Federal Drive Interviews — Jan. 4, 2013

Certified financial planner talks about Thrift Savings Plan numbers for 2012. Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments sheds light on...

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Today’s guests:

Arthur Stein
certified financial planner
Arthur Stein Financial, LLC. Inc.

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The Thrift Savings Plan closed 2012 with a stronger showing in nearly all the funds than the previous year. Art Stein, a certified financial planner, tells us what it all means.

RELATED STORY: TSP closes out 2012 with strong showing

Todd Harrison
senior fellow for defense budget studies
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

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Late last month, amid all the uncertainty over sequestration, the Pentagon went on a spending spree. It awarded billions of dollars to top-contractors to keep major projects going and even start some new ones.

Jim Treat
chief of American Community Survey office
U.S. Census Bureau

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The Census Bureau has been a technology innovator when it comes to surveying and counting the public for a century. Now the agency that pioneered the punch card is taking a Web-first approach to its signature American Community Survey.

RELATED STORY: Census Bureau to Offer American Community Survey Internet Response (Census Bureau)

Sandy Hoe
partner
McKenna, Long and Aldridge

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Federal contracts and agencies have long been in a tug of war over insourcing and outsourcing. One agency, the Air Force, canceled a services contract because it decided to take the work in-house. Dellew Corporation sued. It didn’t win, but neither did the Air Force.

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Dr. Gerald Dillingham
director of physical infrastructure issues
Government Accountability Office

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The Senate confirmed Michael Huerta as the new administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in a unanimous vote on Tuesday. Unions and trade groups hailed the move. And it’s good that Huerta has garnered so much good will, because he’ll have a lot to do at FAA. The effort to modernize air traffic control has been a turbulent one. The push to get stakeholders on the same page and to get operators invested without instant gratification has also been challenging.

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