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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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17:22

Census nominee open to post-COVID telework in bid to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/19

President Joe’s Biden’s pick to run the Census Bureau has outlined to Congress steps he's take to improve workforce morale. Robert Santos said Census employees worked under harrowing conditions last year, in some cases 80-hour work weeks to get ahead of pandemic delays. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee also heard from Biden’s pick to run Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency without a permanent director for more than four years. For more on these nominees,

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19:29

Remains of TWA Flight 800 will be scrapped after 25...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/19

Few events have affected the National Transportation Safety Board as much as TWA Flight 800. It tragically exploded 12 minutes after departing New York back in 1996. It touched off a year's long investigation and a long list of lessons learned. Now the reassembled fuselage of the doomed 747, in storage in a Virginia warehouse for the last 25-some years, is about to be scrapped. For some perspective on the significance of the moment, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the NTSB's managing

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17:03

Library of Congress has a new chief for its digital...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/19

The Library of Congress has been on a long-term quest to digitize what it can, of its collection and find new ways to connect with the public online. Now its digital innovation lab has a new chief, Nicki Saylor joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:37

COVID safety protocols, infrastructure and...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/19

Federal employees on the whole weathered the COVID pandemic pretty well, but some did get sick and some did die. Now a Senate measure would bolster safety for when feds returned to the office. WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:58

Post pandemic, it may be time to rethink your long...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/16

If the pandemic proved anything, it's never to early to start thinking about hour health care needs long term. That means now's a good time to review your needs. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked about that with the director of wealth management at the Government Employees Benefit Association, Greg Klingler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:25

Federal banking oversight agency wants banks to help...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/16

Reaching and serving people without bank accounts has been a persistent challenge for federal agencies. But on the hunch that banks themselves could helped the so-called un-banked, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has launched a tech-sprint to come up with what it describes as technologies and techniques to do just that. The Federal Drive's talked about all that with the FDIC's chief innovation officer, Sultan Meghji. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:43

5 more takeaways from VA’s EHR strategic review

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/16

The Department of Veterans Affairs wrapped up a highly-anticipated strategic review of its massive electronic health record program. But the toughest work lies ahead. VA said it will implement a new governance structure to manage the project. And it's working on new budget estimates and a deployment schedule. VA Secretary Denis McDonough said the review findings were disappointing. But he is confident VA and Cerner can correct the missteps. Congress isn't so sure. More from Federal News Network's

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9:09

New Pentagon policy to accelerate use of 3D printing...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/15

3-D printing is helping the Defense Department manufacture body armor, vehicle parts and other important stuff. But now the DoD inspector general has revealed holes in the cybersecurity of the military’s 3-D printers. For what it all means, the Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday spoke with Joe Veranese, the business systems manager at America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:45

Air Force Academy will soon start using mixed reality...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/15

Chemistry courses can get messy. Dangerous chemicals, Bunsen burners, reactions that go wrong. And anyhow, chemistry labs are hard to replicate in remote learning. That’s why the Air Force Academy is working to create a mixed-reality lab where students can experiment safely from anywhere. For more, Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione spoke with Wale Lawal, an assistant professor at the academy, and with GIGXR CEO David King Lassman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:05

The writers of this century-old law might not...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/15

People who understand the importance of the federal budgeting process recently marked the 100th anniversary of the Budget and Accounting Act. That law set-up the system by which presidents propose budgets to Congress, which then deals with them. For one view of how the contemporary reality fits how the law envisioned things, the Federal Drive's Tom Temin talked with former Congressional Budget Office director, and now president of the conservative American Action Forum, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Learn

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11:57

What it takes to keep federal technology transfer going

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/15

Federal News Network concludes its series on the Federal Lab Consortium and the business of federal tech transfer, with a look at the operational arm that keeps it all going. It's called the TechLink Center, and its housed at Montana State University. The Federal Drive's Tom Temin talk about it with the Center's new executive director Brett Cusker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:48

The Government Publishing Office is out early with a...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/15

Nearly everyone has been wondering what federal teleworking policies will look like after the pandemic. One agency has put a stake in the ground on that very question. And it's a Congressional agency: the Government Publishing Office. The Federal Drives Tom Temin got all the details from GPO director Hugh Halpern and GPO's Chief Human Capital Officer Dan Mielke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:49

Meet the federal chemist who made detecting illegal...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

One of the difficulties of controlling illegal opioids is that they come mixed with other substances. Sometimes detecting that can take hours of chemical analysis and pose dangers to law enforcement lab people. Dr. Edward Sisco is a chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, who developed a way to cut the analysis time from hours to seconds. He's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program and spoke with the Federal Drive's Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad

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12:22

For as long as there's been a Budget and Accounting...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

The Budget and Accounting Act is 100 years old, and so is the Government Accountability Office, formerly called the General Accounting Office. The agency, which is part of Congress, has come a long way from its origins in bean counting. The Federal Drive's Tom Temin got a brief overview from GAO's chief operating officer, Kate Siggerud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:26

Why being director of a consortium is more than...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

It's one thing to work on your own as an engineer. Leading a team of engineers, that's something else again. But what about running a consortium of executives from dozens of agencies, all with ideas about how to do a single function. That's what the Federal Drive's Tom Temin's guest has done for about the last year and a half: Federal Labs Consortium executive director Paul Zielinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:15

NIST scientist develops way to analyze illegal...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

One of the difficulties of controlling illegal opioids is that it comes mixed in with other substances. Sometimes detecting it can take hours of chemical analysis and pose dangers to law enforcement lab people. Edward Sisco is a chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology who developed a way to cut the analysis time from hours to seconds. For his work, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program. Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to Sisco about his work. Learn

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20:28

Recounting how far GAO has come in 100 years

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

The Budget and Accounting Act is 100 years old, and so is the Government Accountability Office — formerly called the General Accounting Office. The agency, part of Congress, has come a long way from its origins in bean counting. Federal Drive with Tom Temin got a brief overview from the GAO's Chief Operating Officer Kate Siggerud. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:34

Federal labs consortium director has to manage dozens...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

It's one thing to work on your own as an engineer, but leading a team of engineers is something else entirely. But what about running a consortium of executives from dozens of agencies, all with ideas about how to do a single function? That's what Paul Zielinski has done for about the last year and a half. For the third installment in our tech transfer series, the Federal Laboratory Consortium executive director joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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16:06

VA will miss its original 2022 deadline for resolving...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

The Department of Veterans Affairs is no longer on track to meet its goal of resolving all legacy appeals by the end of 2022. No surprise — the pandemic pushed those timelines back. Attorneys at the Board of Veterans Appeals have been teleworking and holding some hearings virtually. But delays for records and exams are slowing down progress. Now Congress wants to know what the board will do about the appeals backlog. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko had more information on Federal Drive with

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16:58

FAA, Air Force among agency CDOs trying to improve...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2021/07/14

Chief data officers help agencies use data to improve services. Several CDOs have launched training programs to improve the data literacy of people in their agencies. For two examples, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman spoke with the Deputy Chief Data Officer at the Federal Aviation Administration Marseta Dill, and Air Force CDO Eileen Vidrine, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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