When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analy...
Compromise defense bill to give 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted troops
The House and Senate Armed Services committees rolled out a compromise defense policy bill late Saturday night that could give a historic pay raise to junior enlisted service members. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis has more.
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DOGE-supporting lawmakers call on USPS to privatize some operations, scrap electric fleet
Members of Congress are pushing back against the next phase of the Postal Service's 10 year reform plan. USPS ended 2024 with its worst net loss in recent years. This as the agency sets looser targets for on time mail now, USPS plans to save billions by cutting the number of trips their trucks run between mail processing facilities and post offices. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the latest.
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This procurement protest has brought all the wigs into the courtroom
A seemingly ordinary award protest has blown up. For only the fifth time in the last 25 years, all of the judges of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear the case. That's known as an en banque hearing. To explain how a subcontracting dispute got to this level, Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish.
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Military recruitment social media tactics aren't working very well
The Armed Services have turned to social media in recent years to promote recruitment. Yet they're still missing sign-up goals by the thousands. The Government Accountability Office finds, the target Generation Z has a declining attitude about the military. More now from the GAO's director of defense capabilities and management, Alissa Czyz.
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What's it like to be career and the number two medical officer at VA.
Federal senior executives are often well known in their agencies, but toil in obscurity as far as the public's concerned. My next guest is a physician, senior executive and the deputy under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration. Now he's among this year's Senior Executives Association's people of the year. As part of our ongoing series of these S E A'ers.
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When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many critical issues facing the Executive branch. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.
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