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When the Bureau of Fiscal Service created its annual progress report for fiscal 2023 it took a bit of a different tack. While the audience and purpose of the Fiscal Service's mission hasn't changed, the agency needed to more clearly highlight how it's accomplishing its three goals. Tim Gribben, the Commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, tells Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller about how the agency is improving federal fiscal efforts around ensuring good stewardship, creating a modern experience and improving delivery of services.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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We've seen this movie before, but in the span of just a couple days last week, we went from a lot of lingering uncertainty about whether the government would be funded beyond today to a continuing resolution being a fait accompli. Nobody likes CRs, but it's a heck of a lot better than a shutdown. The government is now funded through December 20. Here to talk more about what happened and what is next for fiscal 2025 funding is Loren Duggan, the deputy news director at Bloomberg Government.

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With a lot of publicity, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors decided to lower the benchmark for the federal funds rate last week. Panacea or no big deal. Certified financial planner Art Stein of Arthur Stein Financial joins me with how he thinks the new interest rates will affect the Thrift Savings Plan's various funds.

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For 20 years, the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has operated what it calls centers of excellence. The program matches academics with tough challenges, with the directorate paying for research. For some highlights on the 20-year anniversary, we turn to the deputy director of the office of university programs, Jennifer Foley.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs surpassed this year's goal to permanently house veterans experiencing homelessness. VA helped more than 43,000 veterans find housing this year, and nearly all of them, more than 96% remain in permanent housing. For a closer look at all this work, Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke with the VAs Chief of Staff, Meg Cabot.

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Federal agencies have gotten better at hiring specialized talent in recent years. Special hiring authorities have helped, those and intern programs. To really get the most benefit from hires, though, requires making sure they're placed in the right jobs. My next says agencies don't always do such a great job on that count. Long-time federal management observer Bob Tobias joins me now.

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By some estimates, nearly a half million cybersecurity jobs across the nation are going unfilled. A new bill in the House aims to help plug the gap by giving students scholarships to community colleges in exchange for two years of public service. That legislation is just one of several cyber workforce bills Congress is racing to pass before the end of the session. Federal News Network's Justin. Doubleday joins me with the latest.

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It's the best placed to work in the federal government. It has its sights deep into the universe. Yet NASA has some big down-to-earth challenges. A National Academies team looked closely at NASA and found too much focus on the short term and mismatch of work and funding, among other things. The chairman of the Committee on NASA Mission Critical Workforce, Infrastructure and Technology, Norman Augustine, joins me in studio.

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