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Even as Congress takes up spending bills for a fiscal year already half over, budget watchers are preparing for release of the administration's 2025 wish list. In theory, it is a month late, but a few facts have already leaked out. Contractors are among those most concerned, as Federal Drive Tom Temin heard from the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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December seems like a long way off, but next year's Federal Employee Health Benefits Plans are already coming into view. That info is from the Office of Personnel Management's recent annual call letter to health insurance carriers. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin and Federal News Network's Drew Friedman talked with the editor of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, Kevin Moss.

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When the AT&T national network crashed a couple of weeks back, it showed just how dependent the nation has become on wireless networks and the wired internet. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was on top of the situation and still assessing it. For an update, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with CISA's executive assistant director for emergency communications, Billy Bob Brown, Jr.

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The Internal Revenue Service is reaching out to high-income individuals who haven’t filed a federal tax return in recent years, with the goal of recouping millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.

The IRS is mailing notices to 125,000 high-income individuals who haven’t filed a federal income tax return since 2017. The agency will start sending those notices this week.

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters on Thursday that notices are going out to 25,000 individuals with more than $1 million in income, and 100,000 notices to people with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million between tax years 2017 and 2021.

The IRS, by tapping into third-party data sources, believes these 125,000 individuals account for $100 billion in financial activity.

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It is not what contractors or most federal employees wanted, but Congress did manage to avoid a partial government shutdown last week. They only pushed the deadline out a week or two, in order to buy time to consider budget bills. For the outlook on the week ahead, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.

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The Volker Alliance, a premier good-government group, has added a prominent federal technologist to its board. She was the deputy U.S. chief technology officer and founded Code For America, a non-profit that helps government at all levels with digital challenges. For an update, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Jennifer Pahlka.

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He served only one term as POTUS, but he served the nation in one capacity or another for a lifetime. The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum now has a new director for the first time in 20 years. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Dawn Hammatt.

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