The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Pretty much every lawyer, lobbyist, rule-maker, think-tanker and wonk in Washington and beyond has been thinking about the same thing. The Supreme Court decision that ended the idea that courts should always defer to federal agencies for interpreting vague laws. As we're reported, the so-called Chevron decision has implications for all three branches of government. Joining the Federal Drive with how Congress might deal with it, a senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center, J. D. Rackey.

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A federal judge in Texas last month blocked a raft of new rules from the Labor Department concerning federal construction projects. One rule would have imposed so-called prevailing wage rates on every federal contract. Another would have imposed prevailing wages on construction material suppliers and truck drivers. Here with the implications of this ruling, from the Jackson Lewis law firm, attorney Andrew Bellwoar.

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June 30 was a landmark date in the move toward an all-digital government. That’s because it was the last day the National Archives and Records Administration accepted requests for analog record transfers from agencies. From now on, for the most part, NARA will only accept records in electronic format. For more on the race to shed the paper and what happens next, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday, spoke to NARA’s director of records management policy and outreach, Lisa Haralampus. 

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The first group of warrant officers to ever get a military occupational specialty in recruiting, they graduated last Thursday. Army brass call this a turning point for efforts to transform the service’s recruiting enterprise, and for actually meeting annual recruiting goals. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has more. 

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In today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:

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An academic course endorsed by the Defense Department and delivered by accelerator company, BM&T aims to help science and engineering students develop their ideas in two companies. It's called Hacking for Defense. One resulting startup called Pharos aerospace hopes to help both defense and commercial satellite operators deal with space debris. For more, I spoke with former University of Chicago students, Victor Tyne and Brian Klein. You were students at the time you took the BM&T sponsored and DoD sponsored course in entrepreneurship. Tell us about the journey and what the course was like, and what you were trying to accomplish in taking it and where you took it. Victor, we'll start with you as chief operating officer.

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Progress on 2025 appropriations bills stalled in the House this week ... when members failed to pass a legislative appropriations bill. Another spending bill is stalled by Republican amendments having to do with abortion in the District of Columbia. So ... the summer and the current fiscal year grind on with no apparent way to avoid a continuing resolution. We get the latest from W-T-O-P Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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Most of the purchases the government makes are small. For every aircraft carrier, agencies buy a million printers, desks, airplane tickets. Most of *these* fall under what's known as the micro purchase threshold. That threshold stands at 10 thousand dollars. My next guest has made the case that raising it to 20 thousand would save the government tens of millions of dollars, among other ventures. She's co-author of an analysis from the Baroni Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University .. and former administrator of the General Services Administration. Emily Murphy joins me now.

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The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office at DHS has one of the worst employee engagement and satisfaction scores in all of government.

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The Army has a plan to stop fighting its own network. Through the Unified Network Operations or U-N-O, initiative, the Army wants to create a software-defined network that's agile, and easy to set up and use.

For more, Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller spoke with the product manager for Tactical Cyber and NetOps, in the Army’s Command Control and Communications-Tactical unit, Lieutenant Colonel Keith Jordan.

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