The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The federal community spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve the hiring process. What gets less attention is the onboarding process, all of those steps that have to happen once somebody is hired to make them productive and happy employees. That's starting to change in at least one large DoD organization, a new onboarding implementation plan for the Office of the Secretary of Defense aims to make the process a lot smoother for new employees and for hiring managers. Danielle Metz served until last week as the Chief Information Officer for the OSD and helped lead drafting of the implementation plan. She spoke about it with Federal News Network's Jared Serbu.

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Agencies have six strategies for making healthier workplaces. The National Academy of Public Administration says, for instance, you could offer more career growth opportunities or modernize recruitment, maybe not ground breaking ideas. But the Academy says their strategies are helpful to align with changes in the federal workforce over the last couple of years. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got more from Academy president and CEO, Terry Gerton.

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A changing world needs a changing State Department. That requires the workforce to keep up. Last month the State Department marked what it called modernization week to summarize and crow a little about how things have changed under Secretary Antony Blinken. Joining me to review the list someone with two hats. The director general of the foreign service and director of global talent, Marcia Bernicat.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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NASA has embarked for several years now on what it calls a digital transformation. It wants greater efficiency and mission assurance, and better integration among its scattered components. For a view of the human side of digital transformation, at last week's ACTIAC executive leadership conference, I caught up with the digital transformation culture and communication lead, Krista Kinnard.

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At one time it was lavatory assemblies. Now it's soap dispensers. But the Defense Department seems to have a proclivity for adding making military specifications to otherwise commercial items. My next guest says it's time for a snap-to back to a commercial item preference. Federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joins me now.

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The National Archives and Records Administration is preparing for a digital future. NARA has overhauled its strategic plan with a big focus on digital records and artificial intelligence. In charge of that effort is the Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogun. She sat down with Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday to discuss the future of NARA, as well as a recent Wall Street Journal story that has sparked some controversy around NARA's efforts to redesign the National Archives Museum.

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Like every critical issue facing the nation, national security will require gifted people who care about it. To help, the University of South Florida has launched a comprehensive program to prepare students interested in a national security career. Joining me with the details, the program coordinator Jeff Rogg.

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The Agriculture Department, like all large departments, has large and varied software needs. It also develops applications for other agencies as a sort of contractor. USDA has adopted a development methodology known as low-code, no-code. At last week's Executive Leadership Conference of the ACT-IAC group I caught up with the USDA's Jerry Hingtgen, federal project lead for software-as-a-service software development.

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