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The Department of Defense is launching a deferred resignation program and early retirement initiative aimed at trimming the size of the civilian workforce, the agency said over the weekend.

I don't like this deferred resignation. I do think it is playing on people's fears," Michael L. Vogelsang, Jr. said.

The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by ...

WASHINGTON — Highly qualified experts, civilian employees who are also reservists and foreign embassy staff do not qualify for the Defense Department’s deferred resignation program because ...

“There are no excluded positions at GSA, and employees are still eligible if they are on RIF lists,” according to a Friday ...

Elon Musk's DOGE has pressured a key Pentagon program to close The Defense Digital Service will cease operating by May 2025 ...

The Department of Defense recently announced a “deferred resignation program and a voluntary early retirement authority (or ”VERA") for civilian employees — and employees can apply for either starting ...

In a memo Friday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed his team to implement another deferred resignation program. A news release published Saturday said the program was being “reopened for ...

Nearly one in five workers at the US Department of Labor opted to leave their jobs later this year as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, according to two DOL employees ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced a Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) and Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) for civilian employees ...

Employees with the Justice Department’s civil rights division have been offered another chance to take deferred resignations, ...