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Tom Temin
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Earlier this summer, a team of FBI and Health and Human Services investigators completed a long investigation that snared 301 people trying to bilk Medicare out of $900 million. Caryl Bryzmialkiewicz, the chief data officer and assistant inspector general at HHS, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how they used data to find the culprits.
August 24, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, Maryland's two Senators write the Office of Personnel Management to express the concern they're hearing from federal employees about the dramatic premium increases for the program.
August 24, 2016 -
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Immature technologies can sink an otherwise carefully planned program. That's why the Government Accountability Office is preparing a guide to help program and acquisition people evaluate the maturity of technology before they get stuck with it. Dr. Tim Persons, chief scientist at GAO, talked about the new guide on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 23, 2016 -
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Since 2014, when Veterans Affairs Department reform legislation became law, the VA has been expanding its network of outside health care providers. The Choice Program recently underwent a major review. Dr. Baligh Yehia, assistant deputy undersecretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration, talked about the changes and what's still ahead on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 23, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Government Accountability Office says Latvian Connections can't file any bid protests with them for one year for not fulfilling requirements.
August 23, 2016 -
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As National Park Service director, Jonathan Jarvis is responsible for overseeing 400 NPS locations covering more than 80 million acres. Jarvis is using this year's 100th anniversary to not only promote the national parks but also to raise funds to keep them spiffy. Jarvis tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about NPS' next generation connectivity.
August 22, 2016 -
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For nearly 10 years, the Defense Information Systems Agency has been working to provide secure cloud computing to DoD agencies. No longer the exclusive cloud provider itself, DISA now helps agencies use commercial providers in a secure way. John Hale, the cloud portfolio manager at DISA. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the effort centers on applications, if they're ready for cloud hosting and the best way to go about it.
August 22, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, a judge orders "No Easy Day" author Matthew Bissonnette to pay the government all past and future proceeds from the book for not letting the Pentagon review it first.
August 22, 2016 -
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Hurricane hunting by aircraft has been both the job and the passion of James McFadden for most of his 50-year federal career. He's chief of programs and projects at the Aircraft Operations Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He's also a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals program. He talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the honor.
August 19, 2016 -
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The software world is being flooded with open source product. In fact, the federal government has an open-source-first policy. But maybe it's time to stop and think about sources of open source. Where does all that code originate? The software supply chain. That's something Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps advocate at Sonatype, looks at carefully. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 19, 2016 -
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For years, the mentor-protégé program at the Small Business Administration paired large, established businesses with small, disadvantaged companies to improve the little guys' chances of winning federal contracts. Now the SBA has finalized a major revision to the mentor-protégé rules. Ken Dodds, director of planning and liaison in the government contracting office at SBA, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what the changes mean.
August 19, 2016 -
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In today's Top Federal Headlines, the American Federation of Government Employees hopes the Justice Department's decision will help the Bureau of Prisons get more resources.
August 19, 2016 -
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What the Army needs to worry about is a bathtub-shaped dip in productivity 'til people get used to what lies ahead.
August 19, 2016 -
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NPS is working to build accessibility into the culture despite the unique challenges posed by the nature of the agency’s mission.
August 19, 2016
