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Benefits

A potential shutdown couldn't come at a worst time for Medicaid

With a potential shutdown on the horizon, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services already has its hands full trying to decipher who no longer qualifies for Medicaid coverage now that we're on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic. The process has already been hampered with a few issues, and a shutdown could make it worse. To find out how, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with Kelly Whitener, who is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families.

Artificial Intelligence

How the Defense industry is playing catch-up in artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Do tech companies' AI investments actually overlap with national priorities?

Agency Oversight

Has the SBA gotten better at preventing fraudulent loans?

Congress

A modern Congress will need new technology, ways of thinking

Workforce

Protecting US research from foreign adversaries

Federal Newscast

Federal executives, workers paint bleak picture of federal workforce

Gary Shiffman, founder of Giant Oak Inc. and professor at Georgetown University

Artificial Intelligence

Machine learning could reduce improper CARES Act payments

Workers in protective overalls walk past the Hankou railway station on the eve of its resuming outbound traffic in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Just after midnight Wednesday, the city's 11 million residents will be permitted to leave without special authorization as long as a mandatory smartphone application shows they are healthy and have not been in recent contact with anyone confirmed to have the virus. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Agency Oversight

Did the Intelligence Community see this pandemic coming?

Dewey Murdick

Technology

Using data in the fight against coronavirus

A Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue ambulance carries the body of a Kittitas County Sheriff's deputy away from Kittitas Valley Healthcare Hospital, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Ellensburg, Wash. A Kittitas County Sheriff's deputy was killed and a police officer was injured after an exchange of gunfire during an attempted traffic stop. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

What's Working in Washington

Innovative solutions to healthcare issues

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, construction crews install new border wall sections seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says the Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pensions accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall. Durbin told The Associated Press, “it’s coming out of military pay and pensions, $1 billion, that’s the plan.”(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Federal Newscast

DoD authorizes up to $1 billion for wall at U.S. southern border

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Fostering a greater ownership role for blacks in D.C.’s restaurant scene

Federal Tech Talk

Blockchain: Public-private partnerships & innovation

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announces results for the 2010 U.S. Census at the National Press Club, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Management

Fine tuning the federal government, one statistic at a time

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Federal Drive

Robert Groves: Push for a new federal statistical agency

Robert-Groves

Federal Drive

Robert Groves: Is it too late to save 2020 census?

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Workforce

How Twitter became an outlet of resistance, information for federal employees

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Federal Drive

Chris Taylor: Class reveals mysteries behind DoD acquisitions

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Mike Causey

Defense spending: Your taxes, your security, your job

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Budget

The new Congress

Federal Drive

Federal Drive Interviews -- Jan. 28, 2013

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Agencies, colleges share top recruiting tips in tight budget times