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• Senate Panel Raises Concerns about Staff Levels at DoD - July 31, 2025

• FEDweek

  The Senate Armed Services Committee in approving its version of the annual DoD authorization bill raised several concerns about staff levels and personnel policies at the department.

  In the most sweeping provision, the bill would prevent any funds “from being used to reduce the work force at public shipyards,” but it also raises concerns about staffing in other areas, particularly high-demand positions in cybersecurity.

  For example, the committee cited the importance of the Defense Cyber Service Academy scholarship program, which provides tuition-free education to students in exchange for a commitment to serve in D0D or intelligence community cybersecurity roles. “The committee is concerned that despite the President’s memorandum on the hiring freeze including an exception for positions related to national security, a hiring freeze remains in place for key cyber and science and technology roles,” says the committee report on the bill.

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