Tom Temin
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Some critics worry about potential conflicts of interest between a Trump administration and the Trump Organization. Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what ethics rules require of any elected official.
December 12, 2016 -
The Veterans Health Administration has an elaborate planning process to come up with its strategic goals. Great, but headquarters might be getting in the way of the medical centers and other providers actually carrying them out. Debra Draper, director of health care issues at the Government Accountability Office, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 12, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) unveils a bill that he says will help the Social Security program become more fiscally solvent.
December 12, 2016 -
Long speeches and piecemeal civil service reform mark the waning days of the 114th Congress.
December 12, 2016 -
Jackie Space, founder of a Silicon Valley company called BMNT, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin, federal managers often blame the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) for getting in the way of collaboration between government and industry. Space advises using authorities already in the FAR to try non-traditional relationships.
December 09, 2016 -
The the internship program at the U.S. National Central Bureau, the U.S. component of INTERPOL, gives participants a chance to see and experience law enforcement in the real world. The program even includes field trips with shooting and yelling. Wayne Salzgaber, the acting director of INTERPOL Washington and Justice Department interns, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the program.
December 09, 2016 -
The Food and Drug Administration has a special, streamlined process for approving generics. Trouble is, the public announcements of FDA's decisions often get bottled up. Attorney Kurt Karst, a director at Hyman, Phelps and McNamara, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that irritates and frustrates everyone, including drug companies, investors, federal judges and the public.
December 09, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the space agency wants to give contractors who perform well on a consistent basis an award for doing so.
December 09, 2016 -
President-elect Donald Trump's nominations for Defense, Homeland Security and National Security Advisor touch off Washington star wars.
December 08, 2016 -
The 21st Century Cures Act is now wrapping up in Congress and headed to the President's desk. It would profoundly change how the Food and Drug Administration goes about its principal work of approving drugs and medical devices. Dr. Tom Coburn, former Oklahoma senator and now a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the bill and its goals.
December 08, 2016 -
The Program Management Improvement Accountability Act is on the President's desk now and it would, in the first place, recognize program management for the importance it has in agency mission delivery. Rob Burton, partner at the law firm Crowell and Moring and a former deputy administrator the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his insight.
December 08, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, Senators and Representatives from Maryland and Virginia plead with President Obama for a bigger pay raise for federal employees next year.
December 08, 2016 -
The federal government has a growing backlog of unawarded contracts. Information technology represents the lion's share of the potential business.
December 07, 2016 -
Like large corporations, the Postal Service by law has a board to govern and oversee its activities. At the moment it has zero confirmed members.
December 07, 2016 -
Margo Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, explains how new hiring authorities can help get national security people into government,
December 07, 2016