The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Today is the final day for members of federal labs to submit nominations for the 2025 FLC awards. The FLC stands for the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer which is a network of over 300 federal laboratories and research centers with the mission of accelerating federal technologies into the marketplace. To find out how they choose their best and brightest, Federal News Network's Eric White got the chance to speak with Jesse Midgett, who's a technology transfer professional for NASA, but also the FLC awards chair.

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People concerned with the federal workforce and government operations generally are wondering. If he returns to office, would former President Donald Trump bring back Schedule F. That was his plan to turn a chunk of the senior career civil service employees to essentially political appointees. Earlier I spoke with one long-time observer who's worried, Washington attorney George Chuzi.

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The mission of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command hadn't changed. It has grown more complicated with the advent of drone warfare and other threats. At this week's Association of the U.S. Army Conference, I got and update when I spoke with commander Lieutenant General Sean Gainey.

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If a sailor needed to change a filter on a Navy ship, it would require logging in and using six separate systems. The time it took just to order the part made the whole thing not just inefficient. The legacy systems the sailors used were difficult to secure. Well, that's changing, and for more on how the Navy is modernizing its logistics systems, Federal News Network's Jason Miller, spoke with the product director for logistics IT services, Jeff Bauer.

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The government is still litigating and getting money back from fraudsters in the pandemic-era Payroll Protection Plan. One reason for so many cases: whistleblowers. Not just one or two, but enough to make a noisy orchestra. We get more from an attorney and member of the the Anti-Fraud Coalition, Jason Marcus.

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We just heard from the director of the task force that's modernizing the Defense Department's organic industrial base. Modernized factories and depots need people with modernized skills. For how its handling that task, I caught up with the deputy chief of staff for personnel at the Army Materiel Command, Christina Freese.

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The Defense Department doesn't rely 100% on contractors for its needs. It also uses what it calls the organic industrial base. A network of government-owned facilities that manufacture things like howitzer shells and replacement parts for vehicles and aircraft. But the average organic factory is 80 years old. So the Army has a comprehensive plan to revitalize these facilities. At this week's Association of the U.S. Army conference, I got the details from the director of the Organic Base Modernization Task Force, Stephanie Hoaglin.

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The Biden Administration is giving agencies more capacity to handle the increase in permitting work that comes with a windfall of federally funded infrastructure projects. The Federal Permitting Council is investing $15 million in a new contracting tool to help agencies bring in temporary . It's also helped agencies upgrade their IT systems to streamline permitting for more on this latest investment. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman spoke with the permitting Council's Executive Director, Eric Beightel.

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