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Congress is on its second week of spring break. But its workload is piling up like drifts of cherry blossom petals. To get a rundown the latest Hill news, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) recently introduced a bill to boost data science education. It would offer up to $10 million in grants to schools from nursery school to four-year colleges. Is it a good idea? For one answer, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Laura Albert, a University of Wisconsin Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

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If it's true that software is eating the world, that's certainly true of the U.S. military. One way to get crucial software is to develop it with your own people. Now the Marine Corps is the latest component to establish a software factory for, in the Corps' words, "solving real Marine problem sets." For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the software factory director, Lt. Col. Charlie Bahk.

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The Navy says it’s having trouble meeting its homeland defense responsibilities in the Carribbean and other areas of U.S. Southern Command. That’s one of several reasons officials think that region — the 4th Fleet, in Navy parlance — is an ideal place to continue proving out the feasibility of unmanned ships, aided by advanced technologies like artificial intelligence.

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The IRS is preparing to hire tens of thousands of new employees by the end of fiscal 2024, with many of those new hires going to improve taxpayer experience and beef up enforcement. The IRS outlined its hiring and workforce goals as part of the Strategic Operating Plan it released Thursday.

More broadly, the plan describes how the IRS will spend nearly $80 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act, which is meant for the agency to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT over the next decade.

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One thing the nation has learned in helping Ukraine fight Russia, is how fragile our defense industrial supply base really is. From javelin missiles to major platforms, in a conflict the U.S. would run out in days or weeks. And then what? For some fixit ideas, the Federal Drive turned to the executive director for the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, Jerry McGinn.

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If you buy or approve the acquisition of software for the government, you probably already know. You're going to have to deal with something called a software bill of materials, or S-BOM as part of understanding what you're getting. Now the Science and Technology Directorate of the Homeland Security Department is aiming to help with the whole software provenance and supply chain issues. It's calling the Silicon Valley Innovation Program. Here with details, the program technical director, Anil John.

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Several federal agencies track, and try to do something about, the cybersecurity threat. Among them, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, known as DC3. Its' vulnerability disclosure program started back in 2016. How many reports do you think it's issued? 100? 6,000? Wait 'til you hear how many. Here's the DC3's director of vulnerability reports, Melissa Vice.

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