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Retirement from a career should mean an exciting new phase in life...not a glidepath to the graveyard. Federal retirees tend to be a feisty group. One reason is they tend to prepare carefully. Retirement expert Tammy Flanagan has some observations, and joins me now.

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Very low earth orbit satellites … known as V-L-E-Os … have become important in a variety of surveillance and imaging applications. Trouble is, they're *so* low, they don't stay up very long without propulsion to keep them up. Eventually they run out of fuel. That's a problem the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying to solve with a program known as Otter. For details, DARPA program manager Sarah Popkin joins me in studio.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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When it comes to open cyber security jobs across the country, Seeyew Mo doesn’t want to focus on the 500,000 number that’s often bandied about. Mo is the assistant national cyber director for workforce training and education at the Office of the National Cyber Director in the White House. He says the focus should be on expanding who and what positions are considered part of that cyber workforce. During Federal News Network's Workplace Reimagined, Jason Miller got more from Mo.

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The Army Medical corps is vital to readiness and that takes more than 4000 physicians in the active component and 2000 in the reserve. The doctor recruitment rate though doesn’t keep up with the separations and the Rand Corporation examined possible ways for the medical boost recruitment and retention. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis spoke with Rand senior economist, Michael Mattock and senior operations researcher at Ed Chan.

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In acquiring sonar equipment, the Navy didn't go deep enough into the fine points of small business rules. In a small business set-aside, the question of whether an offerer could be a non-manufacturer showed just how complicated things can get. Details now from Haynes Boone procurement attorney Zach Prince.

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Except for a brief few years during the Trump administration … federal employee unions have had official time for decades. Official time means federal employees can spend work time on union business such as filing grievances. Now a Senate bill filed by Utah Republican Mike Lee would outlaw official time. One group in *favor* may not surprise you … the National Right to Work Committee. Committee V-P Greg Mourad joins me now.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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International trade requires communications among widely diverse computer systems. A quality called interoperability is required to make trade work smoothly. Now U.S. Customs and Border Protection is fielding new global interoperability standards ... with the hopes of testing them internationally next year. For more, we turn to the director of C-B-P's Business Transformation and Innovation Division, Vincent Annunziato.

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U.S. Special Forces Command Small Business Innovation Research Program; it’s unique among efforts around the government. Congress gave SOCOM a special authority back in 2021 to do business to business transitions through the Softworks organization. For more about how SOCOM is using this authority to meet service member needs more quickly, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller spoke with Director of Science and Technology for Special Operations Forces, Lisa Sanders.

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