The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Armed Services have turned to social media in recent years to promote recruitment. Yet they're still missing sign-up goals by the thousands. The Government Accountability Office finds, the target Generation Z has a declining attitude about the military. More now from the GAO's director of defense capabilities and management, Alissa Czyz.

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Federal senior executives are often well known in their agencies, but toil in obscurity as far as the public's concerned. My next guest is a physician, senior executive and the deputy under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration. Now he's among this year's Senior Executives Association's people of the year. As part of our ongoing series of these S E A'ers.

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It's beginning to look a lot like transition. To the next Trump administration, that is. In fact, the so-called landing teams should be dropping in on agencies starting this week. All this against a backdrop of budget uncertainty. We check in with veteran watcher and president and C-E-O of the Professional Services Council David Berteau.

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Although the Biden administration is winding down, current senior officials see a few key opportunities to expand federal hiring initiatives in the coming years. Strategies such as skills-based hiring and shared certificates have long had strong bipartisan support and have already seen some promising results. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman joins me with more.

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It's no secret that the FAA has an ongoing need for more air traffic controllers. Air traffic control takes more training and skill than making whole milk cappuccinos, though. Now the FAA has expanded its metwork of collegiate training sites with the addition of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida. Joining me with details, the FAA's deputy vice president of safety and technical training, Christopher Wilbanks.

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My next guest makes his living putting on comedy shows about public records he's obtained through freedom of information act requests FOIA. Given the state of politics and the uncertainty over what the Trump administration will bring, my producers thought, why not? The creator of Foia Comedy, Curtis Raye, joins me now.

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The latest potentially disruptive force for the government is from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. They're promising to use their so called Department of Government Efficiency to upset the status quo in the executive branch. Managers in both agencies and industries have got to have a plan to mitigate and soften the real or perceived impact of these changes for more on how to manage disruptions in the workplace. Federal News Network's executive editor Jason Miller caught up with Air Force chief information officer, Venice Goodwine.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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The IRS wants U.S. citizens to be honest about paying their tax obligations. But who keeps the I-R-S on its toes? For the last 25 years, that's been the job of the Treasury Inspector for Tax Administration known as TIGTA. It started in 1999, following landmark Congressional overhaul of the IRS in 1998. Here with a review, senior advisor Matt Schimmel.

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Between the nominees of President-elect Donald Trump traipsing up the Senate and the 2025 budget deadline Capitol Hill has become a beehive of activity. Here with a roundup of what to watch Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan.

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