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title: Avoiding a paycheck breakdown for 650K feds | Small biz goals | Keeping nukes safe
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# [Avoiding a paycheck breakdown for 650K feds | Small biz goals | Keeping nukes safe](https://fedgovtoday.com/podcast/2023/08/23/avoiding-a-paycheck-breakdown-for-650k-feds-small-biz-goals-keeping-nukes-safe)

 Written by [montecristomedia](https://fedgovtoday.com/podcast/author/montecristomedia) | Aug 24, 2023 4:00:00 AM

  

The [National Finance Center](https://www.nfc.usda.gov/) does payroll, human resources, and retirement services for 650,000 federal employees across 170 agencies. It’s up against the same modernization challenges other federal government organizations are facing. [Margie Graves](https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-graves-4515661a0), Senior Fellow at the [IBM Center for The Business of Government](https://www.businessofgovernment.org/), and former Deputy Chief Information Officer of the United States, led a team for the [National Academy of Public Administration](https://napawash.org/) that advised the NFC how to stay ahead of the curve. She tells me [what her team found](https://napawash.org/academy-studies/national-finance-center-modernization-assessment), and how NFC can keep moving in the right direction.

 

The Department of Health and Human Services [small business contracting goal for Fiscal 2023](https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/asfr/ogapa/osdbu/index.html) is 22%. The agency has goals for subcategories of small businesses for this fiscal year too. On [the newest edition of Fed Gov Today TV](https://fedgovtoday.com/2023/08/17/future-of-space-force-generative-ai-in-the-dod-small-biz-goals-for-hhs/), I ask [Shannon Jackson](https://bethesdaevents.afceachapters.org/HealthIT2022/speaker/408322/shannon-jackson), Executive Director of the [Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization at HHS](https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/asfr/ogapa/osdbu/index.html), about the progress he’s making toward those goals.

 

The war in Ukraine has dozens - or maybe hundreds - of second- and third-order effects in addition to the suffering and violence because of war fighting. One of those is the security of nuclear materials in the region. [Zachary Johnson](https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/zachary-johnson/), Foreign Affairs Specialist at the [National Nuclear Security Administration](https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/national-nuclear-security-administration), is a finalist for a [Service to America Medal](https://servicetoamericamedals.org/) in the [Safety, Security, and International Affairs Category](https://servicetoamericamedals.org/honorees/?_category=safety-security-international-affairs). He shares the management and relationship-building principles that keep nuclear materials safe in some of the worst conditions in the world.

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