The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Between follow-up to the pandemic, DoD's need to expand the defense industrial base, and the administration's desire to foster new businesses, it's a busy time for the Small Business Administration. For an update, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman.

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The Defense Department is testing out an artificial intelligence tool to help the agency write contracts and speed up the federal acquisition process. DoD’s Chief Digital and AI Office is prototyping an AI-powered contract-writing capability, called "Acqbot" as part of its Tradewind initiative.

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The Defense Industrial Base is pretty vast but, like the ice cap, it’s steadily shrinking. The latest version of an annual report by the National Defense Industrial Association finds this: Even though thousands of new companies are getting DoD contracts each year, it is not enough to make up for the number of firms leaving the Defense market. In fact, more than 17,000 companies left the Defense Industrial Base in the past five years. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has more on the statistics, and what companies say about their biggest challenges.

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Political appointees often leave an administration after the first two years. The pace of departures from the Biden administration at two years is happening at a quickening pace. That's according to a tally from Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest: Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Katie Tenpas.

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Elections are operated by local officials. So methods vary all over the country. At the federal level, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission encourages innovation each year with a program called the Clearinghouse Awards. Nominations are now open for 2022. With more on how the commission looks at elections, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with EAC Chairman Thomas Hicks.

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The Office of Personnel Management is looking to formalize an automated process for screening federal employees as part of the Biden administration’s bid to modernize governmentwide vetting processes. The changes are laid out in a proposed rule for “suitability and fitness vetting" published by OPM in the Federal Register last week. Comments on the proposed regulations are due April 3.

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The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, is supposed to make it easier for agencies to use commercial cloud computing. FedRAMP, as policy, has been around for a dozen years, but only became law at the end of last year. Will that make a difference? Federal Drive host Tom Temin got one view from attorney Michael Borgia, a partner at Davis-Wright-Tremaine.

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This week Federal Drive host Tom Temin has been interviewing some of the Defense Department's acquisition workforce award winners. In this interview, he talks with someone with a title Temin said he will only pronounce: "The finance manager for the joint program executive office for chemical, biological, radio-logical and nuclear defense joint assisted acquisition team." Here's Temin with Katie Single, the person behind that title.

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