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Employee retention is a hot topic for many agencies. Agencies have made positive steps toward keeping people, but there are a few things they could still do. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talks about all of this (and more) with Financial coach and retired federal manager Abe Grungold.

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Can the Defense Department help itself to commercial intellectual property, even stuff not developed with federal dollars? Yes it can, as a matter of fact. At least judging from a recent case before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. It's a warning to contractors. For the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Haynes Boone partner Dan Ramish.

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If the General Services Administration (GSA) is at the heart of much of federal procurement, Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest for this interview is at the center of the GSA. Jeffrey Koses is GSA's Senior Procurement Executive and Chairman of the U.S. AbilityOne Commission. Most recently, Koses was recognized with a Presidential Rank Award. This interview is part of this week's series of Rank Award winners.

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The federal unemployment insurance program has been rife with fraud for decades. But Labor Department programs created for pandemic relief spawned so much fraud, the department is opening a hundred new investigative cases a week. For the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked to Seto Bagdoyan, the Director of the Forensic Audits and Investigative Service at the Government Accountability Office.

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The Social Security Administration is getting $23.3 million from the Technology Modernization Fund to implement multifactor authentication across its internal systems, part of a trio of recent TMF awards focused on cybersecurity and reliability. The TMF announced three new investments today for SSA, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Agency for Global Media. “With these new cybersecurity investments, TMF funding will increase the security of some of the nation’s most critical systems and sensitive data,” TMF Executive Director Raylene Yung said in a prepared statement. “The TMF is helping these agencies protect lives and livelihoods, safeguard intelligence and information integrity, and keep the programs the federal workforce relies on to serve the American public up and running.” The SSA award will accelerate the adoption of MFA to reduce the risk of employee credentials being stolen.

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The next nine months will prove crucial ones for federal contractors. Lots of acquisition regulations cooking … expansion of buy American .. and more White House emphasis on small *disadvantaged* business. For where it's all headed, the Federal Drive turned to federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.

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The Department of Homeland Security is inching closer to make awards under its much-anticipated FirstSource III small business IT products and software contract. While the timeline is still a bit fluid, the goal is to finally get this almost two-year effort completed in 2023. Paul Courtney, the chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, said there are several reasons why awards under FirstSource III have taken so long, including the more than 600 proposals his office received and is reviewing.

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She's done about everything you can do as a civilian working for the Air Force: Installations, energy, housing, safety and health. Now she's the Director of Staff at Air Force HQ and oversees. A full plate. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Jennifer Miller, a recent recipient of a Presidential Rank Award.

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The Department of Transportation (DOT) has a lot of goals for its latest five-year R &D and technology plan, including a transportation system that is safer, greener and more resilient than the one we have now. For highlights, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked to Dr. Robert Hampshire, DOT's Deputy Assistant Secretary and Chief Science Officer.

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