The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

You knew it would come to this. Thrift Savings Plan participants are suing the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board and its recordkeeping contractor Accenture Federal Services. Seven participants filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that the board and Accenture botched TSP’s major system update last summer, costing serious damage to hundreds, if not thousands, of participants. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman joined the Federal Drive with more.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is years behind its original schedule for modernizing the system it uses to manage billions of dollars in grants. But FEMA’s CIO says the agency has made progress recently. It now eyes next spring for consolidating the rest of its grants into a single IT platform. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday has more. 

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If you've got trouble breathing, a respiratory therapist can do you a world of good. Recognizing the importance of respiratory therapy and the people who provide it, Veterans Health Administration's Maryland Health Care System has given its respiratory therapists a career boost. Now they've got a pathway to add advanced practice to their titles. The Federal Drive's next guest spearheaded the effort. He's chief of respiratory therapy for VA in Maryland, Daniel Whitt.

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A new problem has emerged for the long-troubled F-35 joint strike fighter program. It concerns spare parts, and who accounts for them. Are they government-furnished parts or should they be accounted for under a contract. The Joint F-35 program office and its suppliers don't always agree, with the result that millions of dollars worth of parts seemingly vaporize. We get details from the director of financial management and assurance issues at the Government Accountability Office, Kristen Kociolek.

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For the second year, the State Department has recognized employees who enable better use of data in the art of diplomacy. Data for diplomacy is both an awards program and a part of the department's modernization plan. This year's group award went to people in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations for their work in a program called the Conflict Observatory. Eric White got the details from team lead Susan Wolfinbarger.

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Two-thirds of the Postal Service’s rural letter carriers are having their pay cut. A new pay system has been in the works between Postal management and union officials for more than a decade. But rural carriers say the Postal Service hasn’t given them or their managers adequate training on the new system, and that they stand to lose thousands of dollars a year in pay. Now Senators have joined in the questioning. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman joined the Federal Drive with the latest. 

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The debt ceiling debate has absorbed many in Washington over the past few weeks, as well as those whose business prospects are directly tied to federal spending. Now that a deal is done, how are they feeling about it? To find out, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with federal contracting expert Larry Allen.

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The Federal Research Division (FRD), an office within the Library of Congress, is celebrating its 75th year in operation. During that time, it has provided much needed non-partisan, custom-tailored research to federal agencies and others involved in governmental operations. To learn more about the FRD and its history, Federal Drive Executive Producer spoke to the chief of the division Annie Rorem.

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Recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a technical assistance document which laid out certain confines employers will need to operate in if they're using artificial intelligence during the hiring process. There have already been a few cases where unintended discrimination affected some companies hiring initiatives. To hear about them and learn more about the document, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with Carol Miaskoff, the EEOC's Legal Counsel.

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