The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Veterans Affairs office of inspector general has revealed a fundamental way to improve care. It has to do with how medical staff assess patients about to be discharged. The OIG has recommended a national policy to use social determinants of health, and health-related social needs, when evaluating patients. Here with why this is so important, deputy assistant IG Julie Kroviak.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

National Safety Month is nearly here, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is reminding workplaces across the country to stay vigilant about risks, whether bombings to insider cyber threats. CISA is also developing new physical security goals for critical infrastructure organizations. To learn more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, spoke with CISA’s executive assistant director for infrastructure security, David Mussington. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office of Personnel Management finds itself defending a recently finalized rule meant to prevent the return of Schedule F. That’s a Trump-era policy that made it easier to fire career certain federal employees in policy jobs. OPM’s acting director says the re-emergence of such a policy would worsen problems recruiting and retaining federal employees. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman has the latest. 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transportation safety in the United States has grown safer, thanks in part to work A GAO superstar. She's overseen work ranging from diversity in crash test dummies to preventing catastrophic train wrecks. More broadly, she's ridden herd on transportation-related spending under the trillion dollar infrastructure law. For her work, she's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. For more on all of this, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Biza Repko, director of physical infrastructure issues at the Government Accountability Office.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lots of people pay attention to the Cybersecurity Framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST came out with a major update recently. The first such update since 2018. For an analysis of what's changed, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with attorney Lance Taubin, senior associate on the Cyber and Data Team at Alston and Bird.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal and state firearms laws keep guns from people deemed a danger to themselves or others. At least that's the theory. Now the Justice Department has formed what it calls a resource center to help jurisdictions carry out these laws. It's called the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. For how it works, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Karhlton Moore.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Army has seen enough from its six pathfinders using digital engineering tools and techniques that it’s ready to go all in on.

A new memo, which Gabe Camarillo, the undersecretary of the Army, signed Tuesday, sets the stage for broader adoption of digital engineering capabilities and practices.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Pentagon is expanding its military spouse employment pilot program to include entry-level jobs as the program enters its second year.

In its first year, the Military Spouse Career Accelerator Program mainly focused on placing “career-ready” military spouses into those paid fellowships. This year, the program will provide opportunities for military spouses who are at the beginning or early stages of their career.

“This year, we actually introduced entry-level positions as well. Our first year it was really career-ready spouses. And this year, we’re looking at those entry-level jobs for those younger spouses that might need to put their foot in the door and start the process of having employment and a career,” Patricia Barron, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military community and family policy, told reporters Monday.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A new rule from the Energy Department means the eventual end of gas and oil to heat new and renovated federal buildings. And, DOE officials believe, the rule will save tens of millions of dollars. For details, Federal News Network Deputy Editor talked with David Smedick, the federal policy manager for the carbon-free buildings program at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.