The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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October 20, 2022 Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh talks about DEIA issues with FNN's Drew Friedman
The Agriculture Department is making a big push for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. It just established a six-step strategic plan for DEIA. This as the agency also tries to rebuild its workforce after attrition during the Trump administration. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman got the details from USDA Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh.

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25 min
October 20, 2022 White House leaders see ‘momentum’ in ambitious federal cybersecurity overhaul
The effort to overhaul federal cyber defenses has “momentum” behind it, most notably in helping agencies distill broad cybersecurity objectives into specific technology investments as part of the annual budgeting process, according to White House leaders. Federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha said the White House’s zero trust strategy gives cybersecurity leaders the ability to “disaggregate and do strategy-based budgeting all the way down to a technology investment.”

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21 min
October 20, 2022 What exactly should federal policy be when it comes to integrated circuits?
Congress recently agreed to throw tens of billions of dollars at the semiconductor industry. The idea was to expand production of vital circuits in the United States. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with someone who has done extensive analysis of the chip industry and says there should be more to policy than national security. He's assistant professor of management at Radford University, Zach Collier.

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21 min
October 20, 2022 How to make citizens feel good about federal call centers
Call centers, those invisible nests of operators that purport to help citizens with questions about government services, are a bane to agency after agency. Calls don't get picked up. Or people make a pot of coffee while on hold. Questions aren't answered. Callers get bounced from operator to operator. Worst of all, those badly-designed automatic call routers. There's gotta be a better way. Federal Drive host Tom Temin looked into how to make call centers more empathetic, with Deloitte Consulting's Marc Mancher.

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23 min
October 20, 2022 They teach military members' kids. Now they'd like a contract.
The Department of Defense Education Activity, or DODEA, employs 500 teacher for the children of service members stationed in Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Bahrain. The teachers, part of a bargaining unit called the Overseas Federation of Teachers, haven't had a new contract in 28 years. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with someone who knows what the teacher want: President of the Overseas Federation of Teachers, Linda Hogan.

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22 min
October 19, 2022 Feds nearing retirement: Is it always a good idea to pay off that mortgage?
Federal employees have family and professional lives. They also have financial lives. Today we're inaugurating a monthly talk with a man who has long experience in federal financial management and investment strategies. He was a regular on our Federal News Network show, "Your Turn," hosted by the late Mike Causey. Now he'll be a monthly guest here on the Federal Drive. For his inaugural interview in this space, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talks with financial planner Arthur Stein.

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22 min
October 19, 2022 The GSA stuggles to keep a real estate sale program on track
The General Services Administration has completed two rounds of a three-round plan to sell off unneeded federal buildings. It hasn't gone well, according to Congressional auditors. Sales took too long, and a special recommendation board said it therefore didn't have the money to discover other buildings to sell. Can this program get on track? For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the acting director of physical infrastructure issues at the Government Accountability Office, Jill Naamane.

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22 min
October 19, 2022 A look inside the small but potent Office of Special Counsel
The Office of Special Counsel, which handles whistleblower and Hatch Act Cases, is something of an enigma to many federal managers. The law firm Shaw Bransford and Roth, which produces the weekly FEDTalk Show here on Federal News Network, has organized what federal managers need to know to better handle OSC investigations. For the highlights, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Shaw Bransford senior counsel James Heelan.

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21 min
October 19, 2022 Federal judge finalizes $63 million settlement for OPM data breach victims
Victims of one of the largest data breaches to ever hit the federal government are one step closer to a payout, more than seven years later.
A federal judge on Friday finalized the Office of Personnel Management’s settlement agreement with current and former federal employees, as well as federal job applicants, impacted by a major data breach in 2015.District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a fairness hearing at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said the $63 million settlement for breach victims was “fair, reasonable and adequate.”

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20 min
October 19, 2022 For 2023, federal retirees will see largest COLA increase in over 40 years
Federal retirees and Social Security recipients are about to get the largest increase in their cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in over four decades.The COLA will increase 8.7% for 2023, the Social Security Administration announced on Oct. 13. But not all federal retirees will see that amount added to their checks. Those in the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) will receive a 7.7% COLA starting in January.

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21 min

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