Any federal employee or contractor that has been through a background check and whose information may have been compromised in the OPM breach, beware of any emails or phone calls that are claiming to be from the government or others acting on their behalf. You are likely being scammed. Any notice you will receive will come in the mail. A June 30 alert from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned that “US-CERT is aware of phishing campaigns masquerading as emails from [OPM] or the identity protection firm CSID.”
http://gcn.com/articles/2015/07/01/opm-phishing.aspx?admgarea=TC_SecCybersSec
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.