Tom Temin

  • Like all new presidents, Donald Trump has promised much. Like his predecessors, he and his team will soon find out that to carry out its ideas, an administration has to pay attention to basic management realities. Tom Romeo, general manager of the U.S. federal services segment of Maximus, has spent 30 years on the contracting side of federal initiatives. He offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    January 19, 2017
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, after a 16-year battle, the federal government has agreed to pay a $24 million settlement in a discrimination case against the Secret Service.

    January 19, 2017
  • All eyes might be on Donald Trump on Inauguration Day, but in reality, the transition involves thousands of people. As in a business merger or acquisition, the hard work comes after the fact. Both career civil servants and politically appointed transition teams can benefit from the lessons learned, as Greg Pellegrino, a customer strategy expert and principal at Deloitte Consulting, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    January 19, 2017
  • Friday's inauguration might mark the final end of the long election season, but it's just in time for the madness — merchandise madness, that is.

    January 19, 2017
  • Ultimately, a good workplace is about relationships among people. With the stress of transition about to hit, along with a possible hiring freeze, now is a good time for career leadership to re-engage with the workforce. Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some tips for effective ways to do that.

    January 18, 2017
  • Mint people tend to have a strong sense of their agency. It's old, and it does work we couldn't live without.

    January 18, 2017
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission releases guidance for agencies to consider to ensure fair discrimination hearings and appeals.

    January 18, 2017
  • While the Senate has been spending a lot of time on hearings for the nominees of President-elect Donald Trump, Congress as a whole has also been busy on its own affairs and how it will manage the government. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.

    January 17, 2017
  • The defined pension plan has been a remarkably durable feature of federal civil service for a long time. But noise coming from the 115th Congress suggests big changes for the pension system. Higher employee contributions and even ending the defined benefit pension plan altogether are on the table. Tammy Flanagan, senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning, shares her insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    January 17, 2017
  • The 18F technology development group at the General Services Administration went from being a high flying bunch of whiz kids to money losing boondoggle hiring scores of people it couldn't support. Tom VanAntwerp, director of IT for the Tax Foundation, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with why it might be premature to deep-six 18F.

    January 17, 2017
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, all of the representatives who chair House committees with jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Department sign an agreement to regularly reauthorize, reform, and improve the agency.

    January 17, 2017
  • It's an unusual week we're having, book-ended by Monday's celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Friday's inauguration of Donald J.Trump as president.

    January 17, 2017
  • Wave after wave of reform of the security clearance backlog system has crashed on bureaucratic rocks. Now government agencies and companies with a need for cleared people are awaiting the launch of the National Background Investigation Bureau. David Berteau, CEO of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his take on NBIB.

    January 16, 2017
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Congressional Budget Office provides new analysis on how much spending by the Defense Department for Operations and Maintenance has starkly risen since 2000.

    January 16, 2017