Independent, nonpartisan U.S. congressional agency that audits federal spending, programs, and agencies for efficiency and legality.
The US Army says it has not yet declared its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile fully fielded, more than three years after the original target. A missile that flies in tests can still lack what a unit needs to use it.
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Treasury and the IRS proposed rules on Oct. 14 limiting premium tax credits to citizens, nationals and certain lawfully present noncitizens from 2027. About 19.2 million people were enrolled in marketplace plans in early 2026, according to HHS, the base any 2027 loss would be measured against.
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UPS routed Australian F-35 stealth parts through ITAR-barred Hong Kong after an agent missed an email warning, according to two reports. A ban that simple can be enforced by the routing system, provided the export flag travels with the booking.
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None of 24 federal agencies reviewed by the US GAO has fully completed all three post-quantum basics of inventory, funding and testing. Europol's guidance a day later puts the risk on data harvested now and decrypted whenever a capable quantum computer appears.
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Anduril is spending $3.7 billion of its own capital on a Baltimore County shipyard to go with a Navy submarine contract worth up to $2.9 billion. The yard will make Virginia-class parts, so getting the money back depends on the Navy buying more boats.
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OT Cybersecurity Coalition urges CISA to issue a binding directive requiring each federal agency to name an OT security owner and meet minimum practices. The push follows GAO's finding that most civilian agencies have not enacted OMB's 2023 IoT and OT requirements.
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President Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion Congress approved, including $28 million in HHS research grants, with five days left in the fiscal year. Congress's auditor calls the tactic illegal, and the Supreme Court's one ruling on it rested on foreign-affairs powers absent from domestic grants.
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ShinyHunters says the two to three terabytes it took from the FBI include psychiatric and medical evaluations of bureau staff. Beside a Reuters sample tying named staff to counterintelligence jobs, those files are exposure no password reset can fix.
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The federal government is on track to spend about $970 billion servicing its debt in fiscal 2025. The whole gap between that burden and corporate America's is attributed to when each side refinanced.
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Payroll data shows federal administrative leave spending rose 435% between 2023 and 2025 to $9.5bn. OPM's director calls that a one-time expense and claims $40bn a year in savings. Agencies are already backfilling more than 20,000 of the vacated roles.
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Ten current and former staff told Scientific American that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center no longer has the people or the equipment to build a telescope like Roman. NASA says flagship missions remain a core Goddard capability.
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The first report from the Fed's outside review of its own Silicon Valley Bank supervision backs most of what three earlier audits found, but clears the social media posts blamed in 2023 of creating the condition depositors ran from.
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Reporters covered nearly 600 of the 800 towers the government says are operating, and they had to assemble the map themselves from outside sources. Death records follow no shared protocol, so their count of more than 1,050 deaths nearby is a floor.
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Boeing gets three Lot 1 aircraft plus long-lead parts for three more, with first deliveries due in 2029. That is also the year the Navy now expects the unmanned tanker to reach initial operational capability, four years late.
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The penalty starts in fiscal 2028, but FY2025 and FY2026 performance sets each state's tier, and Elastic is selling ingest-time flagging into that window. The national error rate was 10.93 percent in FY2024.
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The GAO counted 12,346 Amazon workers on SNAP across eleven states, close to triple its 2020 finding, over a stretch in which the company's annual profit went from $11.6bn to $77.7bn. Labor's share of output is 52.8%.
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About a thousand institutions filed cannabis-related suspicious activity reports last year, some 11% of insured depositories, though GAO cautions that some were one-off transactions rather than accounts, so the figure caps participation rather than measuring it.
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H.R.10230 would restore the NCUA's lapsed authority over third-party vendors and extend similar power over the institutions the FHFA regulates. The Defense Credit Union Council says the scope is drawn too wide. No hearing date is on the record.
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Lenders see bigger tickets on better-established credits, while the contractors already inside see 114,500 new bidders competing for a reserved share of federal spending that the rule does not enlarge.
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Two borrowers, one internally inconsistent servicer notice, and a GAO finding of poor coordination since July 1. Fixing a credit file takes about a month; the notices arrive on a Saturday.
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