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The Defense Department is trying to make benefits administration simpler for reservists. Currently, service members in reserve ranks have more than 30 duty statuses to wade through to figure out what benefits they are entitled to. Often changes in orders lead to gaps in benefits. DoD has a new plan to simplify all of that, and expand benefits.
Elizabeth Curda, acting director for health issues at GAO, says overcrowding of the more than 10,000 workers at the Food and Drug Administration's White Oak Campus in Maryland could cause security problems. Curda joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the concern and FDA business pla
David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, predicts that proposed changes by lawmakers will likely garner more support from the Trump administration than they did in the Obama administration. Hawkings walks Federal Drive with Tom Temin through the Capitol Hill near-term agenda.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary committee, says some agencies often overreach when it comes to rulemaking. Goodlatte is the principal sponsor of the Regulatory Accountability Act, which passed the House earlier this month. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the bill would do and why.
If you say no new hires and no new contracting out, you've got the bureaucracy boxed in.
The government's top ethics official says President Trump still hasn't provided sufficient documentation of his plan to divest his business holdings.
The Trump administration landing teams have already established beachheads at the General Services Administration, the source of much federal procurement and contracting policy. Changes there will have a big impact on both contracting officers and companies doing business with the government. One consultant who's been watching is Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He share's what he's anticipating on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The federal government's approach to cybersecurity personnel isn't serving the interests of better security very well. Hiring from the wrong places and granting certifications no one wants are among those not-so-smart practices. That's the contention of Paul Innella, founder of TDI, a cyber consultancy that's worked for many federal agencies. He offers his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Agriculture Department National Institute of Food and Agriculture launched $5 million grant program. It says it wants to strengthen the science behind the next generation of internet-connected agricultural implements and how that could improve food production. Steven J. Thomson, Ph.D., national program leader of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
The White House has issued a government-wide order immediately freezing regulations until the new administration can review them.
Sequestration and philosophical differences among politicians have lead to a big unresolved question over military capacity.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox urges Donald Trump to reconsider his plans to cut federal jobs.
Inaugurations can be nice, but also messy and very confusing, as Senior Correspondent Mike Causey will try to explain.
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.