Federal Drive with Tom Temin

There is an outright conflict between cybersecurity and supply chain risk management (SCRM), and simply adding those together can lead to an increase in cyberattacks, a new report finds. Researchers found that cybersecurity and supply chain risk management are in many instances at odds with each other. There are trade-offs, and understanding what those trade-offs look like will allow the Defense Department to better secure its defense industrial products supply, according to the authors of the new RAND Corp. report. Against the backdrop of high-profile cyber attacks on the supply chains, the Air Force Research Laboratory asked the federally-funded think tank to help them understand how cyber risks compare to other risks in the defense-industrial supply chains and provide recommendations on how to have a comprehensive approach when addressing their needs together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How would you like the job of keeping tabs on labor relations in an organization with two million employees? Or of employee accountability? Federal Drive Tom Temin's guest isn't personally responsible for these things, but he's the main adviser at the Office of Personnel Management on them. Tim Curry is also a recent recipient of a Presidential Rank Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: A 2024 look ahead at the IRS, its people and its modernization. This Presidential Rank Awardee might have one of the toughest HR jobs anywhere. National security agencies with unique approaches to zero-trust cybersecurity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Just because the Christmas season is in the rear-view mirror, doesn't mean you can't still give. In fact, the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) continues until January 15. For a summary of the most recent campaign, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the chair of the CFC for the National Capital Region, Vince Micone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether Congress passes a 2024 budget or not, federal agencies will continue to engage in contracting. That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled. For a roundup of some of the most significant protests of 2023, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is one of the 10 interviews being broadcast this month, by Federal Drive Host Tom Temin, with recent recipients of the Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Lori Glaze is a career NASA researcher, who has focused on the nearby planets and their geologic behavior. She's currently Director of the Planetary Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: Guess what? It's not too late to help out the Combined Federal Campaign. New year, new opportunities for contracting protests. What is really like on the planet Venus? Ask this NASA scientist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: A tiny agency has big gains in employee satisfaction scores. Meet one of the government's most experienced rule-making and evaluation experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No agency proposes a big rule until it gets the okay from an office little known to the public. Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest is the permanent deputy administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Dominic Mancini, who also is a recent recipient of a 2024 Presidential Rank Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has a short but somewhat turbulent history. One chairman was forced out for mismanagement. Another resigned early because the White House proposed getting rid of the board altogether. More recently, things have stabilized. In the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey scores, engagement at the Chemical Safety Board rose by 29%. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin got an update from the new chairman, Steve Owens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After building quite a bit of momentum last year, the largest union for federal employees is celebrating its first big win in Europe. The American Federation of Government Employees has just welcomed almost 400 civilian employees working at the Kaiserslautern Military Community Center Exchange in Germany, a move that labor organizers hope will spur union growth among federal workers stationed in Europe. The 389 non-appropriated fund (NAF) employees all work for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), at 11 separate facilities as retail, food and gas station workers. While AFGE covers AAFES employees working in the United States under a single contract, it didn’t represent AAFES employees stationed abroad. Moving forward, the employees will automatically be covered under an existing contract between AAFES and AFGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin: From a recent practitioner: More of what's ahead for federal acquisition in 2024. Will 2024 bring some resolutions for the cyber workforce problem? The upcoming congressional session is shaping up like the one just ended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Year. The government-shutdown deadline is just a couple of weeks away. Some things never change. For a deeper look at what a second session of a troubled Congress is likely to do, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acquisition is an eternal function to keep the government running. It is also constantly changing. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest knows the ins and outs, having just left the General Services Administration as commissioner of its Federal Acquisition Service. For what buyers and sellers can expect in the year ahead, we hear from Sonny Hashmi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices