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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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21:01

Treasury's progress, challenges with auditable...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/31

The larger the budgets and deficits grow, the more elusive auditable financial statements of federal finances seem to get. The Government Accountability Office says the Treasury Department has made good progress on some deficiencies. But new ones have popped up. We get the latest from the GAO's director of financial management and assurance issues, Dawn Simpson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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29:27

How missile defense adapts to the contested domain of...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/31

Thirty some years after the end of the Cold War, missiles remain a threat to United States. And now space, where most crucial military communications occur, has become a contested domain. For an update on how the military deals with these threats, I spoke with the deputy to the commander of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command at his office within Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Alabama. Richard De Fatta is a retired Army colonel, now the senior civilian executive at SMDC. We started with

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19:49

Veterans Affairs shines among big agencies when it...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/30

The Veterans Affairs Department was the only large agency to improve its employee satisfaction score last year. It raked number five in the large agency "Best Places to Work" listing. Gina Grosso, the VA’s Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration, told Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman, that COVID-19 really changed how the VA, like many other agencies, is thinking about its own workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:53

The fate of the SBIR program hangs in the balance of...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/30

In about 30 days, one of the longest running and most successful small business programs will expire. The House will have 14 days in September with votes scheduled to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program when it returns to Washington, D.C. after Labor Day. Meanwhile, the Senate reconvenes on Sept. 6 and doesn’t spell out how many days it plans to be in D.C. and voting on bills. To be sure, the fate of the SBIR program hangs in the balance of what Congress can do by Sept

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21:28

Some do's and don'ts for contractors as the end of...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/30

The vacation season for federal contractors is over. Just a month remains in the fiscal year. Now they're working overtime to make numbers. But now's not the time to make mistakes that could cost you future business or draw a protest. Federal Drive host Tom Temin got a few year-end do's and don'ts from federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:38

Federal scientists find a way to reduce the costs of...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/30

If the nation is to have a so-called green future, many scientists and engineers believe more nuclear power generation will be part of the equation. Nukes are expensive to operate. But researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory think they've found a way to use artificial intelligence to drive down costs. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Roberto Ponciroli, Argonne's principal nuclear engineer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:16

Video conference calls might be limiting your creativity

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/30

The zeitgeist of the past two years could well be embodied by the video conference call. These virtual conference rooms have become the principal way groups communicate with so many people teleworking or still wary of COVID. Now a detailed academic study shows that the video meeting format limits creativity relative to how many ideas people come up with when they meet in person. Federal Drive host Tom Temin went in serach of the details by talking with the study's principal author Melanie Brucks,

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20:24

A peek into some of the contractor support needed for...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/29

With the planned launch of its new heavy rocket and a payload headed to orbit the moon, it's a red letter day for NASA. Lots of contractors are working-on and behind-the-scenes and will be doing so for the duration of the mission. On Friday, Federal Drive host Tom Temin caught up with Nate Apodaca of Leidos, a company that has several information technology support contracts to help NASA keep the lunar enterprise going. The conversation took place before Nate, a Leidos vice president and division

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21:20

What to do about election process worries tha...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/29

You might have heard, mid-term elections are only a few months off. Questions persist about the security and integrity of the ballot-casting and counting process. For what the threats actually are and what officials can to do mitigate them, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Mike Hamilton, chief information security officer at Critical Insight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:15

How its managers say the IRS will deal with the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/29

The latest tax-and-spending bill provides nearly $80 billion for the IRS. But that's over 10 years. More than half of the money is designated for enforcement, but there's also a few billion for what the bill calls taxpayer services. For with what they're anticipating, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Chad Hooper, the president of the IRS centered Professional Managers Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:42

DHS eyes plan to use self-assessments to evaluate...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/29

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing a rule to ensure contractors are meeting cybersecurity requirements, with DHS touting a process for evaluating its vendor base through self-assessments rather than relying on a third-party certification program like the Pentagon.DHS has spent the past year conducting multiple “pathfinders” to test out a method for ensuring companies are meeting cyber hygiene clauses in their contracts. DHS issued a self-assessment questionnaire to a subset of its

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19:41

DoD unveils plan to better brain health of service...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/29

After years of work and study, the Defense Department is finally releasing a cohesive action plan for all military services to follow regarding brain health and traumatic brain injuries.Medical professionals in the military have previously described the plan as a “paradigm shift” in the way the Pentagon approached brain health. The plan moves the military away from the old way of addressing dangerous impacts to the head as single, standalone incidents and instead considers those exposures in a broad

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18:41

DoD to release, start implementing new zero trust...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/26

The Defense Department is ready to get serious about transitioning its network defenses to zero trust principles. The Pentagon expects to release a formal zero trust strategy by mid-September, wants to have an enterprise-wide zero trust implementation in place by 2027, and is already in talks with commercial providers about how to implement zero trust in the cloud. Last year’s White House executive order on cybersecurity told all federal agencies to draw up plans to move to a zero trust

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20:13

Veterans express displeasure at the way things came...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/26

The debates continue over the abrupt departure of American forces from Afghanistan a year ago. It's a done deal, but it still rankles many veterans of the warns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Federal Drive host Tom Temin got one view about this from Cole Lyle, the executive director of the veteran advocacy group Mission Role Call. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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22:20

Veterans Affairs takes a new step towards improving...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/26

Sometimes the key to what you want is right under that flowerpot on your windowsill. Many agencies are working to improve customer experience. An important element of that is convenience in identification and verification of those accessing digital services. Now the Veterans Affairs Department has expanded its use of login.gov. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke about all of this and more with John Rahagi, the VA's digital services expert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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20:32

Can government go green without overhauling...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/26

Procurement power is a major pillar of the Biden administration’s Federal Sustainability Plan. As the country’s single biggest landlord and one of its largest energy consumers, the federal government’s purchasing power can either drive markets toward energy efficient innovation, or maintain the status quo. Dorothy Robyn has worked at the two largest real property holders in federal government, as a former commissioner of the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration, and as a

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20:58

Everybody talks customer experience. This Veterans...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

The Veterans Affairs Department has been concentrating on improving service to its veteran constituents. And its had some success. Surveys show a 24% jump in trust in VA over the past few years. One career manager who gets a lot of the credit is the VA's deputy chief veterans experience officer. For her work, Barbara Morton is a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:19

Inspectors General may finally be getting some of the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

Federal inspectors general are a vital conduits to let Congress and the rest of us know when agencies or public officials have taken a wrong turn. But their work is quite a bit less useful when no one can read it. The House has included several measures intended to increase I-G transparency in its versions of the 2023 appropriations bills, many of them at the urging of the Project on Government Oversight. Joanna Derman is a policy analyst at POGO. She talked with Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu

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22:48

Electric cars seem to be on the near horizon, but...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

It’s probably going to be a while before you get on a commercial aircraft that runs on renewable energy instead of jet fuel. But getting the infrastructure in place to make that sort of thing happen takes a lot of planning, which is why we have organizations like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. N-REL has been working on a study that tries to map out the ways in which land-based aviation infrastructure will need to change to make concepts like electric-powered aircraft practical. Scott Cary

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22:48

Electric cars seem to be on the near horizon, but...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

It’s probably going to be a while before you get on a commercial aircraft that runs on renewable energy instead of jet fuel. But getting the infrastructure in place to make that sort of thing happen takes a lot of planning, which is why we have organizations like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. N-REL has been working on a study that tries to map out the ways in which land-based aviation infrastructure will need to change to make concepts like electric-powered aircraft practical. Scott Cary

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