The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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When most agencies go to the bargaining table with their federal union, there’s already a clear starting point for negotiations. Labor and management officials usually agree to reopen a handful of articles from their existing collective bargaining agreement, then discuss and implement the various changes each party wants to make.

But for the Defense Health Agency, that’s not the case. After the agency’s employees unionized, the American Federation of Government Employees spent the better part of the last two years figuring out what employees’ rights will look like, encompassing everything from relocations and overtime work, to how to handle disciplinary actions.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson continues the balancing act within his own party. One week it's all about FISA. Then, of course, there are the lingering questions about helping Israel and Ukraine. For an update on what's going on in Congress this week, Federal News Network's Eric White talked with Bloomberg Government's Loren Duggan.

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You’ve been hearing a lot about it lately, present radio program included. Federal agencies are looking at different ways to utilize artificial intelligence. But just how much of their budgets are agency leaders willing to put AI? Federal News Network's Eric White talked about that with Professor Greg Dawson of Arizona State University. Dawson recently conducted a study with the Brookings Institution to look at how the federal government has been purchasing AI.

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The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) recently gave an update on its Project Safe Delivery. It has been a year-long effort by the agency to prevent mail theft, as well as on letter carriers. For details, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Michael Martel from the USPIS.

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Agencies put out thousands of notices of funding opportunity (NOFO) for grants every year. And like many things across the government, NOFOs have gotten bigger and more complex over time.

The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to stem the NOFO tide with a new pilot aiming to streamline and simplify these notices.

And the success of this limited pilot turned into a key piece to the bigger grants management revamp that the Office of Management and Budget detailed on April 4.

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Millions of Americans are sweating over one of the most intrusive and convoluted processes known to mankind. The IRS is in high gear as it prepares to process tax returns. Everyone uses software, but what if artificial intelligence could cut through the tax tangle. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with someone who thinks the AI scenario is a distinct possibility: Dr. Tinglong Dai,professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

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A new strategy from the Defense Department outlines how the agency plans to sync up its interests with the commercial space companies, with which it works. The first of its kind 2024 Commercial Space Integration Strategy, looks to integrate commercial solutions into DoD's national security space architecture. To learn more about it, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with one of the authors of the strategy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy John Plumb.

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