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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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20:19

An update on NBIS' effort to replace legacy systems

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

The Pentagon is rolling out new software that underpins the future of security clearance investigations and personnel vetting. The National Background Investigations Services, or NBIS, is expected to fully replace a suite of legacy systems by next year. For the latest, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, spoke with the executive program manager for NBIS at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Jeff Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:11

OPM pushing people from underserved communities to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/25

Part of the Office of Personnel Management's work to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, hinges on encouraging individuals from underserved communities to join the federal workforce. At a White House summit in Atlanta this week, OPM's new Deputy Chief of Staff Khalilah Harris highlighted the Biden administration's efforts to connect local community members directly with federal leaders and resources. Harris is calling on members of diverse communities to look and apply for

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19:20

Government be warned: Contractors do not have to keep...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/24

The Defense Contract Audit Agency or DCAA, found something out the hard way. If it takes to long to audit cost reimbursement support documents held by contractors, tough. The government is still responsible for the costs. A recent Armed Services Contract Board of Appeals delivered that outcome in a case that Federal Drive host Tom Temin discussed with Zach Prince, a partner at Smith Pachter McWhorter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:20

Government be warned: Contractors do not have to keep...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/24

The Defense Contract Audit Agency or DCAA, found something out the hard way. If it takes to long to audit cost reimbursement support documents held by contractors, tough. The government is still responsible for the costs. A recent Armed Services Contract Board of Appeals delivered that outcome in a case that Federal Drive host Tom Temin discussed with Zach Prince, a partner at Smith Pachter McWhorter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:23

Advice from the GAO on how to deal with the coming CR...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/24

Congress has managed to appropriate $6 trillion or $7 trillion for this and that in the past few years. But it's never been able to pass a regular federal budget on time. The upcoming September 30 deadline will bring another Continuing Resolution. CRs do not have to spoil agency planning. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about that with Jeff Arkin, the director of strategic issues at the Government Accountability Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:35

Two American generals talk about the Sister Rivers...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/24

The Mississippi River has two things most rivers lack: it's got its very own commission, established by Congress in 1879. And it has a sister river: the Mekong of Vietnam and Cambodia fame. The Mekong also has a four-nation Commission that also includes Laos and Thailand. Under the auspices of the State Department, since 2010 the two river commissions have had a memorandum of understanding to work together. The current president of the Mississippi River Commission is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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19:24

New pilot program will give Army Guard members...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/24

The Army National Guard is embarking on a new pilot program to provide service members with childcare for their weekend drill sessions.The program will start in September in six states: Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Washington State, Virginia and Ohio. The care will be free and take in children from six weeks to 12 years of age. The National Guard will pair with Child Care Aware of America, a not-for-profit organization focused on affordable childcare, to find available providers. Learn

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19:57

The suspension, debarment process could be improved,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/23

The number of contractors suspended and debarred hit a 12-year high in 2014 with 1,929 vendors or executives debarred and another 1,009 suspended from federal acquisition. Compare those numbers to what the Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee reported in its fiscal 2020 report released earlier this year: 1,256 companies or executives debarred and 415 suspended. That’s a 34% drop in the number of debarments and a 59% reduction in the number of suspensions. Learn more about your ad choices

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18:53

Federal unions have a way to locate unrepresented...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/23

The Office of Personnel Management has offered some extra help to federal unions looking to add eligible employees to their membership rosters. Federal unions have tools available in FedScope, OPM’s online federal employee database, to identify which agencies have the largest amounts of unrepresented workers, said Tim Curry, OPM’s deputy associate director for accountability and workforce relations, in an email obtained by Federal News Network. “OPM is assessing ways to improve, consistent with

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19:36

Contractors say this latest labor proposal aims to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/23

Services contractors see a lot of questionable policy coming: An executive order on a new contractor keeping the employees of the displaced incumbent. Project labor agreements on major construction is another. For the latest reaction on all this, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Stephanie Kostro, the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:51

The Center for Data Innovation regarding the AI...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/23

From federal policymakers to agency implementers, we’ve heard a ton of talk about artificial intelligence. But neither group has done nearly everything it’s said it wants to do to promote effective uses of AI. That’s one takeaway from a new AI report card from the Information Technology Innovation Foundation. Hodan Omaar is a policy analyst who developed the report card for ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation. She talked about some of the findings with Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu. Learn more

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24:18

At Veterans Affairs, they're looking at treating some...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/23

You might have thought psychedelic drugs want away with the Woodstock generation. But Veterans Affairs researchers are studying the question of whether psychedelics can be effective treatments for certain mental disorders. For details Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke Dr. Rachel Yeduda, the mental health director at the James Peters medical center in the Bronx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:29

Army once again delays newest release of its pay and...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/22

Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army is supposed to usher in a new era of benefits management for the service. However, its rollout has been plagued by delays over the last year. The Army recently decided to push back the latest release of the program again. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione is here to give us more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:08

Advice for how the government can confront the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/22

WWW stands for worldwide web. But the internet as envisioned in the early 1990s has devolved into fragments. Foreign actors in many sections of the internet actively seek to deny the United States and its allies free use of the internet. They even try to foster civil unrest and violence. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with someone who said this reality ought to be more baked into U.S. foreign policy. He was part of a task force looking at this by the Council on Foreign Relations, former CIA

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15:08

There's no 2023 budget, but lots of new money is...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/22

The latest spending bill from Congress is not the regular appropriations for fiscal 2023. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act famously showers more than $80 billion on the IRS over 10 years. But there's more. To get a rundown, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government congressional reporter Jack Fitzpatrick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:04

A small team of federal investigators is still at...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/22

The infamous collapse of the Florida condominium tower made millions nervous about their own buildings. The case isn't over. Since the June, 2021 tragedy, a team from the National Construction Safety Team at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology has been on the case. It preserved critical parts of the building in a secure warehouse. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with a member of the NIST team, the director of disaster and failure studies, Tanya Brown-Giammanco. Learn more about

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15:14

Acquisition workers now have a much easier path to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/22

Earlier this summer, the federal civilian contracting community all went back to zero. That is, zero hours of training. But don’t worry, that actually was a good thing because the Federal Acquisition Institute and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy shut down a legacy training system and placed the finishing touches on its new one. The move away from the Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System (FAITAS) and to a commercial system from Cornerstone OnDemand, which started in June

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14:07

One big lesson from the COVID pandemic

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/19

One big lesson from the COVID pandemic: you need solid data to mount an effective response. And that was one of the CDC’s biggest challenges in the early days of COVID-19. Things we know now – like the fact that minority communities were disproportionally impacted – were tough to nail down at the time. That’s because CDC had pretty limited demographic and socioeconomic data on the virus’s impacts. The Health and Human Services Inspector General found the CDC did manage to fill in some those data

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22:29

The GPO resets with a new five-year strategy

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/19

A reskilled workforce and a continuing move toward a digital future are among the strategic imperatives laid out by the Government Publishing Office. GPO's new, five-year plan has a theme: America Informed. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talk about the details with GPO director Hugh Halpern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:33

Army nearly ready to move thousands of users to BYOD,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/19

The Army is just weeks away from finally letting a significant cadre of soldiers and employees use personal mobile devices to connect to government systems. It’s part of a much larger endeavor to create a “unified network” that relies much more heavily on cloud technologies, zero trust principles and commercial solutions.The Army has been engaged in serious testing of technologies to underpin a bring-your-own-device strategy (BYOD) since at least last year. Now, officials are ready to roll it out to

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