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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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18:06

The more industry peels open the omnibus bill, the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/28

The omnibus budget package is a lot more than a bill to fund government operations. Congress stuffed its five thousand pages with tax and business provisions. Some have real impact. For what federal contractors have discovered so far, the Federal Drive turned to the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:20

The Justice department lags in a strategy required by...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/28

Maybe it's lack of leadership. Or lack of attention. But the Justice Department has failed on a critical congressional mandate, that's according to the Government Accountability Office. Justice has been required to update a national strategy to deal with exploitation of children every two years. For what has actually happened, the Federal Drive turned to the GAO's director of Homeland Security and Justice issues, Gretta Goodwin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:19

DHS new technology aims to make it easier for...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/28

A series of challenges in the new year, hosted by the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate, will help measure the accuracy of tools meant to test the validity of someone's identity. The sessions will challenge industry to deliver secure, accurate, and easy-to-use remote identity validation technologies. This so agencies can prevent identity fraud when users apply for government services, open bank accounts, or verify social media accounts. For more, Federal News

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16:30

Big year ahead for Veterans Affairs

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/28

The Veterans Affairs Department is getting ready for a big expansion of health care and benefits thanks to the PACT Act. It all gets underway at the start of the new year. The VA saw its fair share of challenges in 2022. Like the rocky rollout of its Electronic Health Record. And a thud, when plans to modernize its network of facilities fell flat. Joining me for a review of all things VA, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:01

Earmarks returned big time to grease the latest...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/27

Earmarks, appropriations as favors to individual members of Congress, have made a big comeback. More than 7,000 worth billions in the latest deal. The Federal Drive got details from Bloomberg Government Congress reporter Jack Fitzpatrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:23

The Archives puts records from long-ago racial...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/27

A late 19th century law called the Chinese Exclusion Act put a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. Subsequent laws limited Chinese immigration until Congress condemned the Exclusion Act in 2012. Now the National Archives and Records Administration has digitized and put online some 2,200 Chinese Exclusion Act cases files. For how and why this came about, the director of archival operations at NARA's Denver center, Gwen Granados. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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19:28

Will you learn to trust artificial intelligence next...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/27

Taming the sometimes chaotic cloud computing arrangements and learning to love artificial intelligence, those are among the technology trends for 2023 identified by thinkers at Deloitte. For more on this and what else federal IT managers will have to deal with next year, the Federal Drive turned to Deloitte's public sector chief technology officer, Scott

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16:42

Round up of changes federal employees saw in 2022

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/27

For federal employees and federal employment, 2022 was a year where change may have been the biggest constant. More agencies started reopening their office doors, while many feds were pressing for better telework options. There were also big changes in the Thrift Savings Plan and with the Merit Systems Protection Board. Joining the Federal Drive with a roundup, Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:06

Biden makes 4.6% pay raise official for civilian...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/27

Thousands of federal employees will likely see bigger paychecks starting in 2024. The president’s pay agent approved four new pay locality areas that were recommended by the Federal Salary Council. And, once again, the pay agent is calling for “major legislative reforms” to the federal pay system. Joining the Federal Drive with the details, Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:07

The missing ingredient in the President's Management...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/23

Recent guidance -- long and complicated guidance -- went to agency heads concerning the President's Management Agenda. The guidance concerned raising the job satisfaction scores of offices and bureaus. Federal Drive host spoke with a longtime observer of federal management topics, who said the guidance reflects a fundamental mistake. That observor is Bob Tobias, a professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:55

How one big state was able to manage its COVID...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/23

During the worst of the pandemic, Florida officials were able to speed test results to resident thanks to automation. The Florida Department of Health signed up Healthy Together, a provider of online disease management software. The work recently received an award from the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center. For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Healthy Together co-founder Jared Allgood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:54

The EPA's eight big challenges for 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/23

From chemical safety to data security, the Environmental Protection Agency has a range of management and performance challenges in 2023. The list was developed, as legally required, by EPA's office of inspector general. To get the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with acting chief strategy officer Adam Seefeldt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:43

Christmas in July: Omnibus would give TSA employees...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/23

Transportation Security Administration employees are in line for a pay raise next July after lawmakers included funding in the omnibus spending bill to increase salaries and benefits for TSA’s workforce. The government funding bill includes $398 million to bring TSA salaries in line with the rest of the federal workforce and the General Schedule system. The legislation would give TSA 180 days to brief lawmakers on “a detailed plan to effectively measure the impact of these personnel system changes

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15:36

Money flows for technology, cybersecurity in new...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/23

If at first you don’t succeed, try again would be one way of looking at Department of Defense’s effort to use a new mechanism for funding technology. The fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill funds 10 programs for buying software that fall under the Software and Digital Technology Pilot Program. Last year, the Pentagon requested money for the program, but Congress didn’t include it in the final budget. This year, the proposed budget fully funds the 10 programs in order to test the concept in a

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15:27

A federal court decides when a contractor size rule...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/22

A few years back, Congress changed how the Small Business Administration would calculate whether a business qualified as small. It had been the average of three years of revenue. The new rule was five years. The question arose … when did the new calculus kick in. The question had real consequences for a company called Obsidian. To get the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney Zach Prince. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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16:10

Why a Space Force Captain went back to school

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/22

The Air Force and the business school at the University of Maryland have teamed up. Their program helps Air Force and Space Force officers get their MBAs, specializing in technology management. The officers return as faculty members of the Air Force Academy. Ultimately they hope to speed up technology adoption by the armed services. Federal Drive host Tom Temin had an in-studio conversation with one member of the program, Space Force Captain Jared Bodgan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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19:56

The U.S. Agency for International Development revives...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/22

The U.S. Agency for International Development recently re-established a group called the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. It was chartered back in 1946, but it hasn't met in a couple of years. Now it's back to work. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about it with Nisha Biswal, the Senior Vice President at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:30

Omnibus silently endorses 4.6% pay raise for federal...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/22

For federal employees, the most significant part of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that Congress unveiled this week may not be contained in the text of the legislation itself, but rather found in what’s not said. The 4,155-page bill, which House and Senate lawmakers released in the early morning hours of Dec. 20, doesn’t make any reference to the 4.6% across-the-board federal pay raise, in effect silently endorsing the Biden administration’s proposal for 2023. The bill additionally

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17:57

Role of OIRA, compliance with 508 requirements...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/22

Congress many have shown little new love for the Technology Modernization Fund in its fiscal 2023 omnibus bill, but that doesn’t mean IT modernization will not reap what the Office of Management and Budget has been sowing for the past decade. Lawmakers seem to finally grasp there are specific policy changes and resources that agencies need to chip further away at the mounting billions of dollars in technical debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:59

A tool for stronger identity management to make...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/12/21

The government-wide Improper Payment Rate dropped by more than 2% in fiscal 2022. One of the biggest ways agencies can keep it headed downward is stronger identity management. Beryl Davis is the Managing Director of the Financial Management and Assurance team at the Government Accountability Office and Tim Persons is the GAO's Chief Scientist. They tell Federal News Network's Jason Miller about a new tool developed by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program. Learn more about your ad

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