Federal Drive with Tom Temin

The U.S. is back in the Paris Agreement and now President Joe Biden wants the federal government to set an example for environmental sustainability. Considering how much space agencies take up, one way to do that is by trimming the real estate portfolio. Federal News Network digital editor Amelia Brust looked into the state of federal green buildings, what lies ahead and how telework during the pandemic has reframed thinking around all of this, and joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the dynamic world of Homeland Security, planning for and maintaining the right workforce presents a major imperative. For some insight and how they do it, Federal Drive with Tom Temin welcomed the Executive Director of Strategic Workforce Planning and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security Kimya Lee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're getting a bit of cabin fever during the pandemic and just want to get out and go, a recently relaunched program of the Federal Highway Administration could help. The National Scenic Byways Program can tell you about some of the best drives to take near you. For more about the program, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to FHWA spokesman Doug Hecox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it will listen is anyone's guess. But a highly anticipated report to Congress on the future of the Office of Personnel Management is finally out. For how the National Academy of Public Administration went about this crucial work, we turn to NAPA president and CEO, Terry Gerton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The CIA last fall opened the doors to CIA Labs, the agency's first laboratory, and now one of 300 federal labs. For why the CIA needed a lab and what it does, deputy director John Lewis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The National Academy of Public Administration offered up its highly anticipated diagnosis of the Office of Personnel Management. The results aren't all that surprising. But they describe an urgent need to refocus and reprioritize OPM as the human capital leader in federal government. NAPA's report includes 23 recommendations. And it stems from a request Congress made in reaction to the previous administration's proposal to merge and reorganize OPM. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko joined the Federal Drive to break down the 114-page review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Army is considering a major hiring effort to address shortcomings in its law enforcement enterprise. The Criminal Investigation Command could hire several hundred new civilian officers as part of a reform plan the Army’s senior leaders are considering. The staffing-up could help address one of the key findings of the Fort Hood Independent Review commission: That the Army’s criminal investigation units are starved for resources. More from Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic will be over eventually. Now the Library of Congress is making sure it isn't forgotten. Several of its curators are putting together collections of photographs, other artwork, maps and many other documents showing the scope of the pandemic. Director of the Special Collections Directorate at the Library of Congress, Michelle Light, had the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine if the global positioning system was somehow hacked. From the Waze app in your pocket to the operation of Navy shops, you might say we'd be in deep trouble. Now some technical whizzes in the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate have come up with what they call a Positioning, Navigation and Timing Integrity Library to guard against someone trying to spoof the GPS. For more on what it's all about, technical manager Ernest Wong spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Marine Corps' bid to replace its heavy lift helicopter is running into heavy downdrafts. Dubbed the CH-53K, the chopper is 15 years into development. Yet it still has technical problems and costs spinning out of control like a loose rotor blade. For the latest details, the director of the contracting and national security acquisitions team at the Government Accountability Office, Jon Ludwigson, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Government agencies at all levels have been stressed by the pandemic, it's fair to say. A symptom of that stress has been decidedly mixed levels of customer service and customer experience. Joining the Federal Drive with a progress report, Forrester Research vice president Rick Parrish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not many people can claim association with an agency spanning nearly 50 years, but my next guest can. In the case of the Peace Corps, she's been working for, with and in it for almost all of the 60 years the Peace Corps is celebrating this year. She's got a great title to go with that experience. Expert in the Office of the Director. The Federal Drive welcomed Kate Raftery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) takes over as head of the Senate Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee. He inherits some new areas of responsibility, including acquisition and military housing. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione spoke about the subcommittee’s priorities this year with Kaine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s new chief innovation officer spent his entire career in technology, that is, before joining the government. But as a different kind of CIO, Sultahn Migjee will apply that technology experience in a much different way. Migjee tells executive editor Jason Miller about his plans for developing the role of FDIC’s new chief innovation officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Congress opened the spigots of spending in a bill President Biden signed last week, it used a nozzle to spray the money everywhere, including on the government itself. The Federal Drive got a quick summary and a look ahead from WTOP capitol hill correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices