Federal Drive with Tom Temin

Out of pocket costs are going up quite a bit next year for enrollees in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. Premiums are rising by an average of 13.5% beginning in January. But there's more to the story for how those premium rates get put together, along with a few strategies for dealing with rising prices, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got more from the Office of Personnel Management. Associate Director of healthcare and insurance, Laurie Bodenheimer.

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A nine year old lawsuit claiming the Secret Service has not paid the full amount of overtime owed to its agents is one step closer to resolution. The suit focused on an Office of Personnel Management policy that Secret service agents had to work two consecutive hours of unscheduled extra duty to receive overtime pay. But that policy has been overturned, and attorneys representing Secret Service are looking for a class action settlement. For more on the case, Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke with a partner at Clark Hill that's representing the agents, Nicholas Wieczorek.

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The White House has issued two long, detailed policies for development use of artificial intelligence. One last year and one last month. That's fine, the U.S. should lead and should set an example of ethical use of this technology. My next guest cautions, with federal and state-level laws and regulations aimed at AI, the whole industry could end up hobbled. The head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, Neil Chilson, joins me now.

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The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is seeking a simple but tricky-to-execute approach to cybersecurity. It would essentially break software into small pieces that are hard for hackers to access. Here with the details, the program manager in DARPA's Information Innovation Office, Howard Shrobe.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The Space Development Agency is pushing back the launch of its first group of low Earth orbit satellites. Now this delay highlights the difficulties the agency has had in transitioning from using a few big satellites to a network of smaller and cheaper ones. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis joins us with the latest.

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The Pentagon is moving closer to kicking off its long awaited cyber security Maturity Model certification program. Small business advocates, though, are still worried about the high cost of CMMC compliance. Well, now there's a draft legislation coming from Capitol Hill to provide some smaller companies with a CMMC tax credit. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with the latest.

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The stock market continues to defy logic, something it seems to do best. Now some 117 thousand federal employees and retirees have Thrift Savings Plan accounts worth more than a million dollars. There ought to be many more. At least, that's what federal retiree and financial advisor Abe Grungold says. He joins me now.

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Nobody's in favor of corruption, except maybe the corrupt. When corruption comes to light, it's often the Justice Department that take the lede. My next guest leads a non-profit that works anti-fraud at the front end by supporting whistleblowers. She's the president and CEO of the Anti-Fraud Coalition, Jacklyn DeMar

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The first woman to direct the Transportation Department's Volpe Center recently retired. A 20-year federal employees, she worked an earlier 20 years for the Massachusetts Port Authority. Now she's among the new inductees to the National Academy of Public Administration. Joining me with a recap, Anne Aylward.

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