounding area the “Silicon Valley of the South,” is the ... Read More

Cybersecurity in the Federal Government: Offensive missions will be conducted via unified platform across the US Cyber Command by 2024. The US Cyber Command is a component of the Department of Defense. It includes three teams each from several military ... Read More

Former federal employee is behind bars for attempting to sell personal information of Veterans and Coworkers. Also, a former federal contractor heads home from prison. Complimentary Webinars Philip Hall, who used to be a program analyst for the Department of ... Read More

The Pentagon recently indicated it is not abandoning the JEDI contract with Microsoft despite prolonged legal delays- plus other defense contracts for AR and Night Vision Goggles. Complimentary Webinars The JEDI Contract The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI) cloud ... Read More

The Annual Cyber-Blitz event was originally designed for the Army to test emerging tech- but in the past 2 years has matured in a Multi-Domain operation Cybersecurity, including the rapidly growing field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), has become a much ... Read More