A planning panel has recommended replacing the Forrestal Building and redeveloping the site with a mix of housing, commercial and public uses. The proposal is also raising broader questions about how government measures the long-term value of federal property. Joining me to discuss what's behind the plan and what it could mean for federal real estate are David Winstead of the Public Buildings Reform Board and Diane Sullivan of the National Capital Planning Commission.

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Recent debate over military-related prediction markets has focused attention on who can participate and what they may know before the market does. Some analysts say that combination creates risks that traditional forecasting tools don't present. My guests are Virginia Burger and Janice Luong of the Project on Government Oversight.

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New fraud tactics are exposing weaknesses in the way government verifies identity. As artificial intelligence makes fake identities more convincing and easier to create, agencies are being forced to rethink systems that were designed for a different kind of threat. Jordan Burris, vice president and head of public sector strategy at Socure, says it's time to start treating identity as critical infrastructure.

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• Artificial intelligence is making it easier to create fake identities and harder for agencies to tell who's real
• One federal office complex is becoming a test case for a larger question: how should government measure the value of the property it owns?
• When military information and financial incentives meet, a forecasting tool can become something else entirely

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The NIH IT Acquisition and Assessment Center, or NITAAC, found there was better than 90% duplication of what it offered and what was already available through IT contract vehicles managed by GSA and NASA.

For the first time since NITAAC cancelled CIO-SP4 in February, Ricky Clark, the director of NITAAC, gives Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller exclusive details about what went into the ultimate decision to end this five-year saga.

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The federal government is under pressure to move capabilities into the field faster. One result is a growing willingness to bring industry, researchers and technology providers into the acquisition process earlier. In this segment of Contractors to Watch, sponsored by JP Morgan, Jeff Stevens, president of ENSCO, explains how companies are finding success with this approach.

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Moving technology into government faster doesn't eliminate the need for accountability. A recent Court of Federal Claims decision kept alive a protest over a Navy software procurement and drew an important distinction between evaluating a proposal and determining whether a bidder may have misrepresented its qualifications. Federal contracting attorney Zach Prince joins me with lessons contractors should take from the case.

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For decades, technology transfer usually meant moving inventions out of government laboratories and into the marketplace. Now some small technology companies are heading in the opposite direction, bringing developed technologies to federal labs for testing and validation. That's one of the shifts David Lee and Paige George of the Federal Labs Consortium are watching, and one they hope to build on. They join me now to discuss that change and their upcoming industry forum.

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• In national security technology, some of the most important ideas are now arriving at federal labs from outside government
• Government agencies are bringing technology companies into the problem-solving process a lot earlier
• Winning a government contract may not end scrutiny of what a bidder claimed in its proposal

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Agencies’ spending on paid administrative leave surged sixfold last year. Those costs were largely due to the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. But data limitations make it impossible to tell exactly how much was spent, or how much was potentially saved, by the DRP.

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