The TSP's F Fund has trailed the G Fund over the last several years. Before deciding what that means for your own investments, it helps to understand what's happening in the bond market. Here with that perspective is Arthur Stein, partner at Allworth Financial.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

• For years, the TSP's F Fund was supposed to offer a little more return in exchange for a little more risk. Lately, the results haven't looked that way.
• For years, the Pentagon has struggled to produce a clean audit. Now the push for auditability is starting to reshape how the department manages money and the systems behind it
• An organization can have security offices, monitoring programs and compliance requirements everywhere. That doesn't mean anyone is looking at the whole risk picture

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Federal employees will see a major shift in the way misconduct cases are handled. Going forward, the Merit Systems Protection Board will evaluate disciplinary actions using case-by-case criteria, rather than 12 longstanding considerations called the “Douglas factors.” The change is meant to add flexibility, but some have raised concerns that it will lead to bias or subjectivity. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman gets more from Michael Fallings, a managing partner at Tully Rinckey law firm.

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The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued another sources-sought notice for its massive migration of combatant commands’ common-use IT services to a single service provider. But the pace at which the agency is moving is raising a number of questions. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has more.

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As concerns about repeated blast exposure receive increasing attention, the Defense Department has launched several monitoring initiatives. but, GAO says the department has not fully assessed the personnel and resources needed to support those efforts into the future. Alyssa Hundrup, director on the Health Care team at the Government Accountability Office, led that review and joins me now with the details.

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CMS recently revisited a Medicare payment policy after determining that some arrangements no longer reflected the original intent of the rule. Healthcare attorney Alice Harris joins me now with a look at what the agency saw and what it decided to do about it.

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Contractors are tracking several policy decisions that could affect how they compete for work and plan for the year ahead, from small-business eligibility rules to counter-drone authorities and the budget outlook. Jim Carroll, CEO of the Professional Services Council, joins me now to explain what's getting the industry's attention. ⠀

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• Washington is making decisions now that could reshape competition, investment and planning across the federal marketplace
• A Medicare policy designed to encourage certain business arrangements ended up producing results regulators didn't intend
• The Pentagon is collecting more information about the potential effects of blast exposure. GAO says it still needs a clearer picture of the resources required to manage that effort

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The Pentagon is using military medical records to identify service members who could be subject to the administration's ban on transgender troops. Federal News Network found that the effort is reaching people who may have transitioned years ago, people who never transitioned and even some people who aren't transgender. How does the military have the ability to find people based on something that may be buried in their medical history? Federal News Network's Rachel Cohen is here to tell us more about her reporting.

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With election season accelerating, pressure is building on Congress to wrap up its work and head home. We examine what's still on the agenda and what could be pushed aside with WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller

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