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THE FEDERAL NEWSCAST, (length about seven minutes), is a daily Monday through Friday, high-information compilation of nine 40-second news stories and news packages, generated by the non-partisan, non-political, private-sector team of reporters at Federal News Network. Federal News Radio Producer/Newscasters Eric White and Michele Sandiford assemble and read the stories on the THE FEDERAL DRIVE with TERRY GERTON, the weekday morning-drive program, heard from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. (ET) on the Federal News Network app (and website), on any smart speaker, and on WFED 1500 AM, a 50,000-watt 'Class A' powerhouse radio station in the nation's capital. The podcast...

GOP lawmakers target TSP's China and 'woke' investments

8 mins; May 25, 2023

Feds focus on TSP's future, as Uncle Sam steps toward financial cliff

8 mins; May 24, 2023

Data error exposes personnel info from several agencies to 22 HR employees

8 mins; May 23, 2023

Congressman wants a billion dollars more for frontline TSA employees

6 mins; May 22, 2023

One Senator thinks preserving a secret Parisian butchers’ language was a waste of American tax dollars

7 mins; May 19, 2023

GSA accelerates toward electrifying federal fleet

6 mins; May 18, 2023

Senate GOP joins House GOP in calling for feds to SHOW UP for work

7 mins; May 17, 2023

Federal correctional officers continue the fight for COVID-19 hazardous-duty pay

6 mins; May 16, 2023

Fort Benning is no more; it's Moore

6 mins; May 15, 2023

Horse problems force Arlington National Cemetery to suspend caisson use at funerals

6 mins; May 12, 2023

GOP resurrects the effort to make some feds at-will employees, thus easier to fire

8 mins; May 11, 2023

No COVID mandate for feds is Biden's newest COVID mandate

6 mins; May 10, 2023

Chairman McCaul threatens to hold Secretary of State Blinken in contempt of Congress

7 mins; May 09, 2023

Agencies need to tailor job postings to attract younger workers, government experts say

7 mins; May 08, 2023

More feds might soon be eligible for student-loan forgiveness

7 mins; May 05, 2023

DoJ adds over two dozen corporate-crime prosecutors to its National Security Division

7 mins; May 04, 2023

New electric mail trucks running late, by about eight months

7 mins; May 03, 2023

Targeting illegal immigration, new Senate bill addresses staffing shortages at airports, other ports of entry

9 mins; May 02, 2023

GAO gets new CIO next week

7 mins; May 01, 2023

Retired Brigadier General sentenced to 12-month prison term

7 mins; April 28, 2023

No-show job leads Army contracting officer to plead guilty to conspiracy and theft

7 mins; April 27, 2023

Senator urges Justice Dept to aggressively address epidemic of robberies against postal workers

7 mins; April 26, 2023

Alleged transgression costs major government contractor $22M

7 mins; April 25, 2023

Speaker McCarthy's debt-limit proposal evokes AFGE backlash

7 mins; April 24, 2023

USPS looks to further consolidate its delivery network

6 mins; April 21, 2023

Recruiting struggles continue across the military

8 mins; April 20, 2023

OPM washes its hands of COVID-19

7 mins; April 19, 2023

VA, NIH launch five-year study into Gulf War Illness

7 mins; April 18, 2023

New federal telework guidance elicits backlash from House Republicans

7 mins; April 17, 2023

False Claims Act brings Justice Department $3 million from software giant Adobe

7 mins; April 14, 2023

FAA conducting a pilot program that doesn't include human pilot

7 mins; April 13, 2023

The FCC launches it Space Bureau

7 mins; April 12, 2023

How the approaching debt-ceiling crisis could hit contractors first

19 mins; April 11, 2023

Admiral Steven Poulin: Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard

21 mins; April 11, 2023

A recipe for resilience in the event of a damaging cyberattack

19 mins; April 11, 2023

Fort Rucker sheds its Confederate moniker with a name change

7 mins; April 11, 2023

House Republicans demand data from DOE about employees' possible stock-trading conflicts of interest

6 mins; April 10, 2023

New analysis says some federal agency workforces have not fully recovered from previous administration

7 mins; April 07, 2023

New avenue for federal agencies to link up with college grads

6 mins; April 06, 2023

Senators want update from OPM on federal retirement improvements

7 mins; April 05, 2023

The IRS may want to revisit the idea of a suggestion box for employees

7 mins; April 04, 2023

Retiring intelligence officials are going to have to wait a few months before working for foreign governments

7 mins; April 03, 2023

Some TSA employees anticipate a 40% pay raise soon

8 mins; March 31, 2023

House Democrats want to create another TSP investment option

8 mins; March 30, 2023

After years of double billing DoD for genetic tests, LabCorp pays $2.1 million fine

8 mins; March 29, 2023

Navy's former CIO drops anchor at Google Public Sector

7 mins; March 28, 2023

Bill reintroduced to establish IG office for agency that manages TSP

7 mins; March 27, 2023

New House subcommittee chairman pledges to conduct rigorous oversight of CISA

8 mins; March 24, 2023

Lawmakers takes aim at changing how agencies buy software

7 mins; March 23, 2023

Policy change for certain diseases, boosts workers' comp acceptance rates for federal firefighters

8 mins; March 22, 2023

Virginia Army base gets an official name change this week

7 mins; March 21, 2023

OPM adjusts extension date to waive certain policies for essential federal workers

7 mins; March 20, 2023

IRS watchdog wants more money budgeted for service, less for enforcement

7 mins; March 17, 2023

Sen. Grassley puts hold on Biden's pick to oversee VA benefits

6 mins; March 16, 2023

IG tells Veterans Health Administration to strengthen background checks to avoid hiring persons barred from employment

6 mins; March 15, 2023

NTEU President Tony Reardon retiring

7 mins; March 14, 2023

DoD reports surge in sexual harassment at Naval and Air Force Academies

7 mins; March 13, 2023

CISA looking at a budget bump in the millions

8 mins; March 10, 2023

DC Health Link data breach was a big one

7 mins; March 09, 2023

GAO promises to issue report on yearlong hiccups plaguing TSP's almost-fixed online system

7 mins; March 08, 2023

Census Bureau, it turns out, didn't spend as much as once thought

7 mins; March 07, 2023

Nation's drinking-water systems need better cyber hygiene, EPA says

6 mins; March 06, 2023

Reports of federal race, sex and age discrimination are on the decline

7 mins; March 03, 2023

USPS billions of dollars in the hole

5 mins; March 02, 2023

DoD official talks mental health at Georgetown

6 mins; March 01, 2023

No dance step or sidestep can help avoid the TikTok ban

7 mins; February 28, 2023

The CIO shuffle continues at two agencies

7 mins; February 27, 2023

Sen. Markey calls for 'glitchy asylum app' to be shut down at the border

7 mins; February 24, 2023

House bill gaining steam to restore full Social Security benefits to certain feds

8 mins; February 23, 2023

Federal contracting industry provides support for Ukraine

8 mins; February 22, 2023

Defense Department officials took risks when authorizing commercial cloud services, DoD IG says

7 mins; February 21, 2023

State Dept. gets serious about cybersecurity

7 mins; February 17, 2023

Postal Service moves to crack down on 'a surge in counterfeit postage'

8 mins; February 16, 2023

NIH $50 billion IT-services contract being buried under protests

7 mins; February 15, 2023

Top Virginia lawmakers join forces to make final non-partisan pitch for new FBI HQ in their state

8 mins; February 14, 2023

TSA’s use of facial recognition comes under congressional scrutiny

7 mins; February 13, 2023

Growing disagreement between OMB and GAO is no act

7 mins; February 10, 2023

GAO preparing first-of-its-kind estimate of total fraud across all federal programs

7 mins; February 09, 2023

Agencies slow to act on some critical cybersecurity recommendations

8 mins; February 08, 2023

Momentum continues toward modernizing Congress

7 mins; February 07, 2023

Child care for DoD employees is falling short, GAO says

7 mins; February 06, 2023

MSPB says federal hiring officials should focus more on skills rather than education

6 mins; February 03, 2023

Navy wants local help figuring out what to do with a now closed facility

6 mins; February 01, 2023

A new way to measure the government's supply chain security readiness

7 mins; February 01, 2023

PRAC: Potentially over $5 billion in fraudulent pandemic loans from SBA

6 mins; January 31, 2023

State Department employees suffering from mysterious condition now have an avenue for financial help

6 mins; January 30, 2023

Looking for a job? Now could be a good time to start your intelligence career

7 mins; January 27, 2023

Concerned with potential damage to national security, two Senators request review of consulting firms' dual US-China relationships

7 mins; January 26, 2023

DoD wants to declassify more intelligence to enhance private-sector cybersecurity

7 mins; January 25, 2023

OPM draws wrath of House Oversight and Accountability Committee

6 mins; January 24, 2023

GAO sounds the alarm on federal cybersecurity efforts

6 mins; January 23, 2023

Treasury Department temporarily suspends investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

6 mins; January 20, 2023

GAO audits another big federal program with big fraud potential

7 mins; January 19, 2023

Court fight continues over government-shutdown double back pay

6 mins; January 18, 2023

IG slams NASA's software asset management, calling it 'basic'

7 mins; January 17, 2023

Soldier sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for $3 million PPP loan fraud

7 mins; January 13, 2023

Grassley calls for 10 agencies to account for payment arrangements of temporarily employed non-feds

8 mins; January 12, 2023

Another agency discovers the benefits of other transaction authority

18 mins; January 11, 2023

GOP House members named chairmen of Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees

7 mins; January 11, 2023

GOP chairmen selected on House Ways and Means and Homeland Security Committees

7 mins; January 10, 2023

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