The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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October 05, 2022 Industry can live with the latest orders on secure software development
Industry groups seem to support the Biden administration's September 14 memo on secure software development. It lays out a detailed way for agencies to acquire software so they're, in theory, assured of the security of the software supply chain. To discuss this, Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with Gordon Bitko, the senior vice president of policy at the Information Technology Industry Council.

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22 min
October 05, 2022 State Department ‘virtualizing everything’ to assess Foreign Service candidates
The State Department, once a relative stranger to telework for most functions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, is taking steps to allow Foreign Service candidates to participate in some assessments virtually. Don Bauer, the chief technology officer of the department’s Global Talent Management Bureau, said the bureau is “virtualizing everything” it does to assess Foreign Service candidates, in an effort to diversify its pool of applicants.

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21 min
October 05, 2022 Retiring after nearly 40 years, GAO Public Affairs Specialist Fuller O. "Ned" Griffith has stories to tell...
Tom Temin almost never interviews Public Affairs Officers on the Federal Drive. In fact, Temin said, "I never have. They're never the story." Federal Drive host Tom Temin did make an exception recently. One of the most enduring Public Affairs Specialists -- and someone Federal News Network has worked with steadily for many years -- retired. So Temin wanted him to tell his story. He's Fuller O. Griffith, better known as Ned, from the Government Accountability Office.

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23 min
October 04, 2022 The Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department is managing and measuring risk in a whole new way
Where once risk management was just a matter for the chief financial officer, now the bureau's entire senior leadership cadre is involved. Nicole Puri is the bureau's chief risk office and the past president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management. She tells executive editor Jason Miller about how enterprise risk management has spread into a range of agency functions, even budgeting.

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21 min
October 04, 2022 IG community looking at its own DEIA efforts
The Inspector General community is taking a closer look at diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility trends in their own offices. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, CIGIE, created a DEIA working group in 2020. Many IGs have expressed interest. For what the working group is looking at to advance diversity. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman spoke with Education IG and working group chairwoman Sandra Bruce, and FDIC IG Jay Lerner, who's the groups' vice chairman. You'll hear Bruce first.

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19 min
October 04, 2022 Federal contractors are already thinking about December 16, when the continuing resolution expires
Contractors are nervous about the Continuing Resolution the government has been operating under since Saturday. Perhaps more troubling is the expiration of the research and development tax credit of 100%. Now it's back to 20% and that has big ramifications, according to Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest for this interview: David Berteau, President and CEO of the Professional Services Council.

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22 min
October 04, 2022 A conversation with Catherine Emerson, the Justice Department's deputy attorney general and chief human capital officer
Federal employees on the front lines of national security and law enforcement sometimes need a bit more care and attention than others. This interview guest of Federal Drive host Tom Temin is Catherine Emerson, who has a had a long career in this branch of human resources. The former chief human capital officer of the Homeland Security Department is now deputy attorney general and chief human capital officer at the Justice Department. She and Tom discussed what it takes to provide good employee experience.

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19 min
October 04, 2022 Now that it has a quorum, a progress report from the Merit Systems Protection Board
After several years of vacancy, the Merit Systems Protection Board has a full complement of three members who, after their Senate confirmations, faced a backlog of thousands of appeals to decisions that had been made by administrative law judges. What's it been like? To find out, Federal Drive host was joined in studio by MSPB member Tristan Leavitt.

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25 min
October 03, 2022 Congress steps off the government shutdown cliff. So now what?
You're at work today. That's the good news. It went down to the wire, but Congress managed to get that continuing resolution passed. It lasts until December 16. For what comes next, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Jack Fitzpatrick, Bloomberg Government Congress reporter.

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21 min
October 03, 2022 A conservation group is glad the Bureau of Land Management is moving back to D.C.
Lots of people were unhappy, when, during the Trump administration, the Bureau of Land Management headquarters moved from Washington D.C. to Grand Junction, Colorado. The idea was to put management near the lands they oversee. At least one support group, the Public Lands Foundation, is happy BLM is moving back to D.C. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the foundation's president, Mary Jo Rugwell.

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21 min

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