The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

With the era of near-zero inflation over, retirement planning has taken on some new urgency, simply because a fixed income and rising prices do not make a good combination. For some of the latest think on all that, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Thiago Glieger, with RMG Advisors of Rockville, Maryland.

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She is 24-year Army veteran and she spent several years in the congressional branch as deputy director of the Government Publishing Office. Now she's the new director of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing. To find out what is ahead for the bureau, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with the new director, Patty Collins.

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A Postal Service letter carrier is one of the most public-facing jobs in the federal government.

They deliver mail and packages to 163 million addresses across the U.S. at least six days a week. They’re a routine presence in their customers’ lives, which means they’re often the first to realize when something on their route isn’t quite right.

It turns out letter carriers are often first on the scene in the case of an emergency. Every year, USPS employees rescue people from house fires, car crashes and medical emergencies while on their routes.

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The Pentagon is building out infrastructure to facilitate the implementation of AI technologies in a secure and sustainable way, and Alpha-1, a new portfolio of services, will be central to the effort.

Alpha-1 is not merely a platform but rather a set of capabilities and tools that the armed services and other DoD agencies can use to accelerate the development of AI technologies.

“Alpha-1 is the one that is starting to get momentum to enable AI and ML scaffolding,” Navy Capt. Xavier Lugo, who leads the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Task Force Lima, said during the Center for Strategic and International Studies event Tuesday.

By ‘scaffolding,’ Lugo means laying out the foundational structure for the development of AI. Scaffolding includes data labeling as a service, federated model catalogs and test and evaluation capabilities, among other components.

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Once people got over the shock of the Maryland bridge collapse, the long-term questions started to arise. Like, what about the nation's supply chain, given that the Key Bridge is the entrance to an important shipping port. For analysis, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Dr. Philip Evers, University of Maryland supply chain management professor.

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Labor-Management Forums in federal agencies come and go, over and over again, depending on which party holds the White House. Now they have returned, but only in the third year of the Biden administration. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with someone about that: former management processor and union president Bob Tobias.

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A non-profit grantee in a cooperative agreement with the Commerce Department, plans to seed the country with specialized nerds. The International Economic Development Council has recruited 65 of what it calls economic recovery corps fellows. They will fan out to distressed areas and help get local economies going. For details Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Nicole Manapol, Senior Director of the Council's Economic Recovery Corps.

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One year after the Office of Personnel Management released its gender identity and inclusion guidance on Transgender Day of Visibility, transgender federal employees expressed gratitude for the guidance, but also frustration around a lack of communication and training regarding both protections and processes.

They appreciate the protections and the clarity put forth in the guidance; it’s far more than existed before. But they also said agencies could do more to communicate about the guidance at both the managerial and employee levels, and provide training for managers to handle the technical and legal details facing transgender federal employees.

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