The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Open season means federal employees have homework. Time spent now planning for your health care coverage can pay off later both in money and health. Here with some things to think about, principal Thiago Glieger of RMG Advisors.

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China has a brilliant strategy for accelerating basic research in a range of strategic topics. It steals research paid for by the United States. That's why my next guest urges the government to get serious about securing federally funded research. He a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, Dan Lips.

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The Defense Department has launched a program to pressure test what it calls sustainable technologies in operational settings. The idea is to discover whether something sustainable also improves performance or reduces costs. It's called Sustainable Technology Evaluation and Demonstration - STED. Here with the details, the director of sustainability and acquisition, David Asiello.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Most military service members live in housing provided by contractors. Just like the commercial housing world, the Defense Department has a supply shortage. Service members face high expenses such that they're often forced to take on debt. The Government Accountability Office now urges DoD to use the tools it has available to get a better handle on the situation. More now from the GAO's director of strategic issues, Alissa Czyz.

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The Commerce Department has been pushing for years to ensure every corner of the nation has broadband. One way is through its Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or BEAD program. Administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Now the NTIA is working on guidance for states and territories planning to pay for widening broadband. For more on BEAD and the guidance, we turn to program director Evan Feinman.

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The Coast Guard's mission set has been expanding both domestically and overseas. The trouble is the Coast Guard budget has been as flat as the equatorial doldrums. The Service's first ever operational posture statement shed some light on how something's got to give Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis joins us with more.

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The Veterans Affairs Department reinstated more than 100 former employees it had fired under a widely challenged law that once made it easier to remove people accused of misconduct. The VA agreed to these actions as part of a settlement it reached with the American Federation of Government Employees Union last year. Now details of that settlement are coming to light through Freedom of Information Act requests. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joins us with the latest.

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Contractors are facing the obligation of a more than three percent minimum wage. That's under the annual wage determination coming from the Labor Department. But a couple of federal court cases seem to limit how widely the new wage determination will apply. We get more now from Centre Law partner Alan Chvotkin.

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