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Over the last 15 years, agencies have focused on fixing the federal hiring process. While that process is far from perfect, the Office of Management and Budget is starting to look at keeping those employees in government once they have been hired. For more on how the retention of employees is beginning to get some newfound attention, Federal News Network's executive editor Jason Miller caught up with Kristy Daphnis, the Federal workforce Branch Chief at the Office of Management and Budget during the Imagine Nation conference sponsored by ACT-IAC in Hershey, Pennsylvania. 

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Just days ago, the White House came out with a national security memorandum devoted to artificial intelligence. It's a catch-all for trying to keep the United States ahead of A-I developments in what the memo calls the new frontier. For analysis, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro.

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Although her name is on the Labor Department headquarters, Frances Perkins is not well known nearly 60 years since her death. Yet the long-serving secretary of Labor left an enormous legacy for the U.S. public and on the government itself. Now the keeper of Perkins' legacy is seeking to have her homestead in Maine made into a national Park. Joining me with the details, the executive director of the Frances Perkins Center, Giovanna Gray Lockhart.

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One of the main tools the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention has to help it control and prevent is the National Health Safety Network (NHSN). As the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system, it ensures the folks whose job it is to help patients are being protected themselves. For an overview of how the NHSN works and the role it plays in CDC's mission, we welcome Arjun Srinivasan, Deputy Director for Program Improvement in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC.

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The government is pretty good about hiring people with disabilities. But sometimes not so good at keeping them. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission did a detailed study of what it takes to retain people with disabilities. Here with more, the social science research analyst in the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations, Karren Brummond.

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The Defense Department and the Small Business Administration are pouring more than $2.8 billion into startups and other small businesses developing technologies deemed vital to national security. This is all through the new program called the Small Business Investment Company critical technology initiative. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis joins us with more 

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With less than two weeks before the election, the White House released a national security memorandum on artificial intelligence. Lots of provisions for keeping the U.S. at the forefront of safe and ethical AI. Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan joins on this and a few things happening on Capitol Hill.

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The rise of telemedicine means more people are monitored remotely. Medicare pays for a lot of remote monitoring. But according to the Health and Human Services inspector general, Medicare officials need a lot more insight into who's monitored remotely and why. Joining me with the details, the HHS Deputy Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, Ann Maxwell.

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