The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Local election officials and how they interact with voters, candidates and sign carriers … it can all have a lot of influence on people's confidence in elections. To help, the Election Assistance Commission … a small, independent federal agency … has established a you tube channel with videos about that very topic. How to effectively communicate with people in what can be challenging situations. E-A-C Chairman Ben Hovland joins me with more.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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Postal Service revenues are growing, but not enough to outpace operating costs. USPS has reported another multi billion dollar quarterly loss and remains far from its goal of breaking even by the end of this fiscal year plus the agency is dealing with persistent mail delays both nationally and regions where USPS is shaking up as delivering network, Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has been following all this and joins us with the latest.

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The Army is in the early stages of condensing five enterprise resource planning systems into one. That’s a tall order Army officials who also plan on upgrading 150 other ERP systems for better financial management and field logistics support for details. Federal News Network Anastasia Obis spoke with cBEYONData Army project lead Erika Del Valle and Army Legacy development manager, Bradley Knick.

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Bad weather has caused increasing real estate damage and insurance losses. My next guest proposes a federal solution to a problem he thinks the property insurance market isn't equipped to handle. He's a former chief risk officer at CitiGroup… now a professor at the University of Maryland. Cliff Rossi joins me now.

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Some 25 states and tribes will get 220 million dollars from the Commerce Department to fix up coastal and watershed habitats. The money comes from the infrastructure and inflation bills of recent years. Grants will come through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in. We get more now from the director of NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation, Carrie Robinson.

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Back in 2018, the Navy's fleet of F-18s was in pretty rough shape. About half of the fleet was out of service because of parts and maintenance issues. But within a year, the Naval Air Systems Command was able to get that down to just 20%. That was the start of an effort called the Naval Sustainment Systems, that's since spread to several other Navy Systems Commands. Federal News Network's Jared Serbu talks to Naval Air Systems Command's Dave Heinauer.

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The Pentagon has proposed new acquisition rules that would inject the long and arriving Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program into contracts. Defense officials plan to start rolling out the CMMC requirements as soon as next year. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with an update.

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Without pollination, its hard for farms to grow crops. Without bees, it's hard to do pollination. My next two guests conducted the research that has revered an alarming drop in the nation's population of honeybees. For their work, they're finalists in this year's Service to America Medals program. Jay Evans and Judy Chen are researchers at the Agricultural Research Service and they join me now.

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