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Also in today's Federal Newscast, NIST is updating cybersecurity standards, and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife employee gets caught lying about PPP loans.
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.
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.
Hutch, an incubator based in Baltimore, Maryland, seeks to develop minority- and women-owned technical services companies for federal contracting.
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.
In today's Federal Newscast: With attacks on postal workers increasing, congress steps in. Congress also moves to get injured federal first responders their retirement benefits. And get ready for travel advisories about being taken hostage abroad.
A White House task force has recommendations to improve federal unions, but NTEU's national president tells Federal News Network it's time to start implementing them.
The Internal Revenue Service, halfway through a six-year IT modernization campaign, hasn’t received the funding it sought from Congress in order to retire some of the oldest running systems in the federal government.
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.
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.
A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the US losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen.
In today's Federal Newscast: Some federal agencies just found out they overlooked nearly a half billion dollars in uncollected debts. Dr. Anthony Fauci admits he's caught the retirement virus. And CISA hangs up a shingle in London.
Although DLA and SBA have worked together on similar NMR waivers for many years, we recognize that SBA has recently taken exception to how the program has been implemented.
In a bit of progress for regular order, the House last week managed to pass its version of the National Defense Authorization Act. And, members will get down to the 2023 spending bills this week.