The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The 2025 defense budget request is out, and the Pentagon plans to cut its active duty end strength once again as it struggles to meet its recruitment goals. At the same, it plans to boost its personnel budget. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has the details. 

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The Biden administration plans to push hard for sales of federal buildings that agencies no longer need. Its fiscal 2025 budget request seeks major funding for the General Services Administration to improve the space it owns, and consolidate for federal employees into those buildings. That would give it an opportunity to get rid of both owned and leased office space. The White House is also coming up with plans to fund a new FBI headquarters. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman has more. 

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Government shutdown threats and scrimping on contractor employee wages, those conflicts affect one group of working people perhaps more than any other. People with disabilities. Joining the Federal Drive with some of his current concerns, the president of the Alliance for Expanding America's Workforce, Dwight Davis.

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Bloomberg Government recently underscored something federal contracting data has been showing. In the last ten years, the number of small businesses doing business with the government has fallen by a third. Small companies staying in the market specialize in it. My next guest says the regulatory burden the government requires keeps non-specialized, so-called mom-and-pop business out of the market. Long time federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joined the Federal Drive to discuss.

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a small, independent federal agency, plans to examine as many museums in the U.S. as it can. It's National Museum Survey will launch in 2025. The agency recently completed a pilot effort to test its survey process. For details, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Laura Huerta Migus, Deputy Director for Museum Services at IMLS. And with with Matt Birnbaum, the agency's Director of Research and Evaluation.

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The Biden administration’s fiscal 2025 budget request, hot off the presses this week, includes another major boost in cybersecurity spending. The budget proposal also continues to grow the federal government’s primary civilian cybersecurity agency. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joined the Federal Drive with more.

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The Biden administration has opened the bid for next year’s federal pay raise. And it may not be met with a whole lot of enthusiasm. If enacted, feds would receive a 2% raise in 2025. It’s well below what feds received this year. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman joined the Federal Drive with more details from the budget request.

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