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  • How artificial intelligence is energizing information technology

    How artificial intelligence is energizing information technology
    Feb 21 2025
    Technology is like a flywheel. Flywheels do a lot of work, but they slow down if the don't get an injection of new energy. Artificial intelligence looks like the energy coming into the flywheel of information technology. My next guest has looked into this. He's the chief technology officer at Booz Allen, Bill Vass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    13 min
  • Lawmakers press Hegseth about cost, morale, readiness impact of border operations

    Lawmakers press Hegseth about cost, morale, readiness impact of border operations
    Feb 21 2025
    President Trump's order directing the military to seal the border with Mexico gave the Pentagon a big part in immigration enforcement. The Defense Department has said the southern border operations will cost nearly a billion dollars over the next eight months. Some members of Congress say the department doesn't have a realistic estimate. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis brings us the latest in that cost estimate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    7 min
  • A Biden appointee sues to keep her job under Trump

    A Biden appointee sues to keep her job under Trump
    Feb 21 2025
    One highly visible appointee of former president Joe Biden has filed suit to keep her job. Bureau of Prisons Director Collette Peters filed her appeal of what she calls a wrongful dismissal to the Merit Systems Protection Board. Peter has retained federal employment attorney Mary Kuntz, who joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    11 min
  • Lead CMMC architect returns to Pentagon as DoD CISO

    Lead CMMC architect returns to Pentagon as DoD CISO
    Feb 21 2025
    The original architect of the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model certification program, CMMC was marched out of the Pentagon early in the Biden administration. Well, now she's back. Katie Arrington has joined the Defense Department and the Trump administration again, she'll oversee DoD cybersecurity, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me with the details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    7 min
  • The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- Friday, February 21, 2025

    The Federal Drive with Tom Temin -- Friday, February 21, 2025
    Feb 21 2025
    Today on the Federal Newscast A Biden appointee sues to keep her job under Trump How artificial intelligence is energizing information technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    46 min
  • Despite exemptions, VA employees still feeling impact from policies shaking up federal workforce

    Despite exemptions, VA employees still feeling impact from policies shaking up federal workforce
    Feb 20 2025
    The Veterans Affairs Department has exempted many of its front line employees from the Trump administration's federal workforce policies that includes the hiring freeze, the deferred resignations and the firing of probationary hires. But not everybody, multiple VA employees, including some working at the Veterans Crisis Line, say they're not exempt. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joins us with the latest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 min
  • Why Schedule F could work this time around

    Why Schedule F could work this time around
    Feb 20 2025
    We just heard the case against that new class of civil service called career-policy. Formerly called Schedule F, it's the Trump administration's way to make the civil service more accountable. For a cautious view of why it might work this time around, we turn to a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Sean Higgins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    9 min
  • Governmentwide firings ‘devastating’ to probationary federal employees

    Governmentwide firings ‘devastating’ to probationary federal employees
    Feb 20 2025
    At the National Science Foundation, 168 federal employees lost their jobs Tuesday. They got a couple of hours notice to say goodbye to their colleagues and pack up their belongings. This story is echoing widely across the government and impacting thousands of federal employees, and it comes after the Trump administration encouraged agencies to fire people in their probationary periods, when they've got fewer job protections. Here with an update, Federal News Network's Drew Friedman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 min