The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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September 13, 2022 A conversation with the STEM director at the U.S. Naval Academy
The Navy is many things: sailors, ships, submarines, airplanes. In some sense, it's a science and technology enterprise. You know, STEM. Federal Drive host Tom Temin made a recent visit to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dalhgren, Virginia and spoke with Joseph McGettigan, a former Navy captain (and Dalhgren commanding officer), who is now director of the STEM Center at the Naval Academy.

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21 min
September 12, 2022 Soon we'll know how long the Continuing Resolution will be
A government shutdown in three weeks is unlikely, but Congress still has to work out the details of a Continuing Resolution. Then there's the matter of the $47 billion in immediate spending the White House has requested for COVID relief and a few other things. For the latest , Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with WTOP Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitchell Miller.

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20 min
September 12, 2022 So is the vaccine mandate for federal contractors on or off?
A three-member panel of federal judges upheld an injunction that stopped the mandate that federal contractors have COVID vaccinations. It was not a unanimous decision. The same panel -- to which the Biden Administration had appealed the injunction -- agreed that the injunction should not be nationwide. Confusing? You bet. Federal Drive host Tom Temin tried to cut throught the confusion by talking with Jenner and Block partner Matthew Haws.

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22 min
September 12, 2022 A program to foster intergovernmental cooperation points to some one-year accomplishments
A program established by the National Academy of Public Administration just marked its first year of operation. The Center for Intergovernmental Partnerships has already contributed to NAPA's work on the grand challenges in public administration. For more, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the center's director Nancy Augustine.

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24 min
September 12, 2022 White House developing cyber workforce strategy to be more ‘action oriented’
The White House is pulling together a new cybersecurity workforce strategy that promises to help the federal government grapple with longstanding cyber workforce challenges, including an emphasis on stronger implementation mechanisms to ensure agencies follow through on the plan’s goals and objectives. Agencies have long struggled to compete with the private sector for cyber talent. Mounting cyber threats combined with a tight labor market cast an especially acute focus on efforts to recruit and retain the technology workforce at this year’s Billington Cyber Summit in Washington.

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19 min
September 09, 2022 The latest DoD attempt at improving contractor cybersecurity, runs into a buzz saw
Industry has lodged a pretty strong objection to the latest version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, known as CMMC. The Defense Department has been working and reworking CMMC for several years. It's an attempt to make sure contractors have the controls in place to safeguard controlled unclassified information. The Coalition for Government Procurement has raised the latest objections. In this interview, Federal Drive host Tom Temin gets the latest from Rob Metzger, a coalition member and procurement attorney.

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24 min
September 09, 2022 The federal government knows when people are born, but not always when they die
You've heard the stories. People receiving Social Security payouts after they've died. It all stems from whether the Social Security Administration has the latest and most complete death records. Problem is, those are administered by the states. Last year Congress asked the National Academy of Public Administration to examine the sources of data for Social Security and how well it can access them. To ask about what they found, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the study's co-author, Barbara Bovjberg.

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25 min
September 09, 2022 Pentagon planning new guidance to help contractors squeezed by inflation
The Defense Department is preparing new guidance that would give its contracting officers more flexibility to reimburse vendors whose costs have ballooned because of inflation, updating an earlier policy document that industry groups complained did too little to prevent contractors from bearing the full brunt of higher prices.The update is in the final review stages and should be published within the next week, said Dr. Bill LaPlante, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment. A key focus would be to offer relief to companies who signed firm fixed-price contracts with the government before inflation took hold.

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20 min
September 09, 2022 Pentagon planning new guidance to help contractors squeezed by inflation
The Defense Department is preparing new guidance that would give its contracting officers more flexibility to reimburse vendors whose costs have ballooned because of inflation, updating an earlier policy document that industry groups complained did too little to prevent contractors from bearing the full brunt of higher prices.The update is in the final review stages and should be published within the next week, said Dr. Bill LaPlante, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment. A key focus would be to offer relief to companies who signed firm fixed-price contracts with the government before inflation took hold.

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20 min
September 08, 2022 New approach to buying digital services slowly becoming the norm
Four years ago when the Office of Federal Procurement Policy set a deadline of 2022 to train acquisition workers to buy technology differently, it thought it was giving agencies plenty of time to accomplish this goal.
The idea of the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program (DITAP) came from a competition held in 2015 to improve the federal government’s approach to buying digital services. Joanie Newhart, the associate administrator for acquisition workforce programs at OFPP, said agencies will come close to meeting deadline set in 2018 to institutionalize the DITAP process.

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21 min

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