Tom Temin

  • The Secret Service has taken significant, wide-ranging and important actions to transform the way it does business, according to recent study.

    January 02, 2017
  • The technology industry wants to transform the federal IT market that brings about new ways to fund, develop, procure, deliver, manage and sustain innovative technology solutions.

    December 30, 2016
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, Ellen Stofan says she is leaving her post at NASA after five years for "new adventures."

    December 30, 2016
  • The first order of business for the 115th Congress will be conducting confirmation hearings for some of Trump’s nominees and addressing the repeal of Obamacare.

    December 29, 2016
  • All in all, the Trump-to-Energy questionnaire presents a daunting and intimidating rasher of information to gather.

    December 29, 2016
  • Suppose, after inauguration, President Donald Trump did impose a federal hiring freeze, easier firing and no more union work during regular hours. What might that effect be after 100 days? For one perspective, Federal News Radio's Eric White spoke with Bob Tobias, professor in the Key Executive Leadership Program at American University, on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 29, 2016
  • Government would grind to a halt faster without contractors than without a permanent budget bill. Yet like their federal employee counterparts, contractors spend a lot of time trying to interpret the tea leaves as the Trump administration prepares to take over. Especially information technology companies. With what contractors are expecting and hoping, Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for the public sector at the Information Technology Industry Council, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 29, 2016
  • Through executive orders, the White House enacted more than a half dozen significant changes on matters ranging from nondiscrimination against LGBT employees to minimum wage rules affecting contractors. All of them are likely targets for repeal by the Trump administration. Ken Rosenberg, a partner at the law firm Fox Rothschild talks with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what’s ahead.

    December 29, 2016
  • 2016 has been an eventful year in the defense end of things for military members, civilians and contractors. Federal News Radio's Deputy Editor Jared Serbu joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with a review of some of the most-read DoD related stories.

    December 29, 2016
  • In today's Top Federal Headlines, a new report shows that the White House's first-ever online petition system did little to sway it's stance on issues.

    December 29, 2016
  • How open or closed will the Trump administration be? How the next president treats the performance dashboards will be instructive.

    December 28, 2016
  • President-elect Donald Trump has laid out numerous goals for the first few months of his administration. Mallory Barg Bulman, research director at the Partnership for Public Service, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what the incoming administration needs to do to strengthen the Office of Management and Budget as the focal point of missions that cut across agencies.

    December 28, 2016
  • The 114th Congress left a lot of unfinished business. Besides straightening out budget priorities with the new Trump administration, the 115th will have a lot of policy changes to deal with. Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings provides a look ahead on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    December 28, 2016
  • President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants a fresh plan for securing the nation's networks and other critical infrastructure. He'll face a challenge also faced by the Obama administration — the need for people trained in cybersecurity. The University of Maryland Baltimore County has been turning out such people. Federal Drive with Tom Temin speaks with UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and Professor Anupam Joshi, chairman of the computer science department there.

    December 28, 2016