The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Department of the Air Force is laying out a new plan to bring artificial intelligence, or what federal officials now call superintelligence, into 15 different mission areas across the Air Force and Space Force. The blueprint puts senior leaders in charge of identifying where AI can make a difference. It also tackles some of the less glamorous but critical challenges around data management, workforce training and accountability. Federal News Network's Rachel Cohen joins me to explain what the department is trying to accomplish and what it could mean for military operations.
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Changes are coming for users of the Department of Veteran Affairs website, VA.gov. The VA is modernizing how veterans navigate, log in and access VA.gov in a multi-phased approach. The first phase went live November 11. Here to talk more about this first phase is Federal News Network reporter Silvia Oakland.
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Federal employees are often called on to carry out difficult assignments on behalf of the public. For one former Justice Department lawyer, that meant representing the government against families seeking answers after the Parkland and Sutherland Springs shootings. Paul Stern says the experience changed his understanding of duty, accountability, and public service. He joins me now.
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For years, the government's Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey provided a common measure of workforce engagement and satisfaction across agencies. After OPM moved to a decentralized approach, the Partnership for Public Service launched its own government-wide Public Service Viewpoint Survey. Michelle Amante, Senior Vice President of Government Programs at the Partnership for Public Service, joins me now.
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By now, you've heard from us and many other news outlets about some of the numbers behind the DOGE cuts, and what agencies lost. However, what about the real world consequences of the layoffs and those who participated in the Deferred Resignation Program? A new report from Democracy Forward analyzes the government services that were greatly affected by this loss of personnel. To learn what they found, Federal Drive host Terry Gerton spoke to Skye L. Perryman, who is President at Democracy Forward, as well as Astrid Dorélien the Civil Service Fellows Program Director there.
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