A federal building's disposal. Board has secured yet more time to deal with partially empty office space. The public buildings reform board was supposed to help the General Services Administration identify properties it no longer needs. Congress gave the board six years, but a recently signed law now gives the board an extra year and a half. Federa…

Members of Congress are seeking some more details from the Treasury Department on a recent China connected cyber attack. The hackers were able to access some Treasury workstations after compromising a third party software provider. Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday has the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc…

The first military paycheck of 2025 lands in service members bank accounts. Next week, they'll see one of the biggest increases in decades, 14.5% for junior enlisted service members and 4.5% for everybody else. Some troops will get even bigger raises in the new year, though, on top of the base pay raise, housing allowances are increasing by 5.4% st…

President-elect Trump has promised to use tariffs as economic levers to benefit the U.S. Perhaps strangely, tariffs figure into federal acquisition rules and practices. Lots of things to fulfill federal contracts some from other countries. We get a detailed look now from Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Learn more about your ad choices…

Don't look for the Education Department to disappear after the next Trump administration assumes office. It won't have enough votes in Congress. Still, the department is likely to undergo fairly drastic change. Some predictions now from the director of education policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Rick Hess. Learn more about y…

Among its biggest challenges, the FAA has a constant need to install new equipment while keeping the old stuff going. That task falls members of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialist, PASS. The union represents FAA employees who deal with aging technology and sometimes a shortage of spare parts. PASS told a Senate committee the FAA is too slo…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin A union says the F-A-A doesn't use its own people enough The Education Department won't go away, but it will change under Trump How tariffs could affect federal contractors and procurement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesDe către Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

During his tenure as the Deputy Director for Management at the Biden administration's Office of Management and Budget, Jason Miller faced no bigger issue than how to manage the return to Office for federal employees after the pandemic, not that he didn't deal with 1000 opinions. Miller, whose last day will be January 20, tells Federal News Network'…

Republican presidents often get credit for cutting back on federal regulation. But the most significant de-regulator of modern times just might be the Democrat about to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. In many ways, you can thank Jimmy Carter for that $99 flight to the coast for a quick getaway. A review now from the director of regulatory studies…

When it comes to the government's procurement tab, the General Services Administration is one of the most influential agencies. It manages many of the contracts from which all agencies buy. And it one of the agencies that helps decide governmentwide procurement policy. So what should happen in the Trump administration at the GSA? We get some ideas …

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin A long awaited bill will improve things for veterans Recalling Jimmy Carter, the great de-regulator What to expect at the General Services Administration under Trump Two Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesDe către Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

Veterans groups have praised passage of a bill to expand once again benefits. Congress passed the Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act shortly before Christmas. For how it will help, we turn to the chief policy officer of Paralyzed Veterans of America, Heather Ansley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p…

On today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin: Why Park Police back a bill to modernize, the Park Police This Social Security Administration whistleblower is nothing if not persistent What to expect as the contentious Congress get underway Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

In both the fiscal 2024 and 2025 budget requests, the Biden administration expressed concerns about how pay compression is impacting the senior Federal workforce. The concerns never led to a legislative fix, though a disappointment for federal employees still the Office of Management and Budgets deputy director Jason Miller had some successes to po…

With a new presidential administration and the 119th Congress, both starting in 2025 there are many unknowns in what's to come for the federal workforce, but at least one thing's for certain, federal telework will remain a highly disputed topic. There have already been plenty of bills and memos over what federal telework should look like, and there…

They managed to get a speaker elected without too much drama. Now the one hundred nineteenth Congress has to get down to real business. For what to expect first, we turn to the deputy news director of Bloomberg Government, Loren Duggan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Promotions and other career advancements would come faster for members of the U.S. Park Police under a bill in Congress. The U.S. Park Police Modernization Act was introduced in October. It would bring Park Service personnel practices in line with those of other federal law enforcement agencies. One group supporting this legislation: The National P…

A Social Security whistleblowing employee has been vindicated by the Office of Special Council. John McAdams found that retirees were getting sub-optimal advice from Social Security itself, missing out on substantial benefits they were entitled to. He's been at it a long time. In 2022, John McAdams the special counsel named him Public Servant of th…

It's no surprise, artificial intelligence remained a top storyline over the last 12 months, and probably will continue that way. Agencies detailed 1000 more use cases in the most recent update from the Office of Management and Budget. But the 1700 total use cases are only one reason AI remains big news. We get more now from Federal News Network's e…

As it always does, the National Defense Authorization Act known as the NDAA includes a whole section devoted to federal procurement. We get highlights not from attorney Zach Prince of Haynes Boone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesDe către Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin How the government ought to about critical minerals security What's in the Defense policy bill concerned with procurement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesDe către Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

One thing Republicans and Democrats agree on is the need to have secure, domestic supplies of critical minerals. It's both an economic and national security imperative. So what can the government do to boost reliable domestic supplies? My next guest has studies this question. She's director of the critical materials security program at the Center f…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA is one of the youngest but also fastest growing agencies in government. It faces a murky future though, under the incoming Trump administration and potentially less support from Congress. For more on what might lie ahead for CISA in 2025 Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday Learn more ab…

When citizens have questions for the government, they often turn to their rep in Congress. When Congress has questions, it turns to the Congressional Research Service. Now the CRS has a new director. Karen Donfried joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesDe către Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin After serving in the State Department, she returns to the Congressional branch The armed forces are urged to better evaluate field medicine Here's a much better way to deal with life now and in retirement Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Not all military health care takes places in ideal settings. Sometimes it's needed in what the military calls operational settings. The armed forces exercise varying degrees of how carefully they evaluate provider quality. For more, we turn to the director of health care issues at the Government Accountability Office, Sharon Silas. Learn more about…

If your only consideration for retirement or in your working life, for that matter you're missing out. There's another, equally important consideration. Consider modifying a money-driven goal but adding purpose. Joining me in studio to elaborate R-M-G Advisors Thiago Glieger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Implementation plans for artificial intelligence in the Defense Department are long overdue. That's according to the DoD Office of Inspector General. The IG found confusion over who does what and for more Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis spoke to the IG evaluations and intelligence chief David Edwards. He talked about issues surrounding the Ch…

The Biden administration spent much of this year laying the groundwork for how federal agencies will use artificial intelligence, that includes getting AI experts to join the government in the first place. Well now the incoming administration will chart its own AI course. President Elect Donald Trump is quickly signing on his own AI peeps. Federal …