The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Should the United States need to project kinetic power far away, the decisive factor would be logistics. Yet, according to a detailed study by Brookings, the military has neglected logistics in recent years. For what that means and the consequences, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Brookings senior fellow and logistics study author, Michael O'Hanlon.

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As threats to the United States multiply, the government will need growing numbers of capable civilians in national security. But creaky apparatus for hiring and clearing people gets in the way. That's from a detailed look by the Center for a New American Security. The Federal Drive got more now from senior fellow Katherine Kuzminski.

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The Army is bringing the concepts that make up zero trust to the tactical edge. That's not so easy. The tactical environment includes operational technology, weapons systems, and typical IT systems. They all must work in an intermittent, disconnected, or simply low-bandwidth environment. For insight on the first steps to bring robust cyber capabilities to the edge, Federal News Network's Jason Miller spoke to director of the Army’s functional management office for zero trust and director of the unified network task force, Col. Michael Smith.

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As the Pentagon tries to move more and more toward modern software development practices, it’s become clear, the DoD budgeting system is a bad fit because of its various colors of money. Does that agile development program count as procurement? R&D? operations and maintenance? Congress has given a handful of programs permission to experiment with using just one color of money for software. One of them is the Navy’s Maritime Tactical Command and Control system. For the difference that's made, Federal News Network's Jared Serbu spoke with the program manager for Navy command and control systems, Capt. David Gast.

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Just because Congress is on recess, natural disasters don't stop. Now FEMA is running out of money, thanks in part to the fire in Maui. Just add it to the pile of Hill-urgent issues. For the latest, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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The government's pursuit of false-claims cases never takes a break. So far this year, recoveries have totaled just under $500 million and they appear to be on pace for a full-year-yield of around $2 billion. For more on the trends, and some of the more remarkable settlements, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke to attorney Jonathan Phillips, a Partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher.

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Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of something like 30 agencies that have a hand in disaster recovery. In trying to avoid duplicating benefits to disaster victims, in 2017 HUD started work on a data portal. A place where grantees would load information on benefits the had already received, so HUD could see it. HUD's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found the data portal is only partially completed. The OIG also found questions about whether the portal is a high enough priority for HUD's technology staff. To all of this out, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke in studio with HUD Inspector General Rae Oliver Davis.

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Now at the March’s 60th anniversary, leaders at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Justice, the Department of Education and the White House reflected on how the March, as well as the subsequent passage of civil rights laws, impacted their agency, and how they are still working to carry out the vision and goals of the March today:

“In the lifetime of an institution as broad and deep as the federal government, [60 years] is not a long time. It’s incredibly important for us to be intentional about making sure that there are not those [hiring] barriers — leaning forward where we have the tools, such as with respect to disability, to really make sure that we can bring in persons with disabilities, who have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. You have to lean into that, and the ways in which that can enrich you as an organization and as a government. Frankly, I think that the federal government, in particular, has a huge credibility problem if we are not able to tap into all the talent of this country.” — Charlotte Burrows, Chairwoman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Several thousand Postal Service rural carriers have expressed an interest in leaving their union, after most of them saw pay cuts under a new pay system.

But the union’s new national president is urging caution, and telling its members that a new union won’t mean a better deal for rural carriers.

A grassroots network of rural carriers is collecting signatures from their coworkers, in the hopes of decertifying the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, (NRLCA) which counts 127,000 rural carriers as its members.

Rural carriers behind the decertification effort told Federal News Network that the union didn’t do enough to keep USPS from implementing a new pay system that’s been in the works for more than a decade.

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