The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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January 13, 2023 IRS needs to staff up HR office before it can rebuild its workforce, watchdog tells Congress
The IRS, for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will be in a better position to improve its performance this year than in the years prior, according to an agency watchdog.

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15 min
January 12, 2023 The GSA administrator on the agency's plans for the president's management agenda in 2023
The General Services Administration has been busy since passage of the American Rescue Plan two years ago and, most recently, the Inflation Reduction Act. GSA is applying funds to fulfill several parts of the President's Management Agenda. For a progress report and look ahead, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with GSA Administrator Robin Carhanan.

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28 min
January 12, 2023 Everything you need to know about critical infrastructure protection, between two covers
A non-profit think tank known as the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology assembled the thinking of more than 50 thinkers in both cybersecurity and infrastructure. The result is a book that is intended to inform the thinking of both government officials and operators with responsibility for critical infrastructure. To hear how it all came together, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Joyce Hunter, the Institute's Executive Director.

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17 min
January 12, 2023 Hundreds of federal employees teleworking overseas set to receive pay bump under NDAA
The Civil Service Federal Employee Serving Overseas Pay Equity Act will establish a locality pay equivalent for some 265 active civilian federal employees, mostly State Department employees, working under the DETO program.

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17 min
January 12, 2023 The military vaccine mandate is dead. So now what?
Long controversial, the military vaccine mandate has been killed off by the just-enacted 2023 National Defense Authorization law. So now what? Can fired services members rejoin? To get some answers, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Anthony Kuhn, managing partner at the law firm Tully Rinckey.

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16 min
January 11, 2023 Janice Underwood: America's Chief Diversity Officer
Diversity and equity in the federal government is a top priority for the Biden administration. The 2021 executive order created a chief diversity officers' executive council led by OPM. The diversity leaders are at work on long-term changes, with a lot of planning, two council meetings and a DEIA summit. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman got the latest from the chief, Chief Diversity Officer, Janice Underwood.

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31 min
January 11, 2023 The review that helps DoD create better contract management documentation
With a record-breaking new defense budget, Defense Contracting Management Agency wants to make sure individual agencies have the skills necessary to fulfill contracting obligations and follow all the rules. While many bigger agencies have internal review programs, smaller agencies rely on a procurement management review (PMR) to find errors in their contracting programs and identify best practices.

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16 min
January 11, 2023 The Defense Department is urged to get a better handle on its tactical aircraft investments
Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding. To explore the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Marie Mak, GAO's Director of Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Issues.

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19 min
January 10, 2023 Things seem settled in Washington, but federal contractors are still uneasy
Federal employees will be getting a nice raise now. But federal contractors are not totally certain they will be able to get inflation adjustments from their agency customers. That's despite the fact that the defense authorization law specifically mentioned contract modification for inflation relief. What's going on? Federal Drive host Tom Temin checked-in with the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.

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18 min
January 10, 2023 Immigration forms are growing as fast as immigration
For every would-be immigrant to the United States, there is a government form. Or several forms. A recent count of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services forms shows astonishing growth in the number and length of forms. To get some more details on all this, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the Cato Institute's associate director of immigration studies, David Bier.

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18 min