• More moves to reorganize the Army take effect today. The new Army Western Hemisphere Command will officially come into being with its headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The new organization combines the existing U.S. Army North, U.S. Army South and Army Forces Command under one umbrella before those organizations are formally disestablished next October. The new command will also absorb the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps, Air Traffic Services Command and the 1st Army.
  (More moves to reorganize the Army take effect today - U.S. Army)
• Workforce reductions have become a top challenge at the Office of Personnel Management, according to an agency watchdog. OPM’s inspector general said the agency’s rapid staffing losses this year have created gaps in its ability to operate effectively. According to OPM, the reductions are meant to enhance efficiency. But a new IG report warns that the staffing losses could lead to significant challenges and disruptions in the agency’s work. OPM is on track to lose more than one-third of its entire workforce by the end of the year.
  (Top management challenges for fiscal year 2026 - Office of Personnel Management, Office of Inspector General)
• Close to two-thirds of Americans believe management of the federal government has been heading in the wrong direction. A majority also says the government is operating worse now than it was a year ago. The new findings from the Partnership for Public Service indicate that much of the public is pessimistic about the impacts of the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts. In a recent survey from the Partnership, one-quarter of respondents said they believe the government is moving in the right direction.
  (Survey of Americans on management of federal government - Partnership for Public Service)
• Professional services contractors get ready: OASIS+ Phase 2 is here. The General Services Administration is adding five new domains to the existing multiple award contract and opening all new and existing functional areas for bids from new companies in January. GSA said the five new domains under OASIS+ Phase 2 will include business administration, financial services, human capital, marketing and public relations, and social services. Vendors should be on the look out for a pre-amendment notice on SAM.gov around December 16, which will detail the draft scorecards for all domains.
  (OASIS+ phase 2 is here - General Services Administration)
• The Department of Health and Human Services is setting new restrictions on telework as a reasonable accommodation for employees with disabilities. A new HHS-wide reasonable accommodation policy says all requests for telework, remote work or reassignment must be reviewed and approved by an assistant secretary or a higher-level official. Frontline supervisors no longer have the authority to make those decisions. A memo from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all telework related to reasonable accommodations will be repealed.
  (CDC tells staff telework reasonable accommodations ‘will be repealed,’ as HHS sets stricter rules - Federal News Network)
• Unions are asking a federal court to reverse more layoffs than agencies have allowed so far. An amendment to an ongoing lawsuit asks a federal judge in San Francisco to reverse more reductions in force under a spending deal that ended the recent government shutdown. The continuing resolution states agencies can’t use federal funds to carry out RIFs between mid-November and the end of January. But agencies have only reinstated federal employees who received RIF notices between October 1 and November 12. The amended lawsuit seeks to force the departments of State, Education and Defense, as well as the Small Business Administration and the General Services Administration to rescind more RIFs.
  (Unions file emergency request with court to block State Dept layoffs, reverse RIFs at other agencies - Federal News Network)
• The Pentagon inspector general’s long-awaited report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the Signal app to discuss operational details concluded that Hegseth “sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information” from his personal cell phone, which violates Defense Department rules that prohibit the use of personal devices and nonapproved apps for official business. The IG also determined that Hegseth’s use of a personal device for official work “risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.” The Pentagon only provided a partial copy of messages from Hegseth’s personal cell phone. The IG relied on the transcript of the public chat posted by The Atlantic for this investigation. The IG said Hegseth declined to be interviewed for this evaluation. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said the report is a “total exoneration” of Hegseth and that “the case is closed.”
  (Hegseth's use of Signal violated information sharing rules, risked troops' safety, DoD IG finds - Department of Defense)
• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging agencies and industry to take action against a new cyber threat from China. At least eight organizations, including federal agencies, IT companies and critical infrastructure providers, have fallen victim to a new and sophisticated malware attack. CISA is telling all organizations to take action to protect their systems from BRICKSTORM. Nick Andersen, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, said the malware could enable long term access, disruption and potential sabotage. "BRICKSTORM is a sophisticated malware," he said. "It has advanced functionality to conceal communications, move laterally and tunnel into victim networks. It can also automatically reinstall or restart the malware if disrupted." CISA issued a new analysis and recommendations yesterday for how organizations can protect themselves from BRICKSTORM.
  (Agencies, IT companies impacted by latest malware from China - Federal News Network)

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