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DISA's PEO for transport, which is essentially the internet for the Defense Department, is looking for capabilities that have lifespan standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin A look at the origins of the Defense Innovation Unit Crowdstrike has a lot to teach about routine system maintenance The IRS recovered $1 billion in overdue taxes, will that save its future funding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Drew Mykelgard, the deputy federal chief information officer at OMB, said the updated FedRAMP policy pushes for more automation, reciprocity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It sounds simple, but it's taken a while to get to the realization. For an agency to be effective, it needs the right amount of people and resources. The most recent example is the success the IRS has been seeing. As reported by Federal News Network, the agency recently announced it had collected $1 billion in overdue tax revenue, after launching a crackdown on millionaires not paying what they owe. Will it be enough evidence though to secure the IRS with the proper funding it needs going forward? For more on this, Federal News Network executive producer Eric White spoke to Bob Tobias, former professor in the Key Executive Leadership program at American University and a former federal union president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The recent Crowdstrike outage has shown everything that can go wrong when doing a simple update a system that has a role to play in many systems and critical infrastructures. Routine maintenance is obviously a requirement for these mega platforms, but how they can be done without causing major disruptions? To find out more, Federal News Network executive producer Eric White spoke to Michael Edenzon, co-founder and CEO for the software development firm Fianu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A new book details the beginning days of the Defense Innovation Unit. Written by two of the agency's early leaders, Raj Shah and Chris Kirchhoff, Unit X tells the story of those who were there to establish DIU, which acts as a go between silicon valley and the Pentagon. One of the main characters is Lauren Dailey, who at the time was DIU's director of acquisitions, where she discovered how the agency could construct contracts that would be more attractive to tech firms. Federal News Network's executive producer recently had the chance to speak with her about it and how everything came together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin: OPM is taking another bite at the retirement systems modernization apple VA may be lacking a little bit of follow through when it comes to training claims processors More needs doing to find Vietnam vets who originally had their agent orange claims denied Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a budget shortfall. A big one. Officials say the department is on track to spend 3 billion dollars more than Congress allocated for this year. And there’s another projected shortfall of 12-billion dollars next year. V-A leaders say the root cause is more demand for services from veterans, but lawmakers think expenses surrounding the department’s new electronic health record are partly to blame too. Details now from Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Agencies just passed the deadline for only managing their records in an electronic format. But there are some exceptions to that June 30 deadline. At the same time, agencies are confronting challenges with a growing tide of digital records. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, recently spoke with the director of records management policy and outreach at the National Archives and Records Administration, Lisa Haralampus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While Veterans Affairs has been trending in the right direction on some metrics, the failures are still magnified due to the subject matter. A recent inspector general report found VA Failed to identify Tens of Thousands of Vietnam Veterans who could qualify for retroactive benefits. To get some reaction and legal knowledge about what is required of the agency, Federal News Network executive producer Eric White welcomes Bart Stichman, Co-Founder and Special Counsel for the National Veterans Legal Services Program on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Veterans Affairs Department recently announced that three-quarters of the way through the fiscal year, it has granted benefits to 1.1 million veterans and their survivors, an all-time record. However there is always room for improvement, especially when you're talking about providing for our nation's veterans. The Government Accountability Office recently checked back in on how VA is training its claim processors. To learn more about what they found, Federal News Network executive producer Eric White spoke with Elizabeth Curda, Director of GAO’s Education, Workforce, and Income Security team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The deadline for agencies to submit digitized records for archiving and preservation by the National Archives and Records Administration or NARA came and went earlier this summer. For an update on dealing with modern textual records and other types, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with two people from NARA, the director of Records Management Policy and Outreach and Lisa Haralampus, the director of digitization for the Office of Research Services. Denise Henderson, whom you hear first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin: The Marshals Service has trouble managing detention This HHS operative is taking on high and complicated hospital bills Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Other transaction agreements or OTAs are not as protest proof as once thought. A recent decision by the Court of Federal Claims gives contractors a more specific path to file complaints over these non-typical federal buying efforts. For more on what the court’s decision means for the future of OTAs, Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Office of Personnel Management is taking steps to address pay inequity in the federal workforce. The government’s pay gap between men and women isn’t as big as the private sector’s. But OPM has some new instructions for agencies to try to bring the federal pay gap down to zero. Joining the Federal Drive with more, Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This guest is 35 years old and joined federal service only three years ago. But she's having a big impact in a lot of ways having to do with health care delivery. She's the chief digital strategy officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … and a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. Andrea Fletcher joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Bureau of Prisons may operate federal incarceration facilities, but the Marshals Service also detains people. Nearly 60 thousand every day. So it has to partner with jail operators, both governmental and private. The Government Accountability Office has found, the Marshals Service need to improve its oversight of these facilities. More now from the G-A-O's acting director of homeland security and justice issues, Derrick Collins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A worldwide IT outage knocked millions of Microsoft users offline last week, and also tripped up several federal agencies. Now the White House is assessing the damage, while some members of Congress say the incident highlights the risks of IT consolidation. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joined the Federal Drive with the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Large portions of the State Department’s workforce are relatively new on the job, and didn’t get the traditional onboarding experience. About 20% of the Foreign Service and 30% of its civil service employees were hired since March 2020. Many of them started the job remotely, and missed out on core on-the-job training because of the pandemic. Now the State Department is taking a closer look at those training gaps, and helping its workforce brush on emerging fields like AI. For a closer look at all of this, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman spoke with the director general of the Foreign Service and director of the Bureau of Global Talent Management, Marcia Bernicat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As with every year, hundreds of amendments are introduced to both the Senate and House version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Obviously not all of them make it, but they are debated nonetheless. To find out what amendments those on the industry side are keyed in on, Federal News Network Executive producer Eric White spoke to David Berteau, President and CEO of the Professional Services Council on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Even if you're not a space geek, you may have heard of the moons Europa and Enceladus, both which orbit Jupiter and Saturn respectively. They're famous for their potential ability to host the building blocks of life beyond Earth. Well new research from NASA shows that those building blocks may not to hard to find were we ever to send a probe to do some digging around. Alexander Pavlov is a NASA Space Scientist who lead this research, and he joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Earlier this month, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Aviation Subcommittee held a hearing on maintaining a steady flow of workers for the U.S. air traffic control system. One of those to testify David Spero, national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists. His message? Congress needs to engage with the Federal Aviation Administration to address the severe staffing shortages. Federal News Network Executive producer Eric White spoke to Mr. Spero on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It has been a major policy initiative of the Biden administration to get more Americans and agencies utilizing electric vehicles. Well, how about the agency that probably has the largest amount of vehicles in its garage? The Postal Service is in the process of electrifying its fleet. To do that though, there needs to be the infrastructure to support them once they do get out there. To get an update on where things currently stand, we welcome to the program Amanda Stafford, she's Deputy Assistant Inspector General for the USPS' IG office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Been a hectic week on the political side of government. The 2024 election is in full swing as one party hosts its convention, and with an attempt on a candidate's life, you know members of Congress are going have questions for the agencies in charge of protection. Meanwhile, there's other legislation that could have an impact on other federal activities. To help break it all down, we welcome Deputy News Director Loren Duggan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Defense Innovation Board wants the Pentagon to reshuffle its acquisition shop again. "It's too fragmented," Charles Phillips said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If the U.S. military winds up in a war that does damage to its equipment, by and large, the repairs would have to be done back in the continental U.S. Not only does the round trip take a long time, many of those stateside shipyards and depots are overtaxed even in peacetime. That’s one reason DoD wants to move more of its sustainment operations overseas. It’s part of what officials are calling the Regional Sustainment Framework. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Defense Information Systems Agency's transport office essentially provides the internet to the Defense Department. An like any other provider, people take it for granted until something goes wrong. For what the office has been up to, Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis checked in with director Chris Paczkowski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One measure of a career is the financial remuneration and whether your money and health needs are taken care of. My next guest, a federal retiree, analyzed the question of whether he was right to switch from the private sector to federal. Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the details, Abe Grungold, owner of A-G Financial Services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
