About Reveille Brief

Reveille Brief explains, in plain English, what moved each Thrift Savings Plan fund and why, for service members and federal employees. It never needs your TSP login, and it never tells you what to buy or sell.

Who we are

Reveille Brief is published by Reveille Brief, LLC, a small independent company in Suffolk, Virginia. It's written and reviewed by the Reveille Brief Team, to give a straight answer to “why did my TSP move today?”

We are not affiliated with the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, the Thrift Savings Plan, the Department of War, the Office of Personnel Management, or any part of the U.S. government.

How each daily briefing is made

  1. Prices. Each morning we load the official share prices the TSP publishes on tsp.gov and calculate every fund's daily, weekly, monthly and year-to-date change.
  2. Research. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) reads the previous day's market news from reputable financial sources and drafts an explanation, using only our calculated numbers for the funds.
  3. Automatic checks. Every draft is scanned for advice language (like “buy,” “sell” or “move your money”) and rejected or rewritten if it contains any.
  4. Human review. A person reads and approves each briefing before it's sent or published.
  5. Sources. Every briefing links the articles and data it relied on. We summarize news in our own words and never republish articles.

Where our numbers come from

  • Fund prices and returns: official TSP share prices (tsp.gov), back to 2003.
  • Military pay: DFAS basic pay tables. Civilian pay: OPM General Schedule, law enforcement and special rate tables.
  • Contribution limits, matching, pension formulas and withdrawal ages: IRS notices, TSP bulletins, OPM, Department of War and VA sources, listed with each guide and calculator. We last checked these rules on September 27, 2026.
  • Your balance: estimated from the share counts you enter or confirm from a statement, times official prices. It's an estimate; your official balance is on tsp.gov.

What we don't do

  • We never ask for your tsp.gov username, password or two-factor codes, and we never connect to your TSP account.
  • We don't give investment advice or tell anyone to change funds. Projections and calculators are labeled estimates.
  • We don't sell your data or show ads, and we use no advertising or tracking cookies.

Corrections

If something we published is wrong, email support@reveillebrief.com with the page and what's off. We check it against the original source, fix it promptly, and update the date on the page.

Contact

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