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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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15:47

Imagine an award program where people can nominate...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/27

The Postal Service handed out millions of dollars in employee awards in a program that lacked solid controls. People nominated one another and then voted on whether they got the money. A few people even approved their own bonuses. For more, the Federal Drive spoke with the deputy assistant inspector general for audit, Wilvia Espinoza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:56

CDAO sees contracting as a way to build innovation

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/27

The Defense Department recently brought the chief data and artificial intelligence office into full operating capability. It'll focus on advanced technologies and working fast. Not just the technologies need to move fast. Acquisition and contracting also have to keep pace with the office’s needs. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione talked about this with with procurement analyst Bonnie Evangelista, and contracting chief Kathrine Crompton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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15:49

USCIS sets ambitious hiring, processing goals to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/27

The ombudsman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has one central focus of this year’s annual report to Congress: Reducing the backlog of immigration cases. As of March, there were nearly 5.2 million cases in the backlog, meaning cases sitting for than the target processing time. Some eight and a half million cases are actually pending. Even after hiring freezes ended and USCIS avoided furloughs during the pandemic, the agency still struggles to hire and train enough adjudicators to get

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16:27

Some things to think about during Post Traumatic...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/24

June is PTSD awareness month. And according to our next guest, managing the risk factors stemming from military-connected PTSD isn’t just a job for the Defense Department and the VA. Dr. Ken Marfilius is a former Air Force clinical social worker and mental health therapist. He’s now an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. He talked with Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu about the it-takes-a-village” approach to mental wellness in the military and veteran population. Learn more

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24:10

How Congress is forcing agencies to confront...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/24

At least some members of Congress are pushing for telework to become a big and permanent feature of federal employment. The latest gambit is a bill that requires agencies to gather statistics about telework, and prevent them from restricting it. It's called the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act. We get more now from one of its sponsors, Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Mary.). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:58

For OPM’s Ahuja, ‘strong human capital leadership’...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/24

The Office of Personnel Management has reached a milestone it hasn't seen since 2015. OPM Director Kiran Ahuja just hit one year in office as agency head. Ahuja has made progress in her position -- for example, giving feds time off to vote and bringing back the Presidential Rank Awards after a year's hiatus. But the agency is hitting a few bumps in the road, too. Many feds, for example, shared in the 2021 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey that they're not happy with return to office plans. Federal

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18:18

CISA advisors recommend agency cut onboarding time to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/24

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency needs to move with more speed and urgency when it comes to talent management. That’s the conclusion of CISA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee. CISA is now considering a suite of recommendations from the committee on recruiting and hiring. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:20

How one federal executive swung into action when a...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/23

Sometimes nations declare war on themselves. When a civil war broke out in Ethiopia back in 2020, my next guest worked overtime to ensure humanitarian aid got to those who we desperate for it, and to try and mitigate some of the human rights abuses. Now he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program. He's the director of the Office of East African Affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Jonathan Dworken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:44

A NASA trailblazer finds herself on a new trajectory

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/23

Holly Ridings, the first female chief of NASA’s flight directors, will now help lead the agency’s Gateway Program, an international partnership to establish humanity’s first space station around the Moon. In this new role, Ridings will serve as the deputy program manager. She will lead teams to build and launch NASA’s foundational infrastructure in deep space. Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Ridings about what that entails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:13

Meet the new CEO of AmeriCorps

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/23

AmericaCorps is the government's premier agency for engaging volunteers of all ages to help with the nation's pressing problems. At the end of last year, it got an energetic new CEO when the Senate confirmed Michael Smith, who the Federal Drive had a chance to catch up with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:45

IRS expects to finish processing 2021 tax return...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/23

Looking to settle your debts to the IRS, without an endless wait over the phone? There’s a bot for that. The IRS is now automating more of its call volume through automation, giving its call-center employees more time to address complex requests from taxpayers. The IRS is also rounding the corner on its pandemic-era backlog of tax returns. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman has the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:22

Air Force thinking of new ways to handle ‘black swan’...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/22

The Air Force has seen its fair share of curveballs when it comes to budget and acquisition. Between inflation, the war in Ukraine, and COVID, the service is trying to ensure the industry supply chains stays solid and that acquisition timelines don’t slip. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione discussed some of those issues with the service’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting, Major General Cameron Holt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:01

OASIS+ or OASIS-Plus? Either way, GSA puts the next...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/22

The General Services Administration reach a critical milestone last week. It chose a name for its new services multiple award contract. In his weekly reporter's notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about why the new name, OASIS-Plus, takes all the fun out of government contracting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:22

The General Services administration is downright...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/22

It's official, more or less. The General Services Administration is bending nearly all of its efforts towards the idea of customer experience. That's what Federal Acquisition Commissioner Tom Howder told the Coalition for Government Procurement the other day. What does that mean for contractors? We turn to federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:41

A new look at an old problem: the Pentagon's weapons...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/22

The Government Accountability Office is out with its latest assessment of the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons programs. It’s the 20th annual edition. GAO says it’s seen some improvement in DoD’s management of major acquisition programs during that time, but cost and schedule growth are still huge problems. And while every program’s unique, one common theme is that DoD tends to commit itself to big systems before it has enough information about technology risks and cost estimates. Shelby Oakley is

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18:30

Why the Army Corps of Engineers matches engineering...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/22

The federal government has world-class engineering expertise in its ranks. The same is true of public health expertise. What it doesn’t have is a standing capability to fuse those disciplines together with behavioral science to help inform agencies’ response to crises. At least, until now. A brand new organization called the Engineering for Public Health and Human Factors Center — or EPH — is now up and running within the Army Corps of Engineers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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17:16

You haven't even taken summer vacation yet and...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/21

Appropriators on Capitol Hill have a big week this week, the first official week of summer. For one thing, House members are marking up the 20-23 Defense budget and taking up the defense authorization bill. The Federal Drive got the latest from WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:37

How contractors use FOIA to spy on one another

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/21

The Freedom of Information Act might be best known as a way for journalists and public interest groups to get information about the operations of government. But it can also be a tool for companies to get confidential information about their competitors. Safeguarding that information has gotten more complicated in the last few years, because the state of the law around the FOIA exemption that applies to things like trade secrets is in flux. Nathan Castellano is special counsel in the government

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13:53

The Air Force builds a virtual test range for...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/21

When it comes to directed energy technologies like lasers and microwave weapons, the Air Force doesn’t have anything that’s quite ready to deploy on a fighter jet. But a new modeling and simulation facility at Kirtland Air Force base is going to try to make sure pilots are ready to use them once they are. The Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded a 10-year, $80 million contract to build a new “virtual range” for directed energy weapons. To learn more, Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu talked

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15:06

Lead agency for security clearance reform expands...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/06/21

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is overhauling the security clearance process under an initiative called Trusted Workforce 2.0. The reform effort promises to streamline background investigations using automation and other new processes. For the latest, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday spoke with the assistant director of vetting risk operations at DCSA, Heather Green. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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