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Tom Temin
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If money is the oxygen of federal programs, then the incoming Trump administration will have to unblock some of the tubing. Data analysis by Govini shows hundreds of billions of dollars in expiring contracts. But billions more are already obligated. Matt Hummer, Govini's director of analytics, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the question of what the new administration can accomplish might depend of how much funding it can get reprogrammed.
January 27, 2017 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, a group of 55 members of Congress plead with President Trump to exempt the Veterans Affairs Department from his ordered hiring freeze.
January 27, 2017 -
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Established in 1975, the Blacks in Government organization has helped African Americans in federal service reach their professional potential and to collaborate on workplace issues such as discrimination. BIG recently elected Doris Sartor as it's 14th president. She works at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in the Civilian Associate Degree program. Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko spoke to Sartor on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the priorities she plans to focus on as BIG's president.
January 26, 2017 -
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Health care providers recently won a big lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services. The providers contended HHS was failing to meet deadlines for settling administrative appeals to Medicare. Now HHS has a big homework assignment from the court. Attorney Scot Hasselman, a partner at Reed Smith, offers insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 26, 2017 -
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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy recently sent a mythbuster memo to contracting officers, encouraging them to up their debriefing game. Terry O'Connor, a partner at the law firm Berenzweig Leonard, shares some tips on giving and receiving good information in debriefs on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 26, 2017 -
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Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) warns the Trump administration not to repeal the law against banned interrogation techniques.
January 26, 2017 -
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The Defense Department has been trying to get a clear sense from the White House about what it wants and does not want in the overseas contingency operations budget. But the last administration's budget office left those decisions for the new administration. So now what? For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to John Pendleton, director of defense capabilities at the Government Accountability Office.
January 25, 2017 -
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Each incoming administration has to put its own imprimatur on the government's online presence.
January 25, 2017 -
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The Defense Department and Veterans Administration tell Congress their still working out the bugs at their joint health care facility in Chicago.
January 25, 2017 -
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The Defense Department is having a particularly tough time integrating mobile technology into its mission, largely because every attempt to link it to the Common-Access-Card has been too cumbersome. But DISA’s Purebred program may have found a way to bypass the CAC altogether.
January 25, 2017 -
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The Defense Department is trying to make benefits administration simpler for reservists. Currently, service members in reserve ranks have more than 30 duty statuses to wade through to figure out what benefits they are entitled to. Often changes in orders lead to gaps in benefits. DoD has a new plan to simplify all of that, and expand benefits.
January 24, 2017 -
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Elizabeth Curda, acting director for health issues at GAO, says overcrowding of the more than 10,000 workers at the Food and Drug Administration's White Oak Campus in Maryland could cause security problems. Curda joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the concern and FDA business pla
January 24, 2017 -
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David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, predicts that proposed changes by lawmakers will likely garner more support from the Trump administration than they did in the Obama administration. Hawkings walks Federal Drive with Tom Temin through the Capitol Hill near-term agenda.
January 24, 2017 -
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary committee, says some agencies often overreach when it comes to rulemaking. Goodlatte is the principal sponsor of the Regulatory Accountability Act, which passed the House earlier this month. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the bill would do and why.
January 24, 2017
