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Amy Millman, managing partner at StageNext joins Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to discuss the importance of being a leader and mentor to other businesswomen.
August 03, 2022 -
President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak
August 01, 2022 -
The Coast Guard Academy has reached a record for its incoming class, with 43% of the new swabs being women.
July 29, 2022 -
In 2020, ISIS made website to sell face masks. A team from the FBI, IRS and DHS stopped and seized 300 cryptocurrency accounts worth $2 million. They're finalists for Service to America Medals and one team member joined the Federal Drive.
July 28, 2022 -
Large and heavy as they might be, the Navy's ships are affected by weather. Operations and planning depend on knowing what the weather will bring.
July 25, 2022 -
Federal employees, no less than people in other occupations, sometimes have to deal with pain resulting from injuries. In recent years, many of them have become addicted to opioids. Thanks to the work of my next guest, over the past five years the number of federal employees using opioids has dropped by 58%. For his work, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. Antonio Rios, the division director of Federal Employees', Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation at the Department of Labor, talked with Federal Drive host Tom Temin.
July 21, 2022 -
The Postal Service’s regulatory agency has fired its first chief data officer, in light of pending felony charges following his arrest in San Diego, California.
July 12, 2022 -
A round up of federal technology executives from GSA, NOAA, the FBI and others who have been “on the move” over the last few months and that you may have missed.
July 12, 2022 -
This guest has what might be one of the most consequential federal jobs of all. No, not cabinet secretary or tax commissioner. He's the new director of the National Weather Service, and he came up through the ranks as a meteorologist and forecaster.
July 11, 2022 -
Agencies across the board have been turning to innovation challenges to come up with fresh answers to old problems. Now the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, part of the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a challenge. SAMHSA is looking for new approaches to behavioral health recovery.
July 06, 2022 -
If copyrights are a measure of women's long-term rise in economic participation, trends show progress but still a ways to go. A recent study by the U.S. Copyright Office shows that over a 40-year period, women's share of registrations rose from 28%, to 38% in 2020.
July 05, 2022 -
A summary of how some federal agencies and the armed forces are celebrated Independence Day
July 04, 2022 -
The United States is helping Ukraine militarily, but only indirectly. When it comes to health care for the besieged Ukrainians, the aid and cooperation are more direct. Much of the work falls to the Health and Human Services Department.
July 01, 2022 -
When a civil war broke out in Ethiopia back in 2020, my next guest worked overtime to ensure humanitarian aid got to those who are desperate for it, and to try and mitigate some of the human rights abuses. Now, he's a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. He's the director of the office of East African affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
June 23, 2022 -
AmeriCorps is the government's premier agency for engaging volunteers of all ages to help with the nation's pressing problems. At the end of last year, it got an energetic new CEO when the Senate confirmed Michael Smith
June 23, 2022