The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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January 10, 2023 Social Security commits to a new website design it hopew will improve customer experience
The customer experience drive has not been lost on the Social Security Administration. Few if any agencies exceed the 180 million online visitors SSA receives every year. Now Social Security has made a significant upgrade to its public website to make it easier to use. To get the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with SSA's acting chief business officer, Eric Powers.

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18 min
January 10, 2023 OPM finding ways to better engage agency’s internal hybrid workforce
The Office of Personnel Management is ramping up work on IT modernization for both its main website and federal retirement services, but those are not the only changes coming from the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer.

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19 min
January 09, 2023 VBA looks to hire thousands more employees to speed up benefits claims processing
The Department of Veterans Affairs expects to keep growing its benefits division’s workforce through the end of the fiscal year, now that it’s able to tackle a trove of veterans’ claims that’s been growing since the summer. The VA on Jan. 1 started processing all claims submitted under the PACT Act, which enables a historic expansion of eligibility for VA health care and benefits.

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15 min
January 09, 2023 Speaking of the House: What's in store for the 118th Congress?
Besides the tragedy-comedy drama over selection of a House Speaker, there is a rather potent agenda for the 118th Congress. Authorizations. Appropriations are so far off. Debt ceiling. And the gambits Republicans in the house are hoping to launch. To cover it all in 10 minutes, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.

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19 min
January 09, 2023 A playbook for the government to force the end of gas appliances
Should the government use its footprint in the mortgage market and disaster relief to force electrification of homes and schools? One froup called Rewiring America thinks so, and it has a long list of agenda items. To find out more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Rewiring America's research director Stephen Pantano.

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17 min
January 09, 2023 The Forest Service claims progress in the effort to control western wildfires
The Forest Services, part of the Agriculture Department, is in the midst of a 10-year effort to better prevent wildfires, the kinds of seemingly out-of-control blazes that have charred millions of acres out west. With six months until the peak danger season, Federal Drive host Tom Temin checks-in with the strategy's program manager, Brian Ferebee.

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20 min
January 06, 2023 GSA surged resources to meet inflation-related schedule modifications, now onto longer term improvements
Erv Koehler, the assistant commissioner of the Office of General Supplies and Services in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said upgrades to the pricing tool, the catalog and a pilot around creating a market basket will help improve the schedules program.

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19 min
January 06, 2023 Calling all farmers: USDA wants to know how your last harvest went
Every five years, the Agriculture Department releases a census to gauge U.S. farms and ranches, as well as the people who operate them. The questionnaire is issued and catalogued by USDA's National Agriculture Statistics Service. To find out what it entails, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the head of NASS, Huber Hamer.

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18 min
January 06, 2023 The TSP board says it isn't done touching up its new website.
The board overseeing the federal Thrift Savings Plan has been working for six months to fix bugs in its brand new website launched last June. Many functions have been improved, but customers say there's still work to be done. For an update, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the board's external affairs director, Kim Weaver.

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16 min
January 06, 2023 Air Force researchers develop a new approach to secure information delivery
An enduring challenge for military IT people: getting just the right information securely to people who need it, especially in contested environments. Now researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate think they have a solution. It's called robust information provisioning layer, or RIPL. To find out more about it, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with program manager Brian Holmes.

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21 min

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