Government & Public Sector — Federal agencies struggle with IT modernization and AI amid staffing challenges.

Government & Public Sector · 2026-04-14

Today's reporting reveals a federal government caught between two powerful and contradictory forces: aggressive workforce reduction and ambitious technology modernization. The Partnership for Public Service's $165.6 billion cost estimate for federal workforce changes arrives alongside news that OPM omitted over 100 departures from its Retirement Services division — the very unit processing an…