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Debt ceiling, debt ceiling, debt ceiling. It's all you've heard from members of Congress and those who cover it. Now that all parties involved have come to an agreement to raise it, what does it mean for federal agency budgets? To find out, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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The self-driving vehicle is now a reachable asset for travelers in major American cities, after a ton of researching and testing. The Army, however, has it own need for the autonomous vehicles. To help procure the complicated technology, the Army turned to the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) as a facilitator with folks from the industry side that can help. To learn more, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White talked to David Michelson, a Project Manager with DIU.

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• There's the business climate. And there's the environmental climate. Officials at Customs and Border Protection want to talk with industry about the impact of international trade on the climate, … and they're organizing an event to share ideas. For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with AnnMarie Highsmith, Executive Assistant Commissioner (EAC) of Office of Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

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The Defense Department has abruptly cancelled the new travel management system it has spent five years and tens of millions of dollars to build and implement, and is telling all of its users to return to using the antiquated and much-maligned system the new one was supposed to replace.

In a May 24 memo, Gil Cisneros, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, announced the sudden end of the program, called MyTravel, saying the new system will completely cease operations on Sept. 13. The memo gave no explanation for the change in course.

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With many agencies’ return-to-office plans still uncertain, Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee want to take matters into their own hands.

GOP committee leaders changed their strategy for trying to get more federal telework data, now reaching out directly to agency heads. In a series of 25 letters, the lawmakers asked for up-to-date numbers of teleworking federal employees, after saying the Biden administration was “not adequately tracking the specific levels of telework.”

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The Department of Homeland Security is updating its IT strategic plan this year as the department shifts away from a “big bang” approach to technology projects, and an associated reliance on system integrators, to more iterative projects and enterprise services.

One of the key principles of DHS’s IT modernization approach going forward is “the department, not a contractor, should serve as lead integrator for any modernization effort,” DHS IT leaders told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight.

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A bipartisan resolution aims to bring more evidence-based policy making to Congress. It would establish a commission to, in the words of the sponsors, "facilitate the integration of robust data in the legislative process." For more about what that would do, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talks with one of the main backers of the resolution, Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.)

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