Federal Drive with Tom Temin

Contractors have long urged agencies to expand the debriefings they give to losing bidders after making an award. In one recent case, an enhanced debriefing lead to a turnover in the award. The new award turned out to be protest proof. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about the project, worth tens of millions of dollars, with Joe Petrillo, Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manned and unmanned aircraft operating safely together is still an air traffic control challenge. It's a step closer to a solution thanks to an award-winning project at a federally funded research and development center know as FFRDC. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked to someone who shed light project, Wes Olson, a retired Air Force officer, who is now a group leader at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal community lost a peerless reporter and friend this week. Longtime Federal News Network columnist Mike Causey died on Monday at 82. Before joining the Federal News Network team in the early 2000s, Mike wrote his daily Federal Diary column in The Washington Post for 40 years. Since joining our newsroom in the early 2000s, Causey wrote and went on the air about matters crucial to federal employees, including salary and benefits issues, investing, health care and retirement planning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it was used during the height of the pandemic -- or if it is used now -- because of its convenience, telehealth has become a mainstay in the healthcare field. The Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Health and Human Services Department, is trying to spread the word about its resources available to help people understand telehealth and the implications of using it. For more, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with the Director for the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth at HRSA Heather Dimeris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5G, the latest wireless communication technology, has started to change how agencies think about networks, both from a physical infrastructure standpoint and for how it can enhance service to employees and constituents. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about this with a man at the forefront of this thinking at the Veterans Affairs Department. He is Dr. Tom Osborne, Director of VA's National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic changed federal banking regulations. Mainly because auditors could not go to banks in person to check the books and the procedures. Regulators figured out a way to do remote bank supervision, but they all did not update their risk profiles, according to the Government Accountability Office. To find out more about what GAO uncovered, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Michael Clements, GAO's director of financial markets and community investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board highlighted its efforts to remove barriers to better understanding Thrift Savings Plan services for some underserved groups. The board aimed to find out how participants’ salaries affected their understanding of TSP, as well as their likelihood to make changes to their TSP contributions, in a recent study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board highlighted its efforts to remove barriers to better understanding Thrift Savings Plan services for some underserved groups. The board aimed to find out how participants’ salaries affected their understanding of TSP, as well as their likelihood to make changes to their TSP contributions, in a recent study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Department of Navy has more than a dozen reference architectures ranging from zero trust to cybersecurity to the Joint All Domain Command and Control or JADC2 program. The problem is very few people who are developing systems in these areas reads or understands these often complex and dry documents. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about how the Department of Navy is trying something new to drive standardization around application development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a bit of a nerve wracking time for contractors. Congress is currently flirting with the possibility of a government shutdown, as well as the potential yearlong Continuing Resolution no one wants. Add to that the fact that inflation is making it harder to conduct business and getting permission to increase prices remains difficult. For an idea of how to handle these obstacles, the Federal Drive's Eric White with Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Union arbitrators routinely reinstate fired federal employees who grieve their dismissals, according to an analysis of cases conducted by a think tank. The conservative-leaning America First Policy Institute said the arbitrators' rate of reinstatement is way higher than that of the Merit Systems Protection Board. For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with director of the Institute's Center for American Freedom, James Sherk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Million Veteran Program of the Veterans Affairs Department doesn't quite have a million participants. Not quite yet. But it did recently reach 900,000, when a retired reservist and purple heart recipient joined up. For an update on what VA calls its largest research project ever, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with program director Suma Muralidhar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The continuing resolution to keep the government's lights on next week. It's hitting some last minute political hurdles related to, of all things, the so-called inflation reduction act. For details on this and other critical matters in Congress, WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Management of new information technology: It's always been a challenge in the federal government. Now a new course at the University of Maryland's business school aims to fix that. Many federal career mangers have voiced a need for such a course. Joining me with more about it, professor and assistant dean Joe Bailey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Management of new information technology: It's always been a challenge in the federal government. Now a new course at the University of Maryland's business school aims to fix that. Many federal career mangers have voiced a need for such a course. Joining me with more about it, professor and assistant dean Joe Bailey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices