On today's episode of The Federal Drive with Tom Temin: Military recruitment social media tactics aren't working very well What's it like to be career and the number two medical officer at VA This procurement protest has brought all the wigs into the courtroom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The House and Senate Armed Services committees rolled out a compromise defense policy bill late Saturday night that could give a historic pay raise to junior enlisted service members. Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Members of Congress are pushing back against the next phase of the Postal Service's 10 year reform plan. USPS ended 2024 with its worst net loss in recent years. This as the agency sets looser targets for on time mail now, USPS plans to save billions by cutting the number of trips their trucks run between mail processing facilities and post offices. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has the latest.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Armed Services have turned to social media in recent years to promote recruitment. Yet they're still missing sign-up goals by the thousands. The Government Accountability Office finds, the target Generation Z has a declining attitude about the military. More now from the GAO's director of defense capabilities and management, Alissa Czyz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal senior executives are often well known in their agencies, but toil in obscurity as far as the public's concerned. My next guest is a physician, senior executive and the deputy under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration. Now he's among this year's Senior Executives Association's people of the year. As part of our ongoing series of these S E A'ers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's beginning to look a lot like transition. To the next Trump administration, that is. In fact, the so-called landing teams should be dropping in on agencies starting this week. All this against a backdrop of budget uncertainty. We check in with veteran watcher and president and C-E-O of the Professional Services Council David Berteau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin The FAA adds a new college to its air traffic controller roster Finding the humor, the outright hilarity, in public records Transition to Trump starts in earnest with agency landing teams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's no secret that the FAA has an ongoing need for more air traffic controllers. Air traffic control takes more training and skill than making whole milk cappuccinos, though. Now the FAA has expanded its metwork of collegiate training sites with the addition of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida. Joining me with details, the FAA's deputy vice president of safety and technical training, Christopher Wilbanks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My next guest makes his living putting on comedy shows about public records he's obtained through freedom of information act requests FOIA. Given the state of politics and the uncertainty over what the Trump administration will bring, my producers thought, why not? The creator of Foia Comedy, Curtis Raye, joins me now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Although the Biden administration is winding down, current senior officials see a few key opportunities to expand federal hiring initiatives in the coming years. Strategies such as skills-based hiring and shared certificates have long had strong bipartisan support and have already seen some promising results. Federal News Network's Drew Friedman joins me with more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices