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There's a loophole in air transportation security. Chartered public flights that sell seats in advance, but don't have the passenger screening that scheduled airlines do. A bill in Congress would change that. Its sponsored by New York Congressman Nick Langworthy, who joins me now.

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Infrastructure of utilities remains stubbornly susceptible to basic cyber security exploits, you know fishing email and default passwords. That’s according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISA's teams conducted more than 140 risk of vulnerability assessments last year and reported them last week. To learn more, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday spoke with the chief of risk insights within CISA's vulnerability management branch, Chris Hilde.

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A small but persistent office in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ... part of the Commerce Department ... has been working over the years to bridge one valley in the digital divide. The campuses of history black colleges and universities ... as well as other tribal and minority serving institutions. We get an update now from the acting director of the Office of Minority Broadband Initiatives, Dominique Harrison.

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The Air Force plans to revise a headquarters directive about intelligence and cyber operations. It won’t be the first time during an ongoing and sweeping change in force structure that Air Force secretary Frank Kendall announced back in February. Federal News Network Anastasia Obis brings us the latest.

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The Defense Department has a long way to go before it earns a clean opinion on its financial statements. You’ve heard that one, but there was a major landmark during the past year of audits. The Marine Corps became the first DoD service to pass muster with auditors. Even there there’s a lot of work to do before the Marines audit process proves sustainable, but they did learn a lot along the way. Troy Robertson was the project manager for the DoD inspector general report that put all of this audit results in layman's terms. He spoke with Federal News Network Jared Serbu.

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Inspectors General have a long history … dating to their pivotal role in the American revolution. Like their forebears, modern I-G's must deal with politics, personalities, and the fact that government often performs poorly. It's all detailed in a book … Watchdogs … by former federal I-G Glenn Fine, who joins me in studio.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

• An insider's view of a job lots of federal managers grit their teeth at and tolerate

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Veterans Affairs plans to keep growing its healthcare workforce next year, if and it’s a big if Congress agrees to help cover a cool $12 billion shortfall for 2025. Now some of that money would go toward higher drug and prosthetics prices but VA officials say they’re also trying to keep up with higher than expected demand from veterans. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the latest.

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That donging you hear, it’s the Social Security Administration ringing alarm bells about damage from the continuing resolution House Republicans have proposed earlier this week. Commissioner Martin O’Malley warned that the six month CR plan would lead to a hiring freeze and cratering customer service. O’Malley detailed the agency status and what might lie ahead during a Senate committee hearing earlier this week. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman was there and joins me now with the latest.

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