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The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

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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16:25

Hundreds of federal employees teleworking overseas...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/12

The Civil Service Federal Employee Serving Overseas Pay Equity Act will establish a locality pay equivalent for some 265 active civilian federal employees, mostly State Department employees, working under the DETO program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:00

The military vaccine mandate is dead. So now what?

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/12

Long controversial, the military vaccine mandate has been killed off by the just-enacted 2023 National Defense Authorization law. So now what? Can fired services members rejoin? To get some answers, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Anthony Kuhn, managing partner at the law firm Tully Rinckey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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30:54

Janice Underwood: America's Chief Diversity Officer

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/11

Diversity and equity in the federal government is a top priority for the Biden administration. The 2021 executive order created a chief diversity officers' executive council led by OPM. The diversity leaders are at work on long-term changes, with a lot of planning, two council meetings and a DEIA summit. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got the latest from the chief, Chief Diversity Officer, Janice Underwood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:33

The review that helps DoD create better contract...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/11

With a record-breaking new defense budget, Defense Contracting Management Agency wants to make sure individual agencies have the skills necessary to fulfill contracting obligations and follow all the rules. While many bigger agencies have internal review programs, smaller agencies rely on a procurement management review (PMR) to find errors in their contracting programs and identify best practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:56

The Defense Department is urged to get a better...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/11

Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding. To explore the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Marie Mak, GAO's Director of Contracting and

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17:41

Things seem settled in Washington, but federal...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/10

Federal employees will be getting a nice raise now. But federal contractors are not totally certain they will be able to get inflation adjustments from their agency customers. That's despite the fact that the defense authorization law specifically mentioned contract modification for inflation relief. What's going on? Federal Drive host Tom Temin checked-in with the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:59

Immigration forms are growing as fast as immigration

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/10

For every would-be immigrant to the United States, there is a government form. Or several forms. A recent count of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services forms shows astonishing growth in the number and length of forms. To get some more details on all this, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the Cato Institute's associate director of immigration studies, David Bier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:48

Social Security commits to a new website design it...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/10

The customer experience drive has not been lost on the Social Security Administration. Few if any agencies exceed the 180 million online visitors SSA receives every year. Now Social Security has made a significant upgrade to its public website to make it easier to use. To get the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with SSA's acting chief business officer, Eric Powers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:33

OPM finding ways to better engage agency’s internal...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/10

The Office of Personnel Management is ramping up work on IT modernization for both its main website and federal retirement services, but those are not the only changes coming from the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:28

VBA looks to hire thousands more employees to speed...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/09

The Department of Veterans Affairs expects to keep growing its benefits division’s workforce through the end of the fiscal year, now that it’s able to tackle a trove of veterans’ claims that’s been growing since the summer. The VA on Jan. 1 started processing all claims submitted under the PACT Act, which enables a historic expansion of eligibility for VA health care and benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:23

Speaking of the House: What's in store for the 118th...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/09

Besides the tragedy-comedy drama over selection of a House Speaker, there is a rather potent agenda for the 118th Congress. Authorizations. Appropriations are so far off. Debt ceiling. And the gambits Republicans in the house are hoping to launch. To cover it all in 10 minutes, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:39

A playbook for the government to force the end of gas...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/09

Should the government use its footprint in the mortgage market and disaster relief to force electrification of homes and schools? One froup called Rewiring America thinks so, and it has a long list of agenda items. To find out more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Rewiring America's research director Stephen Pantano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:26

The Forest Service claims progress in the effort to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/09

The Forest Services, part of the Agriculture Department, is in the midst of a 10-year effort to better prevent wildfires, the kinds of seemingly out-of-control blazes that have charred millions of acres out west. With six months until the peak danger season, Federal Drive host Tom Temin checks-in with the strategy's program manager, Brian Ferebee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:13

GSA surged resources to meet inflation-related...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/06

Erv Koehler, the assistant commissioner of the Office of General Supplies and Services in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said upgrades to the pricing tool, the catalog and a pilot around creating a market basket will help improve the schedules program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:52

Calling all farmers: USDA wants to know how your last...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/06

Every five years, the Agriculture Department releases a census to gauge U.S. farms and ranches, as well as the people who operate them. The questionnaire is issued and catalogued by USDA's National Agriculture Statistics Service. To find out what it entails, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the head of NASS, Huber Hamer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:44

The TSP board says it isn't done touching up its new...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/06

The board overseeing the federal Thrift Savings Plan has been working for six months to fix bugs in its brand new website launched last June. Many functions have been improved, but customers say there's still work to be done. For an update, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the board's external affairs director, Kim Weaver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:48

Air Force researchers develop a new approach to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/06

An enduring challenge for military IT people: getting just the right information securely to people who need it, especially in contested environments. Now researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate think they have a solution. It's called robust information provisioning layer, or RIPL. To find out more about it, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with program manager Brian Holmes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:27

Forthcoming national cyber strategy highlights 2023...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/06

Cybersecurity is the gift that keeps on giving, and 2023 promises to be as busy as ever for agencies and contractors across a range of cyber policy developments.The White House Office of the National Cyber Director is expected to issue a new national cyber strategy within the next couple of months. Mark Montgomery, the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the strategy will likely map out a shift already underway toward

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16:37

Omnibus bill rethinks federal office space needs,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/05

A comprehensive spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2023 outlines a plan for federal buildings, including a way forward for the headquarters of two federal law enforcement agencies. The fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill Congress released this week to fund federal operations and avert a government shutdown on Friday directs the General Services Administration to further consolidate office space for the federal workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:54

What Thrift Savings Plan participants can look...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2023/01/05

No one is looking back fondly on last year when it comes to the Thrift Savings Plan. The markets had a terrible year across the board. And the TSP board is still catching up from a difficult deployment of a new system for plan members to manage their accounts. To find out what to expect in 2023, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Abe Grungold, financial coach and retired federal executive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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