The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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Debt default would seem, in some ways, like a government shutdown. But it's not. The government is fully appropriated for the rest of fiscal 2023. It is the money to roll over Treasury bills coming due that the government would not have. None of this is to say things would be hunky dory for contractors. For an assessment, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke to David Berteau, the President and CEO of the Professional Services Council.

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Army camps and bases often feature architecture worth preserving. One example is Camp Dodge, an Army National Guard training facility in Iowa. Its construction and facilities management staff won a Pentagon award earlier this year for restoration of its 1907 gate house and perimeter fence. For more details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Col. John Perkins, the Facilities and Management Director at Camp Dodge.

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Nagesh Rao was sitting in New York visiting his family when someone on his team at the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce Department headquarters called him about a large box that just arrived.

The BIS chief information officer wasn’t expecting a delivery so, needless to say, he was a bit surprised.

As his team opened it, they found about $10,000 worth of Lenovo laptops and Microsoft Surface tablets.

At that moment, Rao knew the fraudsters were a little too close for comfort.

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The General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) cohort for 2023. That means 20 private-sector technology and innovation leaders will start pitching-in at 13 federal agencies. To learn more about this year's fellows, as well as some of the unique aspects of the program itself, Federal Drive Executive Producer Eric White spoke with Ann Lewis, Director of Technology Transformation Services at GSA.

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If the U.S. is to prevail in the world's strategic hot spots, the Defense Department will have to adopt some of the strategies China seems to be using successfully. For a closer look, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with someone who has described a system of melding private capital and commercial technology into DoD's own acquisition system. Pete Newell is the CEO of BMNT Partners.

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The looming debt ceiling will occupy the first order of business for Congress again this week. Yet budget hearings and other regular stuff will also go on. For an outlook, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.

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