The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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June 12, 2024 Where Social Security could start, as it tries to improve itself
The Social Security Administration is undergoing a rebuild with former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley as its commissioner. The agency has a decent list of ongoing issues, as identified by the Government Accountability Office. For an assessment, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with GAO's education, workforce and income security team director, Elizabeth Curda.

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10 min
June 12, 2024 How DHS plans on spending its federal research dollars
Tasked by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has formulated a plan for the agency's investment goals in specific research areas. This Innovation, Research and Development (IRD) Strategic Plan is DHS' first ever. To learn about what it calls for and how it came together, Federal News Network's Eric White talked with Jon McEntee, who is operations and requirements director with DHS S&T.

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10 min
June 12, 2024The Federal Drive with Tom Temin --June 12, 2024
On this episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:
How DHS plans on spending its federal research dollars over the coming years.
Where Social Security could start, as it tries to improve itself.
How cost-reimbursement contracts can go haywire over time.

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49 min
June 12, 2024 CISA sees customers as key to ‘secure by design’ pledge
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s “secure by design” pledge might be voluntary. But CISA is hoping customers will help drive the demand for companies to follow through and adopt stronger cybersecurity practices.
CISA announced the pledge in May, with an initial 68 technology companies signed onto the commitments. That number has more than doubled to 140 companies over the last month. Lauren Zabierek, senior advisor in CISA’s cybersecurity division, said the goal is to catalyze action by some of the largest technology companies.

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9 min
June 12, 2024 How VA’s flagship app got to 2M downloads in less than 3 years
The Department of Veterans Affairs is giving veterans more options to get health care and benefits from the department — in some cases, through just a few taps on their smartphones.
VA’s nearly three-year-old health and benefits app recently saw more than 2 million total downloads. The app also surpassed more than a million monthly users.
Among its features, the app allows veterans to message their doctors, view upcoming health care appointments and check the status of benefits claims.

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8 min
June 11, 2024 State Department's R & D approach has industry puzzled
Federal services contractors are scratching their collective head over a State Department gambit. State put out a solicitation to sponsor three federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). But what the department wants doesn't sound like anything industry or government couldn't do already. That's according to Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest, the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro.

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10 min
June 11, 2024 What veterans sometimes don't know about VA could fill a book
One challenge for the Veterans Affairs Department is basic. Veterans themselves typically don't know about all of the benefits they're entitled to. A book by a former VA under secretary for benefits aims to fill in the gaps. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked in studio with author Paul Lawrence.

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10 min
June 11, 2024 Taking the measure of new director of NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory
Measuring things is so basic to every advancement, most people sometimes take it for granted. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talks with someone who does not take such things for granted: the new director of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Kate Beers.

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10 min
June 11, 2024The Federal Drive with Tom Temin --June 11, 2024
On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:
Meet the new director of one of the Commerce department's most crucial functions.
What veterans sometimes don't know about the VA could fill a book.
State Department's R & D approach has industry puzzled.

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49 min
June 11, 2024 VA touts its largest nursing workforce, but union says they’re ‘chronically understaffed’
Nurses at the Department of Veterans Affairs are calling on leadership to hire more frontline health care workers, and protesting nationwide staffing shortages that they say make it harder to treat veterans.
VA nurses represented by National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) and National Nurses United (NNU) rallied outside the VA’s headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

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8 min

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