Federal Drive with Tom Temin

Tea leaves indicate a 4.6% pay raise for federal employees next year. House Democrats are pushing for 5.1%. At least one big union says that given inflation that's not enough. Is 4.6 or 5.1 only the starting point? Federal News Network's Drew Friedman put that question to the president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Tony Reardon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Customs and Border Protection sometimes faces distrust, even antagonism, among citizens and non-citizens officers encounter. To help ease this problem, CBP created a new position called senior community relations manager. The person taking on that job is Nawar Shora. Tom Temin talked to Mr. Shora on THE FEDERAL DRIVE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With small business federal spending goals on the rise, it seems like a good time for small and disadvantaged companies to take a shot at federal business. A self-styled incubator called Hutch, based in Baltimore, Maryland, seeks to develop minority- and women-owned technical services companies. Hutch founder Delali Dzirasa talked about it with Federal Drive Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Office of Personnel Management doesn't hire people to work at federal agencies. But it has a lot of influence over how agencies hire people. And it provides crucial shared services to help agencies manage their workforces. This year the Government Accountability Office added three high priority recommendations for OPM to improve things. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about it with GAO's director of strategic issues, Michelle Sager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Office of Personnel Management doesn't hire people to work at federal agencies. But it has a lot of influence over how agencies hire people. And it provides crucial shared services to help agencies manage their workforces. This year the Government Accountability Office added three high priority recommendations for OPM to improve things. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about it with GAO's director of strategic issues, Michelle Sager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate works to develop new technologies and get them into commercial production. A lot of work has focused on technologies to speed up airport screening and make it more accurate. Now a unit of Science and Technology has won an interagency partnership award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. Specifically, high definition advanced imaging and shoe scanner technology. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with the program manager John Fortune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The intelligence community is updating training standards and reviewing historical data to ensure the process of obtaining a security clearance isn’t a barrier to hiring and retaining more women, minorities and other individuals from diverse backgrounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the U.S. losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen. Federal Drive host talked about this with federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The government market is recession proof. But that doesn't mean contractors don't fight tooth-and-nail for federal business. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke about that with the leader at one of the major contractors: CEO of Peraton, Stu Shea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recent interview Tom Temin conducted with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) suggested that agency inspectors general are not prepared to oversee the hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spending coming their way. Federal Drive host Temin talked about this with the assistant inspector general for audits at the EPA, Katherine Trimble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recent interview with the Project on Government Oversight said agency inspectors general are not prepared to oversee the hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spending coming their way. Assistant Inspector General for Audits at the Environmental Protection Agency Katherine Trimble disagrees. She explains why on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The government market is recession proof. But that doesn't mean contractors don't fight tooth-and-nail for federal business. For what the scene looks like from the standpoint of one of the majors, CEO of Peraton Stu Shea joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the U.S. losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen. Federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cyber Safety Review Board’s first ever report gives high marks to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for leading the response to the Log4j vulnerability, while warning that the software bug will continue to haunt systems for many more years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The General Services Administration is once again struggling with a major systems modernization project, causing an increasingly high level of frustration among vendors and grantees. Now, a powerful congressman is demanding answers about why three months into the transition to the new way for vendors to identify themselves for federal contract or grant awards, GSA hasn’t resolved serious issues with the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices