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Other transaction agreements or OTAs are not as protest proof as once thought. A recent decision by the Court of Federal Claims gives contractors a more specific path to file complaints over these non-typical federal buying efforts. For more on what the court’s decision means for the future of OTAs, Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive to discuss. 

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The Office of Personnel Management is taking steps to address pay inequity in the federal workforce. The government’s pay gap between men and women isn’t as big as the private sector’s. But OPM has some new instructions for agencies to try to bring the federal pay gap down to zero. Joining the Federal Drive with more, Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman.

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A worldwide IT outage knocked millions of Microsoft users offline last week, and also tripped up several federal agencies. Now the White House is assessing the damage, while some members of Congress say the incident highlights the risks of IT consolidation. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joined the Federal Drive with the latest.

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Large portions of the State Department’s workforce are relatively new on the job, and didn’t get the traditional onboarding experience. About 20% of the Foreign Service and 30% of its civil service employees were hired since March 2020. Many of them started the job remotely, and missed out on core on-the-job training because of the pandemic. Now the State Department is taking a closer look at those training gaps, and helping its workforce brush on emerging fields like AI. For a closer look at all of this, Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman spoke with the director general of the Foreign Service and director of the Bureau of Global Talent Management, Marcia Bernicat. 

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As with every year, hundreds of amendments are introduced to both the Senate and House version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Obviously not all of them make it, but they are debated nonetheless. To find out what amendments those on the industry side are keyed in on, Federal News Network Executive producer Eric White spoke to David Berteau, President and CEO of the Professional Services Council on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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Even if you're not a space geek, you may have heard of the moons Europa and Enceladus, both which orbit Jupiter and Saturn respectively. They're famous for their potential ability to host the building blocks of life beyond Earth. Well new research from NASA shows that those building blocks may not to hard to find were we ever to send a probe to do some digging around. Alexander Pavlov is a NASA Space Scientist who lead this research, and he joins me now.

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Earlier this month, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Aviation Subcommittee held a hearing on maintaining a steady flow of workers for the U.S. air traffic control system. One of those to testify David Spero, national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists. His message? Congress needs to engage with the Federal Aviation Administration to address the severe staffing shortages. Federal News Network Executive producer Eric White spoke to Mr. Spero on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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It has been a major policy initiative of the Biden administration to get more Americans and agencies utilizing electric vehicles. Well, how about the agency that probably has the largest amount of vehicles in its garage? The Postal Service is in the process of electrifying its fleet. To do that though, there needs to be the infrastructure to support them once they do get out there. To get an update on where things currently stand, we welcome to the program Amanda Stafford, she's Deputy Assistant Inspector General for the USPS' IG office.

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