The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The ongoing question of whether federal employees with offices in the District of Columbia will return four or five days a week, is not just a matter of restaurants and retail stores. The commercial real estate industry, which houses all of these elements, is also looking at a cloudy crystal ball. To get that point of view, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Howard Traul, the Senior Managing Director of the commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

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Critics of telework often point to its limitations on collaboration. Video meetings have replaced the conference table for millions of teleworkers, but they can be annoying. Earlier, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the D.C. Deputy Mayor, who outlined why the city wants federal employees to come back or have the government let go of some of its real estate. In this interview, Tom Temin turns to Frameable CEO Adam Riggs, who offers another angle on the virtues of virtual meetings.

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The Mayor of the District of Columbia recently urged the federal government to get its people back in their offices or give up millions of square feet. The city has ambitious economic goals that could, in its view, make better use of the space. For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with John Falcicchio, D.C.'s Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.

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The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is looking to modernize the way the federal government does business — and giving agencies a status update on its goals through the end of the decade. Fiscal Service recently gave agency chief financial officers an update on progress made toward its financial management goals in fiscal 2022.

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Semiconductor chips have gotten all of the attention and a $50 billion subsidy from the government. But without the more prosaic Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) underneath them, chips don't do anything. PCB manufacturing has mostly moved offshore, leading to a pending bill to help the industry, as the nation focuses on the supply chain. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke in-studio with David Schild, the Executive Director of the Printed Circuit Board Association of America.

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The government's latest consolidated financial statements would give a normal CFO hives. Material control weaknesses, significant uncertainties, serious financial management problems. Those are words from the Government Accountability Office to explain why it can't render an opinion on the whole thing. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Robert Dacey, GAO's Chief Accountant.

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The Navy's International Programs Office (NIPO) is one of its lesser known components. It helps build maritime security and development partnerships. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with NIPO's new executive director, Karla Horn

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“Help yourself before helping others” — it’s a familiar adage, but it’s also advice the Government Accountability Office urges the federal government’s personnel shop to take. The Office of Personnel Management is at “significant risk” of being unable to help agencies address governmentwide skills gaps, if it can’t first do a better job of addressing its internal skills gaps, GAO said in a report published last week.

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