The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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Agencies need multiyear funding to get big modernization projects done. Otherwise it is piecemeal, depending on the year-to-year whims of Congress. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest says late appropriations every year cause agencies to resort to the fix-what-we-can-now approach. He's former management professor and union president Bob Tobias.

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Social Security taxes start automatically the day you start working. But when the time comes you have got to file an application to get your benefits. When to file? Well, it's not that simple. You need a "strategery." To look at some of those important considerations, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with federal retirement expert Tammy Flanagan.

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken steps to better balance transparency and privacy when it comes to what are known as Enforce and Protect Act administrative proceedings. The new procedures let parties involved in anti-dumping and duty cases see information that is otherwise protected. To hear how it works, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the Executive Director of CBP's Regulations and Ruling Directorate, Alice Kipel.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t done dealing with a February ransomware attack that had sweeping effects across public and private health care systems across the country, and at least some aspects of its operations will be affected until as late as next February, the department said Tuesday.

VA officials emphasized there were no known impacts to patient safety linked to the attack on Change Healthcare, a large data exchange provider. But like many other health systems, the Veterans Health Administration was forced to sever many of its feeds that transmit billing, prescription and other data to and from third-party providers and other vendors.

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Federal employees thinking about retirement --and if you're not, you should be -- tend to concentrate on what they can save. When you actually retire, it pays to think about what you spend, or if you want to spend and maximize your Thrift Savings Plan. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got more insight when she talked to federal retiree and financial consultant Abe Grungold.

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Lots of promising and low-cost drugs get down people's gullets thanks to decades of reform at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She's retired now, but Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest was the agent behind the modernization of the FDA's drug-review process. Colleagues call her a force of nature. Now she's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program: Former principal deputy commissioner Janet Woodcock.

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Among its priorities, the Biden administration wants to help clean up the oceans and make the use of them more sustainable. That effort partly falls to the Office of Science and Technology Policy. To find out what the OSTP is doing, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talk with the principal assistant director for oceans and environment, Deerin Babb-Brott.

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