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Hiring freezes, the new Career/Policy classification, freezes on this and that program. It's all causing lots of federal employees to consider retiring. My next guest warns, don't do anything in haste. It could cost you in more ways than one. Tammy Flanagan is principal at Retire Federal, and she join me now.

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The information technology age has produced many marvels. But they all need electricity. Now thanks in part to the explosion in artificial intelligence the industry is building giant complexes of datacenter. The Energy Department has taken a gander at the just how much power data centers will gobble up. Here with some of the numbers, from the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, staff scientist Arman Shehabi.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Last year was an eventful one on the cybersecurity front. Advancement of the Defense Department's new requirements for contractors. Cyber updates in the federal acquisition regulation. Artificial intelligence interacting with cyber. My next guest led a team that had put it all in on place together with a cyber forecast for 2025. Townsend Bourne is cyber team leader and a partner at the law firm Sheppard Mullin, and she joins me now.

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Agencies have a new deadline to create their lists of federal positions to potentially be converted to the Trump administration's new schedule policy, career employee classification, formerly known as Schedule F. New guidance from the Office of Personnel Management details the types of positions that might be covered, but the guidance is also likely to run into some legal battles. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman joins me with more.

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If there's one type of person every agency will need, it's cybersecurity people. As you've probably heard, there's not enough of them to go around. That's why the government's personnel shop has devised a 5-part strategy for planning, hiring and retaining cybersecurity people. But not everyone follows the strategy. More now from the director of information technology and cybersecurity at the Government Accountability Office, Dave Hinchman.

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The Food and Drug Administration sometimes uses a program called accelerated approval pathway to get new drugs to the market quickly. Such drugs may not kill you, but that may not help much either. The Health and Human Services office of inspector general has found that in a few cases, FDA officials veered off the path. We get details now from social science research analyst Ivan Troy.

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Everyone knows by now, the Trump administration is calling for teleworking federal employees to return to their offices five days a week. That's easy to say, but like many agencies, the IRS is trying to figure out just where to put them all. The IRS workforce recently grew to 100,000 more than it's had in decades. Its office space hasn't kept up. For one view on how to cope Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke with the executive director of the professional Managers

Association, Kelly Reyes.

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The Navy has been pushing hard to move to a portfolio management approach to its

information technology investments. Next up is cybersecurity. Officials say too often individual programs decide how to secure their systems and networks. The idea is to move the Navy and Marine Corps to what they call a holistic approach that considers people, processes, technology as all part of the equation. We get details from Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.

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