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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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16:09

USDA’s new answer to cutting food waste by 50%: Jelly...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/19

Halfway through an interagency goal to reduce food waste, the Department of Agriculture may have found the answer in a new way to keep food fresh. An investment from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is paving the way for a new type of ice cube to revolutionize how industries and individuals keep food cold and curb food waste. In 2015, the USDA, along with the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration, set the country’s first-ever food loss and waste

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14:03

Deputy US CTO Lynne Parker, leading federal AI...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/19

A top artificial intelligence expert in the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations is leaving government. Lynne Parker, the deputy U.S. chief technology officer and director of the White House’s National AI Initiative Office, is returning to academia after seven years of federal service. Parker helped stand up the National AI Initiative Office last year, meant to help put federal AI research and development resources in the hands of more industry and academic partners. She’s also led efforts to

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19:35

Voice of America acting director gets Sammies nod for...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/18

You might say Voice of America was in turmoil. Big disagreements between agency staff and the Trump administration meant people were leaving, put on leave, or under investigation. A series of leaders had come and gone for several years. A day after the Biden administration started, it appointed Yolanda Lopez -- who had been removed from her job as news director only a week earlier -- as acting VOA director. Since then, employee engagement scores rose 13 points from below average to above average

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17:26

Health providers and electronic medical records...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/18

Federal agencies’ electronic medical records are about to get a lot more interoperable with private sector health providers. Agencies like DoD and VA are already members of eHealth Exchange, the country’s biggest health information exchange network. But they’ve now reached legal agreements that will let them start using a much broader health interoperability framework. That’ll add another 20 networks to the federal interoperability picture. Alan Swenson is executive director of Carequality, the

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18:09

Roadmaps that lead to information, then to warfighting

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/18

It’s been six years since DoD published its first-ever roadmap to build the “information environment” into its warfighting strategies. In the meantime, Congress has been pushing the department to add more details to what “operations in the information environment,” or OIE, really means. But in the meantime, the concept has had a real impact on DoD’s spending behavior. Robert Beuerlein is a recently-retired Army information warfare officer, now a principal consultant at Frost and Sullivan. He talked

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13:46

Task force eases COVID-19 screening guidance at...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/18

Agencies have a new deadline to ease some of their screening testing restrictions and COVID-19 protocols. As soon as possible, but no later than Aug. 22, agencies must stop certain screening testing programs that differentiate based on a visitor’s vaccination status, the Safer Federal Workforce task force said in updated guidance on Aug. 11. Agencies can still continue to conduct any screening testing that’s consistent regardless of an individual’s vaccination status. But agencies should wait for

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16:29

How one canceled federal employee unions is trying to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/17

Back in January, the union that represents immigration judges ceased to exist, at least for contract bargaining purposes. The Federal Labor Relations Authority, then dominated by a majority of Trump appointees, determined the judges are actually management employees, and not eligible for union representation. But the board’s leadership has turned over since then. The National Association of Immigration Judges is now trying to get re-recognized as a federal union. The effort has two tracks. One is

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16:48

Direct College Student Loans cost the U.S. Government...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/17

Back in the mid ‘90s, when the Education Department first started its current Direct Loan program for college students, the program was expected to turn a profit for the U.S. Treasury. The initial estimates were that it would bring in $114 billion over the next quarter century. Now that were here, that estimate turns out to be wrong...way wrong. The Government Accountability Office discovered the program has actually cost the government $197 billion. The reasons for that giant difference are pretty

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17:02

Federal money is flowing to support local jobs creation

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/17

A variety of local governments and non-profits recently received workforce training federal grants. The Economic Development Administration, part of the Commerce Department, awarded the grants under a program called, "The Good Jobs Challenge." The goal is to create job opportunities for 50,000 people. To find out how the program works, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Michele Chang, the deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Learn more about

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15:17

Two new innovation challenges emerge in DoD, as the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/17

Innovation challenges were once a budding idea within the Defense Department, a fun way to listen to ideas within a community and award some cash for cool products that could help agencies. But now, after changes to sexual assault and harassment policies, an app that helps soldiers book ranges, aids for loading ammunition and gadgets to save energy, it seems like Shark Tank-like innovation challenges and the products they produce are here stay. There’s Spark Tank, STEAM Tank, the Maneuver Innovation

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18:37

(Extended version) The Navy's sea mission doesn't...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

You might not think of the Navy as being in the space business. Yet the Naval Research Laboratory has a mission that spans pretty much every domain from underwater to space. In fact, there's a new director of the Lab's Naval Center for Space Technology. Steven Meier talked with Federal Drive host Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:55

Your (copy) right to compensation

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

Usually, when people make something creative – a book, a photograph, a website – the person who made it owns the copyright, and anyone who wants to use that work needs to negotiate the rights to use it. That’s the general rule. But general rules don’t apply all the time, which is why we have lawyers. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board deals with a special part of copyright law where Congress has said rightsholders don’t actually have a choice over whether their works can be used, but they do need to

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10:27

There's a lot of space junk out there

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

Everybody’s heard the term “space junk.” You’re probably aware there’s a bunch of it and that it’s a risk to satellites. The Space Force tracks tens of thousands of pieces of debris every day, but that’s only the big stuff. There are an estimated 100 million pieces of smaller bits – ten centimeters or less – that we can’t see from Earth with current technology. But just because they’re small doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous, Alexis Truitt, program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research

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11:04

The Navy's sea mission doesn't keep it out of the...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

You might not think of the Navy as being in the space business. Yet the Naval Research Laboratory has a mission that spans pretty much every domain from underwater to space. In fact, there's a new director of the Lab's Naval Center for Space Technology. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with that man: Steven Meier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:33

Three reasons why organizational conflict of interest...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

Concerns about organizational conflicts of interest among vendors providing, for instance, technology planning services and technology implementation services, is as old as federal acquisition itself. But over the last few weeks, OCI has received more attention and consideration among agencies, and it should be seen as a warning sign to batten down those OCI hatches. First, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members introduced the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of

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8:19

IRS hits $80 billion jackpot, now embarks on hiring...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/16

The IRS is getting its shot to rebuild its workforce and bring its IT into the 21st century, after more than a decade of belt-tightening. The House on Friday passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk. The $740 billion spending bill allows a broad swath of federal agencies to staff up over the next decade, but none will go through the kind of transformation the IRS will face. The bill gives the IRS $80 billion over the next 10 years, with more than half that

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8:09

VA set to grow its health care workforce with new pay...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/15

A new law sets the stage for a larger health care workforce at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Honoring Our PACT Act gives VA the resources it needs to staff up its health care workforce to treat post-9/11 combat veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service. President Joe Biden said VA will be able to move more quickly to determine a veteran’s illness and related military service. For a look at what this means for VA employees, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman joined

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8:27

An update on Capitol Hill with WTOP's Mitchell Miller

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/15

After months of back and forth, the legislation that eventually came to be known as the Inflation Reduction Act is a done deal. The House passed the huge reconciliation bill on Friday afternoon on a party line vote. And though it addresses a wide variety of Democrats’ spending priorities over the next decade, Congress still hasn’t dealt with the budget for next year – the fiscal year that starts just a little over six weeks from now. Federal News Network Deputy Editor Jared Serbut talked about the

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13:03

Trust in government continues to decline

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/15

Public polling shows a continuing decline in Americans’ trust in government. There are obviously a lot of factors behind that – and a lot of noise in the data – but one indicator is the number of Americans who’d urge their kids to pursue a government career. It was 56% as recently as 2010. This year, it’s down to 39%. Federal Drive Deputy Editor Jared Serbu talked about this with Paul Light , a nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and a professor of public

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7:41

OMB looking for budgets that are data driven

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/08/15

The Office of Management and Budget wants next year’s federal agency budget submissions to be more data driven than they’ve been in past years. Larry Allen, the president of Allen Federal Business Partners, said that is a fine in principle, but the whole idea rests on the notion that agencies have high-quality data to support their programs in the first place. Mr. Allen talked about this with Federal News Network Deputy Editor Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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