Lieutenant General Gina Grosso, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services at the U.S. Air Force, discusses changes that need to be made to the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act in order to recruit and retain the next generation of military officers.

Chip Fulghum, deputy undersecretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses how his agency is dealing with an unintended side effect of the short-term budget bill passed in early February, and how government offices are confronting their ability to spend what was supposed to be their yearly budget in the next few months.

On this packed edition of the Federal Beat roundtable, reporters discuss the Department of Energy’s planned cyber office, federal websites not meeting HTTPS standards on deadline and “Operation Gladiator Shield.” Panelists include NextGov cybersecurity correspondent Joseph Marks, executive editor Jason Miller of Federal News Radio, and staff writer Mark Rockwell from FCW.

In the proposed FY19 budget the White House recently sent to Congress, an item in the Department of Defense's section stands out: $8.6 billion to spend next year on cybersecurity. We dive in and examine what this figure entails.