The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Contractors have only a couple more weeks to comment on a so-called climate risk rule. If it becomes final, the rule would impose big reporting and operational costs. This as the Pentagon and the industry are trying to figure out how to deal with inflation-related upswings in costs. To help sort it all out, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Zach Prince.

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Few acquisitions seem to vex the government more than information technology. It's a major expenditure each year, at something like a hundred billion dollars governmentwide. One civilian in the Air Force has demonstrated how to buy IT. He's Ops-C-2 Acquisition Chief at Hanscom Air Force Base, and one of this year's Defense Acquisition Workforce Award winners. Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Ryan Silvonic.

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The U.S. Agency for International Development has always used private sector groups to deliver services in various countries. Now the agency has launched what it calls Private Sector Engagement Modernize, to deal with the private sector in a new way. For the whys and hows, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the Executive Director of USAID's private sector engagement hub, Michael Metzler.

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A shift in power in the House brings with it looming threats to agency leaders, by putting them at risk of deeper and likely more adversarial investigations. Republican leaders on the Oversight and Accountability Committee have already promised to carry out exactly what the new committee name suggests: accountability. As Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee’s chairman, organizes his plans to zero in on more robust oversight of the Biden administration, career feds should prepare to position themselves more assertively.

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The Defense Department is telling its acquisition people to use what's known as category management to expand the use of small business. But for years, small business has argued that category management actually limits the number of vendors who can sell to government. To help analyze the matter, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with Professional Services Council President & CEO, David Berteau.

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In order to know whether they get a fair price for something, the armed forces need to know the cost of making it. That's where the cost estimating and discovery part of acquisition comes in. For her work, Stephanie Quintal, Deputy Cost Chief of the Air Force, won one of this year's Defense Acquisition Workforce Awards. She's spoke with Federal Drive host Tom Temin.

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The House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress went out of business with the conclusion of the 117th Congress. But the committee's long list of recommendations will continue under a new subcommittee. The former select committee chair, Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) discussed this in a Q-and-A with U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive VP Tom Quaadman at a Chamber event in D.C. on Friday, February 3.

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The White House officially got the ball rolling on the 14th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC) Jan. 31, with a mandated look at whether service members are paid enough in current economic conditions. The memorandum directs the Secretary of Defense to complete the review within two years.

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Susan, a primary care psychologist at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, moved to Japan four years ago because she and her husband wanted to experience the world. A safe country with world-class infrastructure seemed an ideal place to raise their first child. Well...

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