Tom Temin
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly wants to improve personnel systems for DHS workers to build on improving morale.
April 06, 2017 Maybe the coming warm weather here has you thinking how nice it would be to go to that Tuesday day game. Face it. You've got the retirement bug. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director at the National Institute of Transition Planning, about how to get a jump on planning.
April 05, 2017-
The Navy is supporting its sailors and industry with logistics. At the annual Sea Air Space Symposium, Federal Drive with Tom Temin speaks to Rear Adm. Jon Yuen, commander of the Naval Supply Systems Command, about how the service just set up its P-8 Logistics Cell or LOGCELL this year.
April 05, 2017 -
The proposed cuts from the Trump administration could be an opportunity for agency managers to get creative. With less money to go around, there may be less money to maintain legacy IT systems, so that means updating it or utilizing other methods may be the best route. Federal News Radio's Eric White learns more from Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 05, 2017 -
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, introduced the DoD Cyber Scholarship Program Act, which would help increase the number of people in the armed services trained in cybersecurity. Rounds fills in the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 04, 2017 -
Like nearly every agency, the Marine Corps is trying to save money on its IT and software. Bill Williford, executive director of the Marine Corps Systems Command, spoke with Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione on Federal Drive with Tom Temin from the 2017 Sea Air Space Symposium in National Harbor, Maryland.
April 04, 2017 -
The Coast Guard almost faced a $1 billion cut to its funding in President Donald Trump's 2018 budget. The service avoided that peril, but there are plenty of other things for the Coast Guard to work on. Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, spoke with Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione on Federal Drive with Tom Temin at the Sea Air Space Symposium in National Harbor, Maryland.
April 04, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, an audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS miscalculated the pay for hundreds of employees.
April 04, 2017 -
Modernization can mean a lot of things, even if you keep your COBOL systems.
April 04, 2017 Although the Trump administration has been filling itself in, the General Services Administration is still lacking an administrator and commissioners for its big services. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what this all means.
April 03, 2017-
The Strategic Capabilities Office is one of the most lauded organizations in the Defense Department. And its leader says his office doesn’t have to worry about acquisition requirements like the rest of the Pentagon establishment.
April 03, 2017 -
U.S. Customs and Immigration Services conducts millions of Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) checks each year. But the program has some big holes. Rebecca Gambler, director of homeland security and justice issues at the Government Accountability Office, fills in the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 03, 2017 -
Gary Schmitt, director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how a big information leak at the CIA is still possible in the post-Edward Snowden era.
April 03, 2017 -
The Veterans Affairs Department wants to immediately fire a VA medical center employee who was caught watching pornography while with a patient.
April 03, 2017 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finalized a rule requiring companies to file their data using XBRL, which stands for extensible markup language. Mike Starr, vice president for government and regulatory affairs at the financial compliance firm Workiva, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what this all means.
March 31, 2017