The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

It's not a big group. Only 21 members. But it has national impact. And it recently marked 25 years in business. It's the Professional Responsibility Advisory Office of the Justice Department to advise the department's own attorneys. Joining me for an update, director Stacy Ludwig.

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Today on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin

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If Black Friday and Cyber Monday are about what you can get, then today is about what you can give. For Giving Tuesday, four groups that support needy members of the military have joined forces with one another and with industry. They're reaching out to the public to raise funds under a program called Mission Give. For how it all works, we turn to the president of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert Ruark.

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You won't see her name in the newspapers. She won't introduce sweeping policy. What she *will* do is ensure all the people who do the mission-related work of the Federal Deposit Insurance Company can do *their* work. Jennifer Schoen is the newly named director of the FDIC's division of administration, and she joins me now.

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Protests of contracts went down last fiscal year. And that's not the only development on the procurement front. The micro purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contracting ceiling, and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to go up in 2025 and to boot, the oversight and accountability of subcontracting by primes is going to get more scrutiny, just some of the story lines. Federal News Network's executive editor Jason Miller, has been covering in his latest reporters notebook.

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The National Institutes of Health procurement arm issued requests for proposals on a multiple award contract three and a half years ago. The program, known as CIOSP4, still hasn't made any awards. It's still bogged down in protests. The program it replaces had been extended several times. My next guest says it's time for NIH to start over. Federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joins me now.

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Heated debates over military pay and quality of life issues continue as Congress finalizes the 2025 defense policy bill. House Armed Services Committee members told this to their Senate counterparts. "It's disheartening to see most of the recommendations from the house LED panel not included in the Senate version of the bill." Federal News Network's Anastasia Obis has more and specifically, what do House lawmakers want that the Senate is leaving out of the NDAA?

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We've been interviewing some of the federal executives who recently became fellows in the National Academy of Public Administration. My next guest is one of them. And if it has to do with the disbursement of money, she's done if or overseen it. The deputy assistant secretary for budget, finance, grants and acquisitions at the Interior Department, Andrea Brandon joins me now.

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