The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

For nearly 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has operated a data gathering site, called the National Healthcare Safety Network. In 2020, CDC made it mandatory for nursing homes to report COVID cases. Suddenly thousands of nursing homes had to enroll in the network. It didn't go well, but things have improved since then. For the latest, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Health and Human Services Assistant Regional Inspector General, Marshall Allen.

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Very few topics raise the temperature of federal employees as much as changes to their office space.

The loud talker next to you.

The person’s whose daily tuna sandwich smell permeates the office.

The traffic, the cost of gas or the metro, and the overall hassle of having to make your way into the office after many people realized the benefits and enjoyment of telework.

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Can it get any more chaotic in Congress? This week will tell, as we might see another try at impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alexandro Mayorkas, foreign aid, and federal telework. It's a broken record and you are the needle. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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A bill in the House would boost protections against discrimination of older workers, protections that were weakened by the Supreme Court back in 2009. It is called the Protecting Older Workers Against Age Discrimination Act (POWADA). For specifics, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Tully Rinckey attorney Michael Fallings.

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Zero trust cybersecurity is on everyone's mind these days, who is responsible for an information system. For an update on what is going on at the Defense Department, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Randy Resnick, Director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office in the DoD's office of the chief information officer.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit, over claims it gave a Jewish applicant only Saturdays to complete steps in the hiring process.

NGA reached a settlement last month with Jeffrey Podell, a Sabbath-observant Jew who applied for several NGA police officer jobs in April 2021.

As part of the settlement, NGA agreed to give Podell pre-employment testing options Monday through Thursday.

His attorney Clifford Rieders, said his client completed the test on Tuesday, Feb. 6.

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Retirement is supposed to mean you don't work any more or at least only work because you want to. Most people wonder, how much income is enough for me to retire? For some answers, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with federal retiree Abe Grungold of AB Financial Services.

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It is not every day the Veterans Affairs Department comes up with a new insurance program. In fact, last year was the first time in 50 years. For a progress report and what it took to launch it, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Dan Keenaghan, the executive director of the insurance service at the Veterans Benefits Administration.

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