The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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November 07, 2022 Tomorrow's vote has a lot of nerves on edge on Capitol Hill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband is recovering. But the attack at the Pelosi home in San Francisco has Congress rattled once again about security. More anxiety comes from the possibility of a party switch in the House or Senate or both. To take a look at all of this, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Mitchell Miller, Capitol Hill Correspondent for WTOP.

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23 min
November 07, 2022 How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards
We are all familiar with that ubiquitous fast-food-chain sign: "Billions and Billions Served." The same could be said of federal disaster spending. Millions and millions of awards, billions and billions of dollars. The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, made up of inspectors general, recently launched a group of dashboards to help people see which agencies got how much money and where all that money went. To explore the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Michael Horowitz, Justice Department IG and PRAC chairman.

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30 min
November 04, 2022 The troubled F-35 jet sure spreads the money around
No one knows what the F-35 aircraft can do in a war, say, over Taiwan. One thing we do know is the fifth-generation fighter, now something like 20 years in development, has economic significance. Something like $72 billion F-35 dollars is spread throughout the U.S. economy every year. For more details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Kevin Michaels, the managing director of AeroDymanic Advisory.

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20 min
November 04, 2022 Nurses at one Veterans Affairs facility win a double-digit pay increase
Registered nurses working for the Veterans Health Administration in Las Vegas recently got a 12% raise. This after promising to hold a big rally. That got management to sit down with the Title 38 employees. For the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Linda Ward-Smith, president of Local 1224 of the American Federation of Government Employees.

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19 min
November 04, 2022 The Federal CIO talks about her office's governmentwide operating plan
They're operating under a continuing resolution, but agency information technology staffs are working hard on modernizing. Recently the office of the Federal Chief Information Officer came out with what it called a governmentwide operating plan. CIO Clare Martorana said the plan should not be confused with a strategy. At the recent ACT-IAC executive leadership conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin caught up with Martorana and asked what the difference is between a plan and a strategy.

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25 min
November 04, 2022 Advocacy groups raise concerns about federal pay system amid growing wage gap
Federal employees’ wages are falling further behind those in the private sector, according to new data from the Federal Salary Council.The council reported that in 2022, federal workers earned 24.09% less in wages alone than their private sector counterparts. In 2021, the pay gap by the same measurement was 22.47%. In comparison, the Biden administration’s federal pay raise request is 4.6% for next year, composed of a 4.1% overall increase and a 0.5% pay locality increase. The National Treasury Employees Union, in light of the council’s report, reemphasized its push for an even larger federal pay increase in 2023.

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21 min
November 03, 2022 HUD emphasizing need to do front-end fraud risk assessments for programs
Elliott Johnson Jr. is a senior management analyst in the HUD's Office of the Chief Risk Officer. He tells executive editor Jason Miller about a new tool that will help mature the agency’s processes, and reduce fraud.

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21 min
November 03, 2022 How government email systems screw up contract bid solicitations
As long as the government has had competitive procurement, one rule has stood firm. If a bid comes in late, tough luck for that bidder. But the rule got harder to interpret when email replaced hand-delivered envelopes or faxes. What if a server crashed? What if a bid got stopped by a spam filter? Now a new case has muddied the rule. For the details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Zach Prince, Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney.

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21 min
November 03, 2022 What your agency can expect if the government gets redivided after the midterms
If the Senate or the House (or both) switch to Republican control come January, you can expect a different approach to government oversight. To explore specifics and possibilities, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Molly Reynolds, the senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.

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21 min
November 03, 2022 An accomplished federal CFO has a forum to share lessons learned
No agency can operate effectively without a solid financial framework. That's where chief financial officers come in. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with someone who has operated as a CFO at large federal agencies and at two major universities. At the moment Gwendolyn Sykes is the CFO of the Secret Service and a new follow at the National Academy of Public Administration or NAPA.

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22 min

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