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The idea of a nuclear-powered spacecraft goes back decades. Now it may become reality. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA are teaming up on a demonstration project. They want to see if a nuclear rocket engine could power flight to Mars. To talk about the project, Federal Drive host Tom Temin was joined by Dr. Anthony Calomino, NASA' Materials and Structures Engineer.

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The Federal Drive with Tom Temin continues its week-long series of interviews with recent Presidential Rank Award winners. Temin's guest for this interview probably knows as much about disasters -- and federal responses to them -- as anyone. Her experience with the Federal Emergency Management Agency dates back to debris management after 9/11. Now she's the FEMA region 3 administrator. Enjoy Federal Drive host Tom Temin's interview with MaryAnn Tierney.

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The White House recently appointed Loren DeJong Schulman as Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management at the Office of Management and Budget. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Bob Tobias, who had a couple of ideas for what Ms. Schulman should set as her personal goals. Tobias is a professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University.

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The White House has announced a new national cyber strategy, laying out a vision for shoring up the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure sectors through baseline security requirements and re-aligning more responsibility for cyber risks to big tech companies. the strategy also envisions using federal procurement as a major tool for improving accountability for cybersecurity in products and services.

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Federal Drive host Tom Temin continues his series of interviews with the most recent class of Presidential Rank Award winners, chatting with someone who's been on his show before. Cara Abercrombie is the former Acting Deputy Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. She's now on detail at the National Security Council.

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The Census Bureau is still assessing what it learned from a national count conducted during a pandemic. It's also looking ahead to how it can best operate as a statistical agency, perhaps the premier statistical agency, 25 years into the 21st century. For an update, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Census Director Robert Santos.

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A more “challenging landscape” on Capitol Hill, now with a partisan divide between the White House and Congress, has propelled the National Treasury Employees Union, for one, to become even more vocal on its latest set of legislative priorities. At the top of the federal union’s list of concerns is securing a sizeable pay raise for federal employees next year. Although the 4.6% raise in 2023 was the largest in about 20 years, NTEU National President Tony Reardon said the boost didn’t align with the original expectation.

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The Defense Department says it’s just a few months away from starting to transition itself from firefighting substances that have contaminated groundwater with harmful chemicals at and around hundreds of current and former bases, and plans to switch completely to alternative foams that don’t pose health and environmental risks by the end of this fiscal year.

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