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Army Feeling Pressure Of Hiring Freeze, Unpredictable Funding

Army Feeling Pressure Of Hiring Freeze, Unpredictable Funding
Lt. Gen. Edward C. Cardon, then-commander of the U.S Army Cyber Command, addresses an audience of government, business and education cyber professionals at the University of Washington-Tacoma, Wash., on May 5, 2015. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Micah VanDyke, 19th Public Affairs Detachment)

The Army is feeling the pinch of the Trump administration’s civilian hiring freeze and is being forced to find efficiencies that can compensate for attrition in its civilian ranks.Lt. Gen. Edward Cardon, director of the Army’s Office of Business Transformation, said the service is feeling the effects of the mandatory 120-day hiring freeze and those effects are compounded by unpredictable funding under a series of continuing resolutions.“Right now we are under a CR that runs through April, but we don’t…

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