The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

In today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin:

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The American Federation of Government Employees is gaining more traction in representing federal employees in Europe. Negotiations are just about to get underway, after a couple hundred feds at two DoD locations in Germany voted to unionize. And AFGE has plans to expand overseas. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got more from AFGE District 14 Special Assistant Peter Winch.

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Defense contractors now have a place to voluntarily report cybersecurity flaws. The Vulnerability Disclosure Program started last month under the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the DC3, working with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. For details, the Federal Drive turned to the program director, Melissa Vice.

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The Thrift Savings Plan might be the easiest way to accumulate wealth ever devised. Still, people find ways to mess it up, or not get the most out of it. Joining the Federal Drive with five of the most common TSP mistakes, retired federal manager Abe Grungold of AG Financial Services.

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The cybersecurity of operational technology, or OT, is a growing concern for many agencies. At NASA, OT tests rockets, and controls and communicates with spacecraft, and operates ground support facilities. NASA is looking to secure its OT systems, without affecting their safe operation. For details, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, spoke with NASA’s enterprise cybersecurity architect, Mark Stanley. 

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A new agreement between the Defense and State Departments aims to help military spouses living with service members overseas to get the ok to work remotely for eligible federal positions. To learn more, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, Patricia Barron. 

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A new finance system for the Commerce Department has had a rough rollout. Now it's delayed a program initiative from the Biden administration. We spoke with Bloomberg Government's Jack Fitzpatrick a few weeks about problems with the Commerce's Business Applications Solution. For more on the latest glitch, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Fitzpatrick.

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After a multi-year effort, Defense Department health and tech officials got a new electronic health record system completed. The last deployment too place in March. The Government Accountability Office finds, user satisfaction with the new system still doesn't match that of the old system. The Federal Drive got more from the GAO's director of information technology acquisition management, Carol Harris.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/d24106187.pdf

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Open government is a good idea, but you can never let up efforts to keep it what way. Now the General Services Administration has launched what it calls the Open Government Federal Advisory Committee. It has to do with the U.S. Open Government National Action Plan. Joining the Federal Drive to sort it out for us, GSA's associate administrator for governmentwide policy, Krystal Brumfield.

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-launches-open-government-federal-advisory-committee-to-advise-on-governmentwide-transparency-efforts-04262024

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