On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: A new 911 system for antitrust violations in the health care industry. A researcher helps turn masses of forest data into useful pictures. How the pandemic changed technology at the IRS for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

With too much data, you can lose sight of the forest for the trees. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest revolutionized the ability of the U.S. Forest Service to visualize, as useful information, the mass of data from aerial surveillance. For his work, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program: Research Forester Robert McGaug…

The federal agencies in charge of cracking down on anti-competitive behavior have already agreed to work together on health care issues. Now, they are looking for tips from the public. The Federal Trade Commission, Health and Human Services, and the Justice Department launched HealthyCompetition.com last month. It is for people who have a good reas…

A rule going back several years, lets Defense Department contracting officers treat stuff from so-called non-traditional vendors --known as NCDs -- as commercial. Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. For why this matters, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with Haynes & Boone procurem…

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) says it is working to strengthen its internal financial control practices. That is after a Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit found FHFA’s financial statements miscalculated the agencies obligations under the Federal Employee Compensation Act. And the way it happened might offer a cautionary tale …

The more nations launch satellites into space, the more crowded the orbit layers become, especially in the burgeoning low-earth orbit. NASA has a Space Environment Sustainability Advisory Board to help guide policy for an area of space that is starting to look like the Beltway at rush hour. The board has defined the problem in terms of five challen…

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: NASA worries not just about space, but about space sustainability. Internal financial control problems can afflict agencies large and small. Why DoD treats non-traditional innovation suppliers as just plain commercial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

The Office of the National Cyber Director is working with agencies to accelerate efforts to “clean up” insecure internet routing techniques that can lead to cybersecurity risks. White House National Cyber Director Harry Coker expects that more than half of all advertised federal IP space will adopt more secure routing agreements by the end of this …

After a governmentwide update to the Pathways Program, the Department of Health and Human Services is already looking at how to start implementing the new flexibilities into its program. But many of those flexibilities, which the Office of Personnel Management finalized in April, are optional, rather than required. That means it depends on an agenc…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a request for proposals that industry finds puzzling. CMS terminated an existing call center contractor after two years. That award had taken three years to establish. CMS is requiring re-compete contractors to have labor harmony agreements. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin looks into th…

After more than 20 years at the Office of Management and Budget, the man interviewed in-studio by Federal Drive Host Tom Temin, jumped from the frying pan into the fire. He recently took the job of chief operating officer and acting chief of staff at the Social Security Administration. Among federal agencies, SSA ranks dead last in a recent survey …

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: A two-part interview with a career federal management policy guy, who just took over one of the biggest management challenges in government. This new Health and Human Services request for proposals has industry up in arms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Congress is on recess this week, as the summer season gets underway. Yet on the House side, appropriations work is well on the way. And you can expect a floor vote on an equally important bill as soon as next week. For an update, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan. Learn more about your ad…

The big military story for the United States concerns the ongoing recruitment crisis. Not enough young people are joining up, so the armed services are revamping their marketing approaches. One company helping in that effort is called the Refuel Agency. To find out more about this effort, Federal Drive Host talked with Refuel's Senior Vice Presiden…

With cyber attacks on the rise against healthcare organizations, Congress is starting to notice. Serious attacks have tripled since 2018, in some cases interrupting service and extracting ransom payments. Bipartisan legislation would give the Health and Human Service Department a specific task in helping prevent these attacks. For details, Federal …

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: Congress shows concern for healthcare cyber attacks. This marketing agency is helping the armed services with recruitment. Congress takes a breather with many plates spinning in the air Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

The latest Best Places to Work results from the Partnership for Public Service are pretty promising — employee engagement is ticking upward for the first time in years, with many familiar agencies still topping the rankings. But there are other pockets of success at agencies that don’t always see the spotlight. During a Best Places to Work event ce…

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On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: The CDC slimmed down and pumped up its website in time for summer The old issue of software licensing comes up anew in a hearing Veterans Affairs could improve how it assess patients when they leave its hospitals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Next month, Microsoft president Brad Smith will appear before the House Homeland Security Committee. He'll answer questions about the company's recent nation-state cyberattacks and new internal security strategy. This is after a Homeland Security report highlighting some of the flaws. Could licensing practices be a cause? That's the feeling of grou…

The Veterans Affairs office of inspector general has revealed a fundamental way to improve care. It has to do with how medical staff assess patients about to be discharged. The OIG has recommended a national policy to use social determinants of health, and health-related social needs, when evaluating patients. Here with why this is so important, de…

National Safety Month is nearly here, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is reminding workplaces across the country to stay vigilant about risks, whether bombings to insider cyber threats. CISA is also developing new physical security goals for critical infrastructure organizations. To learn more, Federal News Network’s Justin…

The Office of Personnel Management finds itself defending a recently finalized rule meant to prevent the return of Schedule F. That’s a Trump-era policy that made it easier to fire career certain federal employees in policy jobs. OPM’s acting director says the re-emergence of such a policy would worsen problems recruiting and retaining federal empl…

Transportation safety in the United States has grown safer, thanks in part to work A GAO superstar. She's overseen work ranging from diversity in crash test dummies to preventing catastrophic train wrecks. More broadly, she's ridden herd on transportation-related spending under the trillion dollar infrastructure law. For her work, she's a finalist …