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If you're working at the higher ranks of civil service, you probably have noticed. Political appointees are starting to depart just a few weeks after the election and two months before the change in administration. Joining with some highlights one who's been watching closely. Federal sales an marketing consultant Larry Allen.

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Some $31 million from the Chips Act just went to a group called the Midwest Microelectronics Consortium. The money is part of larger outlays under a Chips Act program, Known as the Microelectronic Commons overseen by the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Here to untangle what's going on, the chief technology officer of of the Midwest Microelectronics Consortium, Matt Casto.

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The poorer a nation, the less ability it has to anticipate and mitigate disasters. That's one reason the U.S. Agency for International Development concentrates many of its overseas efforts on helping nations with resilience and the ability to anticipate disasters. More now from USAID's deputy assistant administrator for the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, Jacqueline Musiitwa.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Network defense these days is way more than about desktops, laptops and servers. User endpoints are growing fast, and one of the ways to make them manageable is to use secure by design principles in the Internet of Things ecosystem the government can push the market that way. Greg Touhill is a former Federal Chief Information Security Officer, now the director of the cert Division at the Software Engineering Institute. He spoke with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.

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The Homeland Security Department is out with new artificial intelligence guidance. It lays out responsibilities for using AI and critical infrastructure with the goal of taking advantage of the technology but avoiding safety and security pitfalls. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with some of the details.

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For the Department of Housing and Urban Development, management challenges persist. In its annual review, HUD's inspector general finds some progress. But also that eight of the top ten challenges remain from last year. We get an update from IG Rae Oliver Davis.

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Federal employees have been wondering what the forthcoming Trump administration will mean to them. It's easy to forget that Congress has something to say about that, too. President-elect Trump will have a House and Senate both in Republican hands an infrequent so-called trifecta. Here with what to expect on the Hill, WTOP capitol hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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How many strategic planning meetings have you sat through for strategies that never panned out. Maybe it's because your organization tried to predict the future. Maybe you should try strategic foresight. It's not forecasting, but rather an organized way of anticipating the future. Both the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management have online material about strategic foresight. Now an organization devoted to it has called for a federal office of strategic foresight. Joining me in studio, from the Federal Foresight Advocacy Alliance, vice president Robin Champ.

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