This week on the GovNavigators Show, Jason Miller, Executive Editor of Federal News Network joins for an extended discussion of the latest news and headlines in government management, including Tik Tok bans, vacancies at OMB, and updates to the President's Management Agenda.

And in case you haven't heard, The GovNavigators Show is now also available each Monday at 1:00 pm ET on the radio at 1500 AM and online at Federal News Network. 

Debt Deal’s done. Now we can go back to worrying about the specter of AI!

Tech Guru & AlphaAdvisors.xyz founder Kyle Murphy joins the GovNavigators to break down AI; what it means for you & government in a way even we can understand. Essential listening.

The GovNavigators are taking a break this week – enjoy a brief, pop-up Memorial Day episode. We hope you’re taking time out to reflect on the ultimate sacrifice many have made safeguarding our fragile democracy and its sacred freedoms.

And tell Francis Rose we said it right.

Max Stier, Founding President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service and Brooke Bollyky, Managing Director and Partner, North America Public Sector Practice Lead at BCG join the GovNavigators Podcast to talk about the results of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Government report.

Robert and Adam also mark the 20th anniversary of the Chief Human Capital Officer's Council and debate the merits of the IRS taking on private sector software company TurboTax, among other competitors in the tax prep software space.

Friend of the show Matthew Cornelius joins the GovNavigators Podcast to reflect on his time on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and his contributions to federal IT policy over his career. He also dishes some dirt and shares shocking personal facts about his time in college.

Robert and Adam also cover breaking news out of GAO (?!), the battle of the bots, and debate who got the better invite to events celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.

This week, Robert and Adam are joined by Doug Criscitello and Dr. Monique Mansoura, two of 34 renown experts who came together to sift through an enormous amount of information related to COVID to try to makes some sense of it all.

Doug and Monique share their insights and takeaways from a plain-spoken and clear sighted book the group published titled "Lessons from the COVID War."  

This week on the GovNavigators Podcast, Robert and Adam discuss Speaker McCarthy's triumph taking all night to pass a bill that will never become law and OPM's release of its new data strategy. Also, former Federal CIO Tony Scott joins to talk about the importance of cyber resiliency, the topic of a recent report from the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Oh, and one more thing - be sure to listen to the end to hear the first (but likely not the last) visit from the Office of Standards to the podcast.

More about the Report
Preparing the Government for Future Shocks is a new report written by Tony Scott in collaboration with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, the IBM Institute for Business Value, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Centro Studi Americani.  The report outlines four action steps designed to help build cyber resiliency that resulted from two international round-table discussions of experts.

Sandwiched between a discussion of the Professional Services Council annual conference, the release of the biennial GAO High Risk List, and a look at the week ahead, the GovNavigators talked with Independence Hydrogen's urbane CFO, Owen Barwell.

Owen walked Robert Shea and Adam Hughes through the journey from problem identification, study, and policy shaping to solution development using Independence Hydrogen's veteran-run effort to provide communities access to affordable, low-carbon hydrogen as an example.

Moving Dirt. Welding stuff. Government at work, indeed.

Friend of the show Charles Cooper from Brumidi Group joins the podcast this week to share some keen observations and his optimistic view from Capitol Hill as Congress returns to Washington.

In the news, Robert and Adam have somewhat opposing views on a new OMB memo strongly encouraging federal employees to return to the office and they also contemplate the upcoming release on quite an auspicious day of GAO's High Risk List.

With Congress still out of session for a district work period, Robert and Adam discuss a pretty hefty week in government management news, including an OMB regulatory process overhaul, a nastygram from the Department of Labor Inspector General to states, and whether IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has seen Brewster's Millions (the Richard Pryor version).

The GovNavigators also is excited to welcome noted fraud expert and CEO of Audient Group Linda Miller, who joins the podcast to share the joys of entrepreneurship and keys for detecting and preventing fraud in government.