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• The Office of Personnel Management is trying to create better pathways to help agencies recruit qualified, younger and more diverse candidates. That’s part of a surge hiring effort for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The law adds 8,000 new federal jobs across agencies including the Departments of Transportation, Energy, Commerce and Agriculture. The hiring surge includes filling 3,000 of those new positions over the first six months after President Biden signed the bill into law. (Federal News Network)

• OPM launches what its chief information officer calls a giant logistics effort. Chief Information Officer Guy Cavallo said his shop is boxing up home-office kits consisting of two monitors, a notebook PC dock, keyboard and mouse. Deliveries, or loading dock pickups, will start within a week. No printers, though. At an ATARC conference in Annapolis Maryland, Cavallo said OPM acknowledges that a substantial portion of its workforce will mostly telework permanently. Those employees won’t have workspaces at OPM offices.

• President Biden nominates Army General Christopher Cavoli for the position of Supreme Allied Commander of Europe. NATO has also supported his nomination. In the position, he will look after allied command operations and head the Supreme Headquarters Allied...

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