The IRS will have special Saturday hours this weekend at some Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country, and will extend weekday hours through April 30.
- Today is the deadline for the tax filing season. But the IRS is giving more help to those who filed an extension. The IRS will have special Saturday hours this weekend at some of its Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country. The IRS said TACs will be open in dozens of states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The IRS will also have extended hours for in-person help on weekdays through April 30
- The Senate Commerce Committee has passed a bill to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative Act, extending the act to December 2034. The bill reauthorizes quantum research, education and development initiatives at several agencies. It also calls for a national strategy to address cybersecurity threats posed by quantum computing capabilities.
- Federal wildland firefighters may soon see a pay increase for hours they spend working on the front lines. A new proposal from the Office of Personnel Management seeks to pay wildland firefighters 25% more when they are directly working on prescribed fire activities. The National Federation of Federal Employees expressed support for OPM’s new proposal. The union is also advocating for the passage of legislation that would go a step further and put the proposed changes into law.
- The Space Force’s Training and Readiness Command plans to hire more than 400 civilians nationwide. Available jobs span a range of functions including cybersecurity, data science, intelligence analysis and acquisition and program management across several installation, including Patrick Space Force Base in Florida, Schriever Space Force Base in Colorado and Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Space Force officials say the service will need to double in size in the coming years to meet growing national security demands. The service could receive a nearly 80% funding boost in 2027 under President Donald Trump’s proposed defense budget.
- The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is withdrawing summer internship offers. CISA had announced plans to offer up to 100 summer internship roles to CyberCorps Scholarship-for-Service participants. But messages sent to CyberCorps scholars this week announced that CISA would be cancelling its summer internships due to the government shutdown. The move is yet another setback for CyberCorps scholars, who have struggled to find roles in government under the Trump administration. CISA also cancelled CyberCorps internships last summer due to the administration’s federal hiring freeze.
- Some Senate Democrats are warning that federal employees’ civil service protections hang in the balance. The Democrats are raising alarms about a recent decision upholding the at-will firings of two immigration judges last year. In a brief filed this week, they warned that the Merit Systems Protection Board’s decision could lead to a much broader erosion of job protections across the federal workforce. The senators are urging the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to fast-track a hearing, as the immigration judges continue to challenge their terminations.
- While the Navy has made progress modernizing its financial management systems, the service has not fully adhered to key planning practices needed to ensure successful modernization. The Government Accountability Office found the Navy’s modernization effort lacks consistent performance tracking and enterprise-wide oversight, potentially jeopardizing the Pentagon’s goal of achieving a clean audit by 2028. After acknowledging it was wasting billions on outdated IT systems, the Navy began consolidating and retiring legacy systems while shifting to a single financial platform. As a result, the service has eliminated at least 11 legacy systems and completed migrating commands to Navy Enterprise Resource Planning, its financial system of record. The Navy pushed back on several GAO recommendations, arguing it already has mechanisms in place to monitor and manage system migration efforts.
- The General Services Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to automate a significant portion of its internal work. GSA has launched a “million hours challenge” for its internal AI tool to automate a portion of the work done by federal employees and contractors. GSA’s deputy administrator said the agency has already identified about 400,000 work hours that could be automated. GSA lost nearly 40% of its total workforce last year. For context, a million work hours translates into roughly a year of 500 employees working standard eight-hour workdays.
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