Federal agencies have gotten better at hiring specialized talent in recent years. Special hiring authorities have helped, those and intern programs. To really get the most benefit from hires, though, requires making sure they're placed in the right jobs. My next says agencies don't always do such a great job on that count. Long-time federal managem…

Last year, the Air Force hit its lowest point for recruiting since 1999. Recruitment now though, seems to be taking a turn for the better. The Air Force said it met its recruiting goals for 2024 for the active duty Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin NASA must bring its mission and funding into alignment Hiring talent is only one step in actually benefitting from it Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesΑπό τον Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

By some estimates, nearly a half million cybersecurity jobs across the nation are going unfilled. A new bill in the House aims to help plug the gap by giving students scholarships to community colleges in exchange for two years of public service. That legislation is just one of several cyber workforce bills Congress is racing to pass before the end…

It's the best placed to work in the federal government. It has its sights deep into the universe. Yet NASA has some big down-to-earth challenges. A National Academies team looked closely at NASA and found too much focus on the short term and mismatch of work and funding, among other things. The chairman of the Committee on NASA Mission Critical Wor…

The military's transition to a new multi billion dollar contract to move service members' personal belongings from place to place was delayed for years by bid protests and information technology problems. Well now it looks like it's finally full steam ahead. The first long distance moves under the new global household goods contract are now underwa…

The Defense Department is only as strong as the defense industrial base (DIB), the population of companies that make what's needed to carry out military and national security tasks. For a look into what sort of investments the defense department is making in the DIB, we turn to the senior vice president for public affairs at Govini, Jeb Nadaner. Le…

It never caught on with the Pepsi generation, maybe it will this time; federal co-working spaces. In a test program the General Services Administration has had underway for more than a year, people are using it, but the GSA in the opinion of the Government Accountability Office needs more data to fully assess the program. More now from the GAO's ac…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin There's more in the defense industrial base than the Defense Department may be aware of A closer look at the shrinking Defense industrial base GSA makes a try at co-working spaces for a new generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Satisfaction of Thrift Savings Plan account holders has rebounded a bit. It's now at 84% according to the latest survey by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, more respondents are saying they're extremely satisfied, and not just satisfied with the TSP's offerings. Here with details, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman. Learn more about…

U.S. military requirements keep expanding, but the Defense industrial base keeps declining. In the words of my next guest, it's shrinking, concentrated, and less diverse than ever. Bloomberg Government analysis Paul Murphy joins me with more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Federal authorities raided the office of one of the government's biggest software vendors. Agents from the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service arrived at the Reston, Virginia headquarters of Carahsoft technology yesterday, Federal News Network's Jason Miller has the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/…

The Veterans Affairs Department is conducting what it calls the largest outreach campaign in its history, happening under the PACT Act which expands benefits to veterans exposed to toxic substances from sources like burn pits. VA has already enrolled close to 750,000 of these veterans. For details of the next outreach, Federal News Network's Jory H…

The U.S. once had a missile gap. Now it has a semiconductor gap. An insufficient supply of domestically-made advanced integrated circuits. Congress passed the Chips and Science Act back in 2022. My next guest says DoD should do more to take advantage of it. She's an electrical engineer professor at the University of Arizona and part of a recent Nat…

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are partners at the same dance. And, for a couple of years now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has run a project called the AI Cyber Challenge. No small effort, it awarded nearly 30 million dollars in prizes to teams able to design AI systems to protect critical code. Here with more, program …

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin DARPA wraps up another artificial intelligence challenge Another view of the Defense Department microelectronics shortfall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesΑπό τον Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

The Army is in the midst of a big push to modernize its software development processes, and we're not just talking about code writing. Its agreements with industry might be about to change in big ways as well. As Federal News Network's Jared Serbu reports the goal is to make contracting for software as agile as the development process itself. Learn…

Federal health and retirement benefits have a major recruitment and retention influence on federal employees, and those benefits are especially important to millennial and Generation Z federal employees. That's according to the results of a recent survey from the Office of Personnel Management. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman joins me with the…

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin NASA develops an in-house team for the tricky information technology projects Tougher cyber guidelines coming for something you do every day Should contractors be relieved that Congress averted a shutdown? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

Contractors and agencies alike have long had standards for identity management when people log on to systems. Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology proposes to tighten the requirements for identity proofing and related procedures. Analysis now from attorney Sean Griffin, a partner at Robinson and Cole. Learn more about your ad choi…

The Federal Digital Service spawned look-alikes in several agencies. Among them NASA, an agency that already had heavy technology chops. For a look inside NASA's Digital Service, we turn to its team leader, Shawn Chittle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesΑπό τον Federal News Network | Hubbard Radio

Now that the three month continuing resolution looks like what we're going to get, contractors wonder whether that's good news or bad news. Relative to a lapse in appropriations, it's probably good news, but delayed regular appropriations still have consequences. More now from federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Learn more about you…

That's the sound of the annual game of congressional chicken. The question on this, the occasion of this year's annual government shutdown threat is, will they or won't they get a budget deal on time? We get an update from WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

For several years now, the Justice Department has operated something called the Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative. It uses the long-standing False Claims Act to go after contractors and research grantees who don't have the cybersecurity controls in place they say they do. A recent case against two universities shows how it all works. My next guest repre…

You may have heard. It's national election season. The more partisan things get, why the more partisan they get. So the Office of Special Counsel is on high alert for reports of possible violations of the Hatch Act against office campaigning. This as the OSC itself embarks on an update of its own transparency procedures. We get an update from Speci…