The intelligence community relies on more than satellites and secretive human sources. Under a one year old open source intelligence strategy, or OSINT, spy agencies are adding more and more public and commercial data. Well now, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is making sure agencies include OSINT in their programs and budgets. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday got the rundown from the ICS OSINT executive Jason Barrett.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The Army has entered the fifth year for its Project Convergence. That's the service's annual war fighting experiment that helps inform the Pentagon's vision Joint All Domain Command and Control system (JADC2). This year is a little different. There's a part B. In addition to testing new technologies and war fighting concepts in the California desert, the Army is putting them through their paces in the place they might actually be used someday, the western pacific. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.

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Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a new element in critical infrastructure protection. They've discovered how the algorithms that rank pages in internet searches also can help planners better understand how to prevent cascading failures in electrical or water systems. Here with how it all works, PNNL mathematician Bill Kay.

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Government involvement in the market economy didn't start with the new deal. It's always been there. In today's complex world, government and industry interact in a highly complex ballet often expressed in the norms of administrative procedure. Now the Trump administration has asked agencies to eliminate 10 regulations for every new one they propose. Here with analysis, Wake Forest University law professor Sid Shapiro.

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Federal agencies have more office space than they need, and under DOGE their accelerating plans to get rid of it. It might be easy to forget those efforts actually first got momentum under the Obama administration, it established policies to freeze and then reduce the so called Federal Real Estate footprint. It's one of the significant moments the Federal News Network is looking back on as we mark our 25th anniversary. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has more.

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The stock market you may have heard has had a terrible month. While it's never a good idea to try and time the market, it might be a good time to reconsider your mix of funds. Long-time TSP multimillionaire Abe Grungold has more.

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The Defense Department continues to try and shrink its civilian workforce. This week, it reopened the deferred resignation program to nearly all civilians. As usual, employees have a short window of time to decide if they want to leave federal service. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis reports.

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Housing and Urban Development has kept up pressure on the New York City Housing Authority. The latest study by HUD's Office of Inspector General urges New York to have a more comprehensive anti-fraud program. This follows the bribery and corruption charges against 70 city housing officials last year. For more, we turn deputy IG Stephen Begg.

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