The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

A grant program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aims to help resilience of coastal cities and towns. It will hand more than 54 million dollars to four of what it calls accelerators. The accelerators will in turn make grants to small businesses developing technologies for things like renewable energy and hazard mitigation. Joining me with more, Braid Theory CEO Ann Carpenter and NOAA program director Carl Gouldman.

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The DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency has vowed to help the Trump administration reduce the federal headcount. My next guest says the DOGE might be overlooking another source of savings. Government contractors, who outnumber federal employees. Danielle Brian is executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, and she joins me now.

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Federal employees, and to some extent all public servants, are wondering precisely what the next few days an months will bring. Lots of questions of a practical nature, like when will new Social Security benefits flow under repeal of old limitations. And, what happens Monday when Donald Trump re-enters the oval office. We get some informed speculation from the staff vice president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, John Hatton.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The coming Trump administration has promised to institute all sorts of efficiencies in the government. Now a bill from Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, would do just that. The Forged Act focuses on Defense procurement. For analysis of what's in it, we turn to the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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During her three plus years as administrator of the General Services Administration, Robin Carnahan kept one idea front and center. Government is a service provider. There's no better place to lead that effort than the GSA. As Carnahan's time at GSA comes to an end on Monday, she says the agency is in a better place than it was four years ago. Federal News Network's Jason Miller sat down with Carnahan for exit interview.

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Lots of industries are switching their hopes for the future to the incoming Trump Two administration. The technology sector thinks about maintaining U.S. leadership in domains like artificial intelligence. One group is calling on the new administration and Congress to create the necessary tax and regulatory environment. More now from the president and C-E-O of the Information Technology Industry Council, Jason Oxman.

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Does anyone ever really have a contract with the government? A customer that can terminate for convenience, as the legal phrase goes? One sole practitioner pushed back and found that even termination for convenience has procedures and rules. My next guest says you should know your rights as a contractor. Haynes Boone procurement attorney Zach Prince joins me now.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The U.S. border chaos is mirrored to some extent in the court system that deals with immigration. A congressional audit has found that the Justice Department which operates immigration courts lacks data on whether non-citizens have shown up for their mandatory hearings. The case management system of the Executive Office for Immigration Review doesn't track it. We get more now from the Government Accountability Office's Rebecca Gambler.

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