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The Postal Service has several big indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contracts worth billions, but it doesn't always follow the rules. Lucine Willis, deputy director for supply management and facilities in USPS' Office of Inspector General, fills in the all details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
In Congress, a slimmed-down legislative schedule is par for the course during an election year. But this year’s version is especially slim. The calendar calls for lawmakers to be out of session for a full eight weeks this summer then off again for six weeks just before Election Day. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks about the rest of the year’s calendar and what’s likely to get done with David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call.
A bill that prevents federal applicants who commit some sort of misconduct before or during the background check process from getting a security clearance is back on the table in the Senate.
Customs and Border Protection is streamlining its services to businesses by centralizing its import operations in 10 Centers of Excellence and Expertise.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has had some success with a new model of paying health care providers. Rather than paying them for how many services they render, it's paying them according to health care outcomes and how well they coordinate among one another over individual patients. Dr. Paul Cordts, deputy director for health care operations at the Defense Health Agency, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how DHA could benefit from the same model.
Matthew Fay, a foreign and defense policy analyst at the Niskanen Center, a libertarian think tank. tells Pentagon Solutions how proposed reforms to the Defense acquisition process are missing the target.
On the heels of the Senate passing the FOIA Improvement Act, House lawmakers want a new study on how agencies are meeting the current law.
More agencies need to become alert to when there's a shift in the market, technology, or best practice that requires a shift in approach.
The VA Commission on Care recently proposed privitizing parts of the Veterans Health Administration. Good idea or bad, when it's fully aired it's sure to spark a new national argument. Charles Tiefer, law professor and former House of Representatives counsel, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The weather might be damp and chilly, but federal employees can warm up to what's happening next week. Max Stier, president of the Partnership for Public Service, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss Public Service Recognition Week and the upcoming announcement of the finalists in the Service to America Medals competition.
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) are taking aim at unnecessary government reports again.
Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and Dr. Caroline Mahoney of the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center discuss new technology on Pentagon Solutions.
Stung by breaches and facing a rasher of policy mandates, federal agencies are using network upgrades as opportunities to improve cybersecurity. Lee Kelly, IT specialist and special assistant to the Environmental Protection Agency's senior information security officer, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the internet of things and big data are affecting EPA's network security.
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) asked OMB Director Shaun Donovan when his agency will finalize Circular A-130.