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Conventions over, the politicians are hammering away at one another. With the election looking close, questions arise over the next fiscal year budget and the timing for getting it actually enacted. We check in now with W-T-O-P Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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Locating and targeting the enemy takes software. Maneuvering weapons into place and launching them takes castings and forgings. Among the weaknesses in the defense industrial base: a shortage of people skilled in basic metalworking. Now a new program called Metallurgical Engineering Trades Apprenticeship and Learning aims to help. Joining me with the details, Justin Brooks, a program manager with the Composites Institute.

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As it treats veterans exposed to the hazards of burn pits ... the Veterans Health Administration is also trying to better understand the burn pit phenomenon. That's where the burn pit registry comes in. It's database with information on veterans and their burn pit-related maladies. Joining me with more about the burn pit registry and some recent updates to it … V-A's undersecretary for health, Doctor Shereef Elnahal.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Chief human capital officers are thinking about new ways to improve the federal workforce. To brainstorm solutions, the CHCO Council developed working groups on recruitment and outreach, hybrid work and supporting HR employees. But underneath it all is a goal of better collecting and using HR data. For more, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman spoke to Colleen Heller-Stein, executive director of the CHCO Council.

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Too many federal executives think issuance of a memo changing a workplace policy will change the workplace. Policy memos or statements are wish lists unless there's an implementation plan and follow-through. Management professor and former union president Bob Tobias joins me with his perspective.

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It may not look like it, but the House of Representatives has been undergoing a steady self-modernization for the last few years. It's managing its workforce better and has made technology strides … according to the Popvox Foundation, whose founder Marci Harris joins me now.

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Taxpayers who can't resolve their issues with the I-R-S can turn to the Taxpayer Advocate Service. But phoning the service is likely to bring frustration of its own. That comes to light after a look-see by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Details now from TIGTA's chief of staff for inspections and evaluations, Eleina Monroe.

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After an ex contractor leaked sensitive information on thousands of taxpayers the IRS says it's taking steps to shore up data security, but the agency's Inspector General says the IRS's cyber security approach in several areas is "not effective." Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with the latest.

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