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The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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The Federal Drive with Terry Gertonprovides expert insights on current events in the federal community.Read more interviewsto keep up with daily news and analysis that affect the federal workforce. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.

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18:59

This lawyer says public unions are not only wrong,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/12

Public employee unions are a fact of life at the federal and most state levels of government, and in many large cities. President John Kennedy famously authorized them at the federal level back in the early 1960s. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with an author, who argues that public unions not only promote inefficiency, they're also unconstitutional. Philip Howard is an attorney and founder of Common Good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:19

Here's a civil service reform bill you'll want to pay...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/12

A bill from Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) would make federal executive branch employees "at-will." You could be fired for any reason, short of a prohibited personnel practice. For one interpretation of what the bill could mean, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke to John Hatton of NARFE: the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- May 12, 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/12

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: This author says public unions are not only wrong, they're unconstitutional. The HHS Principal Deputy Inspector General says more money is needed to combat medical fraud. Here's a civil service reform bill you'll want to pay attention to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:14

Like the revolving door, Defense Department ethics...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

A recent Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing raised questions of integrity and the so-called revolving door between industry and the Defense Department. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) was among the witnesses, saying there's too much industrial influence on Pentagon decisions coming from former officers and high-level civilians. For a summary, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with POGO's Government Affairs Manager, Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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19:03

This bill could compensate veterans exposed to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

The Tonopah Test Range is a classified spot in Nevada, operated by the Defense and Energy Departments. It was once the site for nuclear materials testing. Many veterans who worked at Tonopah in later years claim exposure to residual radiation has caused health problems. Now a bill from Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) would compensate these veterans. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the man who did much of the research and documentation of the radiation effects. The bill is name after him: Air Force

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20:12

This NASA project really shows the need for supply...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

Supply-chain cybersecurity might seem like and abstraction, until you are, say, NASA, and building new ground stations to support the multi-billion-dollar Artemis-to-Mars program. All those antenna signals, data processing, communication links. At the recent ACTIAC conference on emerging technology, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with Jena Garrahy, Program Manager for Space Communications and Navigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:06

Senators push major reforms to government’s security...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

A bipartisan group of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing a significant overhaul of the government’s procedures for classifying information, seeking both to curtail what they say is a massive over-classification problem and to and make existing records simpler to declassify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:59

OPM addresses gender pay gap, proposes ban on...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

The Office of Personnel Management, looking to fully close the gender pay gap in the federal workforce, is taking a new approach to try to level the playing field for new federal hires. Proposed regulations OPM published Wednesday would bar agencies from using a federal job candidate’s previous salary history when setting pay as part of an employment offer. OPM’s proposal aims to address the pay disparity between men, and women and racial minorities, in the federal workforce. In 2022, women federal

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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- May 11, 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/11

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: This NASA project really shows the need for supply chain security This bill could compensate veterans exposed to radiation at a Nevada test range. Like the revolving door, Defense Department ethics questions keep coming 'round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:03

It's time to fix fungible policy for non-fungible...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/10

Non-fungible digital asset. It's a term few people even heard of five years ago. Now it's the cause of an effort to figure out the best regulatory policy for these blockchain doodads. Like, which agency should actually take the lede here. To learn more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Information Technology and Innovation Foundation VP Daniel Castro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:06

An analysis of whistleblower retaliation claims at...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/10

Whistleblowers have played a critical role in policy changes at the Veterans Affairs Department over the years, but it comes at a cost for many of them. Some face demotions, workplace hostility, other indignities. There are mechanisms in place to protect them from being punished, but how have they performed? The Government Accountability Office recently took a look at whistleblower retaliation cases at the VA. To learn more about what they found, Federal Drive Executive Producer spoke with Thomas

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17:56

Industry skepticism about a Defense Department...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/10

Perhaps you have heard of CMMC, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Now in its 2.0 version, it is supposed to lay minimum cybersecurity standards on contractors doing business with the Defense Department. But it is like a storm on the horizon that never really arrives. Some company executives are skeptical. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with one such skeptic: Matt Hodson, the Chief Information Officer of Valeo Networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- May 10, 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/10

On today's episode of the Federal Newscast with Tom Temin: Industry skepticism about a Defense Department cybersecurity policy is only growing. An analysis of whistleblower retaliation claims at Veterans Affairs It's time to fix fungible policy for non-fungible digital tokens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:22

SBA seeks to grow shrinking pool of small businesses...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/10

The Small Business Administration expects the federal government to meet upcoming targets for more of its contract spending to go to small companies, but is trying to reverse a significant decline in the number of small firms actually doing business in the federal marketplace. The total number of federal contracting dollars going to small businesses keeps going up year over year. More than $154 billion in federal contracts went to small businesses in fiscal 2021 — about 27% of all government

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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- May 9, 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/09

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: How the Transportation Department tries to bolster a little-known piece of infrastructure. Cloud computing is the next line in the competition with China. Does the GSA have the best data to work with during price negotiations with contractors? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:20

Does the GSA have the best data to work with during...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/09

A new report from the General Services Administration's Inspector General didn't have many nice things to say about its Multiple Award Schedule’s Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) pilot. First criticizing the agency for not using the data, then calling the data itself unusable. This left at least one contracting expert confused on the IG's true intent here. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Larry Allen, President of Allen Federal Business Partners. Learn more about your ad choices

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22:01

Cloud computing is the next line in the competition...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/09

It's fair to say, federal agencies will never buy commercial cloud computing services from Chinese vendors. But China aims to take the lead in cloud computing worldwide. To examine that competitive challenge to the United States, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Jim Lewis, Senior VP for the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:27

How the Transportation Department tries to bolster a...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/09

Only a couple of shipyards in the United States can build Navy ships. Hundreds of small shipyards, though, build important pieces of the country's at-home infrastructure: barges, ferries, tugboats. That is why the Transportation Department, through the Maritime Administration, has an ongoing program of grants to small shipyards, to help them stay afloat, so to speak. For an update, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with MARAD Administrator, retired Navy Rear Admiral Ann Phillips. Learn more about

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14:38

CYBERCOM acquisition has the money, now it needs the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/09

After years of working as a small shop with most of its requirements outsourced to the Air Force, Cyber Command’s J9 acquisition and technology directorate finally has the ingredients for an independent acquisition program. While it may be some time before it can take on big platform acquisitions on its own, it now has the budget, if not the manpower, to increase the scope and scale of what it buys. The plan is part of a five-year build up that will eventually see the directorate operating with more

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19:01

That tick-tick-tick-tick-tick you hear? It's the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/05/08

With cameras whirring, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders will meet with President Biden tomorrow. Their topic? What else but the debt ceiling impasse. For more on this and other congressional matters, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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