The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Veterans Affairs Department is conducting what it calls the largest outreach campaign in its history, happening under the PACT Act which expands benefits to veterans exposed to toxic substances from sources like burn pits. VA has already enrolled close to 750,000 of these veterans. For details of the next outreach, Federal News Network's Jory Heckman, spoke with VA's Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, Adam Farina.

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The U.S. once had a missile gap. Now it has a semiconductor gap. An insufficient supply of domestically-made advanced integrated circuits. Congress passed the Chips and Science Act back in 2022. My next guest says DoD should do more to take advantage of it. She's an electrical engineer professor at the University of Arizona and part of a recent National Academies study, Liesl Folks.

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Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are partners at the same dance. And, for a couple of years now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has run a project called the AI Cyber Challenge. No small effort, it awarded nearly 30 million dollars in prizes to teams able to design AI systems to protect critical code. Here with more, program manager Andrew Carney.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Now that the three month continuing resolution looks like what we're going to get, contractors wonder whether that's good news or bad news. Relative to a lapse in appropriations, it's probably good news, but delayed regular appropriations still have consequences. More now from federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.

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The Army is in the midst of a big push to modernize its software development processes, and we're not just talking about code writing. Its agreements with industry might be about to change in big ways as well. As Federal News Network's Jared Serbu reports the goal is to make contracting for software as agile as the development process itself.

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Contractors and agencies alike have long had standards for identity management when people log on to systems. Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology proposes to tighten the requirements for identity proofing and related procedures. Analysis now from attorney Sean Griffin, a partner at Robinson and Cole.

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The Federal Digital Service spawned look-alikes in several agencies. Among them NASA, an agency that already had heavy technology chops. For a look inside NASA's Digital Service, we turn to its team leader, Shawn Chittle.

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Federal health and retirement benefits have a major recruitment and retention influence on federal employees, and those benefits are especially important to millennial and Generation Z federal employees. That's according to the results of a recent survey from the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman joins me with the details. 

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