An influential Senator wants to remake the intelligence community starting at the top. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton says the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has become too bloated. He plans to work with the Trump administration to put a cap on the size of ODNI. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday has the latest.

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The National Academy of Public Administration has published what it calls a field guide for using federal grants. Not just any grants though. It's about government-to-government grants so state, local and tribal governments can build better data systems. The idea is, better data management and analysis can lead to better programs. We get more now from the field guide's principal authors, Pari Sabety, an economic stability program advisor at U.S. Digital Response and Kathy Stack, a senior policy fellow at Yale University.

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Time's almost up for federal employees to accept that offer from the Office of Personnel Management. Resign now and go on paid administrative leave until October, or stay and risk non voluntary reduction in force, you're fired. OPM sent out its offer government wide, but agencies are giving their employees some additional details now. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the latest.

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Federal financial management needs urgent attention. They're such a mess that the Government Accountability Office once again is unable to provide an opinion on whether government financial statements are reliable. It's an old problem but becomes more urgent as the financial situation becomes less and less sustainable. We get the latest from the GAO's director of financial management and assurance issues, Dawn Simpson.

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You may not be a worm in the apple of your agency. But you might be at the age and years-of-service point that retirement makes sense. The Trump administration offer of deferred resignation might actually make sense from a dollars and cents standpoint. More now from retired federal manager Abe Grungold of AG Financial Services.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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President Trump rescinded his predecessor's executive orders on artificial intelligence. That has implications for both government and industrial use of AI. At the same time he brought three tech moguls to the white house to announce a privately funded AI infrastructure. Here with analysis, the head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, Neil Chilson.

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The National Treasury Employees Union last year managed to get itself established as the bargaining unit for attorneys in two Justice Department division. The Civil Rights and Environmental and Natural Resources Division. Earlier this month, attorney Jeffrey Morrison challenged NTEU in an application for review before the Federal Labor Relations Authority. He got free help from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The Foundation president, Mark Mix, joins me now with details.

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The clock is ticking for Defense and Veterans Affairs Department employees who telework or who have remote work agreements. There's a pretty good chance agencies will not be ready when the clock strikes zero over the next month and they're supposed to get back to the office. Federal News Network's Jason Miller writes in the federal report why the return to Office push is one of those sounds good on paper, ideas not so easy to accomplish in reality, especially on the timelines these two agencies have laid out.

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The Homeland Security Department is busy these days on a lot of fronts. Among the jobs not so visible: developing the next generation passenger screening technologies. Especially as passenger traffic keeps growing. Here with a report on some developments that promise to make screening both faster and more accurate from the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, John Fortune.

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