The Pentagon is trying to clean up the records behind military ID cards used by hundreds of thousands of service members. About 215,000 active-duty and reserve troops have records that are missing proof of identity, but the Defense Department says there's no evidence of fraud. Federal News Network's Rachel Cohen has the story.

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Lieutenant General Mark Simerly is in his final weeks as the director of the Defense Logistics Agency. In the two-plus years as DLA’s leader, Simerly drove the agency to change how it delivers products and services to the Defense Department around the world. In an “exit” press briefing, Simerly tells executive editor Jason Miller and other reporters about how DLA is more agile today and how it has adapted to the changing logistics environment over the last few years.

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The TSP's F Fund has trailed the G Fund over the last several years. Before deciding what that means for your own investments, it helps to understand what's happening in the bond market. Here with that perspective is Arthur Stein, partner at Allworth Financial.

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Passing an audit remains one of the Defense Department's top financial priorities, but getting there may require more than better bookkeeping. Department leaders are looking at financial-system consolidation, common data standards and major process changes across the enterprise. For a look at what's driving that effort, we turn to Rich Brady, CEO of the Society of Defense Financial Management.

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A recent Federal Reserve Board audit found that insider-risk responsibilities existed across multiple offices, but no centralized program was managing those risks at the enterprise level. The findings offer lessons that extend well beyond the Federal Reserve. Here to discuss them are Chris Lyons and Joe Hackett from the Federal Reserve Board Office of Inspector General.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

• For years, the TSP's F Fund was supposed to offer a little more return in exchange for a little more risk. Lately, the results haven't looked that way.
• For years, the Pentagon has struggled to produce a clean audit. Now the push for auditability is starting to reshape how the department manages money and the systems behind it
• An organization can have security offices, monitoring programs and compliance requirements everywhere. That doesn't mean anyone is looking at the whole risk picture

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The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued another sources-sought notice for its massive migration of combatant commands’ common-use IT services to a single service provider. But the pace at which the agency is moving is raising a number of questions. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has more.

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Federal employees will see a major shift in the way misconduct cases are handled. Going forward, the Merit Systems Protection Board will evaluate disciplinary actions using case-by-case criteria, rather than 12 longstanding considerations called the “Douglas factors.” The change is meant to add flexibility, but some have raised concerns that it will lead to bias or subjectivity. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman gets more from Michael Fallings, a managing partner at Tully Rinckey law firm.

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Contractors are tracking several policy decisions that could affect how they compete for work and plan for the year ahead, from small-business eligibility rules to counter-drone authorities and the budget outlook. Jim Carroll, CEO of the Professional Services Council, joins me now to explain what's getting the industry's attention. ⠀

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CMS recently revisited a Medicare payment policy after determining that some arrangements no longer reflected the original intent of the rule. Healthcare attorney Alice Harris joins me now with a look at what the agency saw and what it decided to do about it.

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As concerns about repeated blast exposure receive increasing attention, the Defense Department has launched several monitoring initiatives. but, GAO says the department has not fully assessed the personnel and resources needed to support those efforts into the future. Alyssa Hundrup, director on the Health Care team at the Government Accountability Office, led that review and joins me now with the details.

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