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Washington's ticker tape of controversy has wrapped around several agencies and departments. Republicans in Congress would fix things by cutting their budgets. But is that the best way to cause reform? Not according to the guest of Federal Drive Host Tom Temin: Former American University Professor Bob Tobias.

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How fit are guardians, you know, the service members in the U.S. Space Force? The Air Force would like to know. So the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is running an experiment to find out what information wearable fitness devices might yield, and whether they will help increase the fitness of guardians. For details, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Katharine Kelley, the Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Human Capital at the Space Force, and with James Christensen, a Product-Line Lead at the AFRL.

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Federal retirees, and employees looking to retire, have some new resources to help them through the often long and thorny retirement process.

A new series of video tutorials from the Office of Personnel Management lays out, step by step, a couple of key items on the federal retirement to-do list.

With the three new videos, OPM said it hopes to reduce the number of errors from federal retirees when trying to log in to manage their online retirement accounts. And in theory, the videos should also help reduce wait times at retirement services call centers, OPM said, now that more detailed information is readily available to feds who get caught up in some of the early steps of the process.

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For Thrift Savings Plan investors, 2023, so far, has brought a partial climb back out of the depths of 2022. It's a good time to separate the patient investors over here, and the would-be market-timers over there. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Certified Financial Planner Art Stein.

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For service members or civilians aboard the nation's ships and planes, nothing is worse than a culture of assault, bullying and sexual harassment. Yet those were widespread on the craft operated by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA). Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest set about fixing a toxic culture. Now she's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. She is Rear Admiral Nancy Hann, the Director of NOAA's Commissioned Corps and Director of its Marine and Aviation Operations.

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An organization called Service to the Citizen recently handed our dozens of awards to federal officials. At the very top of the list was Alek Stripipatana, the Director of Data and Evaluation at the Health Resources and Services Administration. He and Federal Drive Host Tom Temin had this conversation.

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) hold on Senate-confirmed Defense Department nominations will likely not end before Congress’ August recess. It’s a move that leaves not just nominees, but military and civilian DoD families in a state of limbo. The trickle-down effect means a hold on plans for family moves, school admittances and spouse employment.

Secure Families Initiative (SFI), a military family advocacy group, sent a petition to Tuberville and Senate leadership on Monday requesting the block be lifted. Members of the group delivered the petition with more than 550 signatures to the offices of Tuberville, as well as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

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The nominee to lead Cyber Command is eyeing new programming and budgeting authorities that will allow CYBERCOM to set training standards, build out its warfighting forces and partner more closely with industry.

The bureaucratic but significant change was included more than two years ago in the Fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. The law says that, starting with the fiscal 2024 budget, the head of CYBERCOM will have direct control over the planning, programming, budgeting and execution of resources for the Cyber Mission Force.

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who currently serves as the deputy commander at CYBERCOM, called the forthcoming change a “critical moment” in the 13-year-old command’s history that will put it on par with more established warfighting organizations like U.S. Special Operations Command.

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