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The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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The Federal Drive with Terry Gertonprovides expert insights on current events in the federal community.Read more interviewsto keep up with daily news and analysis that affect the federal workforce. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.

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18:11

Uh-oh, satisfaction with federal government services...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/07

Citizen satisfaction with government services fell again last year. In fact, the satisfaction index fell to the lowest point since measurement started back in 1999. Here with the details, the director of research for the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Forrest Morgeson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:18

The military has a hard time doing its job when...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/07

What an irony. Congressional appropriations committees hold hearings on what harm might hit the military from Congress's own inability to pass a budget on time. But the security threat is real, according to my next guest. Retired Marine Corps major general Arnold Punaro is chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:16

White House to propose 4.6% raise for feds in 2023

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/07

As Federal News Network exclusively reported late Friday, the Biden administration is proposing a nearly 5% pay raise for federal employees next hear. We got more from Federal News Network's Jason Miller. -AND- The Biden administration wants to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by the federal government by 2050. The General Services Administration and the Defense Department are in the market for greener sources of electricity. Meanwhile, the White House is threatening to hold up the Postal

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16:07

Pentagon shifts CMMC program to CIO, eliminates...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/07

The Defense Department’s contractor cybersecurity initiative is on the move. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program will no longer be run out of the Pentagon’s acquisition directorate. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:26

Foreign hackers up their game, your agency may not be...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/04

The so-called insider threat remains a potent one for cybersecurity practitioners. But old fashioned outside hackers have been raising their capabilities. Now they're the biggest threat to governments at all levels. Those are among the findings of the latest annual cybersecurity survey done by software vendor SolarWinds. Here with the highlights, Solar Winds chief information security officer, Tim Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:29

How procurement supports the mission at USAID

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/04

In order to do good around the world, the U.S. Agency for International Development has to buy goods and services and make grants, around the world. It amounts to more than $20 billion a year. Overseeing it all is my next guest, who is also the recipient recipient of a Presidential Rank Award. Mark Walther is USAID's senior procurement executive and chief acquisition officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:39

Vendors bidding on the $50 billion CIO-SP4 get dealt...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/04

Vendors bidding on the $50 billion CIO-SP4 governmentwide acquisition contract, and there are scores of them, may be feeling like ping pong balls. The NIH IT Acquisition and Assessment Center, known as NITAAC, reversed course on its requirements for final proposals, barely a week after reversing them in the first place. Bids are due in a week .Federal News Network's Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with the latest, Amendment 16 of this highly sought GWAC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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15:57

Defueling Red Hill bunker isn't going to be that easy

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/04

Hawaii health officials have ordered the Navy to remove fuel from a massive storage bunker after leaks made their way into a nearby aquifer. But the Pentagon announced this week it plans to fight the order in court, partly because officials see the Red Hill bunker as strategically vital to Navy operations in the Pacific. For more on the next steps – and why defueling Red Hill isn’t so easy – Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu talked with Tim Walton, a fellow and military logistics expert at the

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18:12

Now there's a guide for how agencies can transform,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/03

Agencies all seem to be pursuing digital transformation. A way of improving service to the public and of how they operate internally. But how to you get there? A small team from the modernization community of interest at ACT-IAC has assembled a list of best practices for digital transformation. Joining me with more, from the industry side, Erika Flora, the CEO of Beyond 20, and from the government side, the General Services Administration's innovation and adoption lead Alison O'Mara. Learn more

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18:03

A long time Coastie is now the top civilian in Coast...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/03

After spending 30 years in a Coast Guard uniform, my next guest has donned a business suit and joined the senior executive service. But he's still with the Coast Guard, as the new deputy assistant commandant for intelligence. Jeffrey Radgowski joined the Federal Drive to discuss his new role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:25

This senior executive has ensured U.S. wildlife...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/03

For fish and wildlife to thrive in the United States, they need space. My next guest as spent a career helping secure woods and grasslands that support conservation. Now he's a recipient of a Presidential Rank Award, one in a series of interviews of PRA winners, the deputy director for program management and policy at the Fish and Wildlife Service, Steve Guertin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:48

On top of increasing minimum wage, OPM also looking...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/03

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management made some big news, raising the minimum wage for federal employees to $15/hour. Besides the living wage angle, there’s also a diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility angle. Federal News Network's David Thornton has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:09

Service members of color face racial harassment,...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/03

It might be 2022 and three quarters of a century since integration of the military. But minority officers and enlisted people still report experiencing racism inside the ranks and in local communities. That's among the findings in a new, first-of-its-kind study by Blue Star Families. It details experiences of minorities in the military, and why the situation presents a recruitment obstacle. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione has more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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15:59

Congress wants to overhaul FISMA. Agencies are...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/02

Members of Congress are pushing to overhaul federal cybersecurity standards. But agencies are already starting to measure security a lot differently this year. That’s because the White House made some big revisions to quarterly cybersecurity metrics. Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday reported on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:18

Study of GAO bid protest data shows why it's hard to...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/02

One of the great parlor games in federal procurement is adding up the number of award protests every year. But because of the way the Government Accountability Office compiles the numbers, it's hard to understand the real patterns. This is the topic of a recently published paper. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin got a summary from Smith Pachter McWhorter attorney Joseph Petrillo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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21:06

EPA acquisitions leader receives Presidential Rank Award

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/02

When it comes to acquisition, Kimberly Patrick has done it all. She used lean management to reduce backlogs and speed up procurements, brought senior agency management into acquisition planning, found innovative ways to meet small business goals. She's the director of Office of Acquisition Solutions, Office of Mission Support at the EPA, and the recent recipient of a Presidential Rank Award. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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16:37

VA automating disability claims processing to cut...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/02

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it’s processing its backlog of disability claims faster than ever. But it’s also getting new disability claims faster than ever. To get ahead, the VA is turning to automation to process some claims in as little as a day or two. Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman had more on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:36

Government's responses to major cyber breaches were...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/02

The name SolarWinds has become synonymous with a scary cybersecurity crisis. It's one of at least two widescale breaches to which the government had to respond. The other is when hackers showed they could get into and take over Microsoft Exchange Server. The Government Accountability Office took a look at the federal response to these two incidents. The director of GAO's Information Technology and Cybersecurity team Jennifer Franks joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with what they found. Learn

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18:06

A big governmentwide telecom contract just can't seem...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/01

On of the weirder federal I-T developments of recent years is how slowly agencies are using a governmentwide telecom contract that's supposed to be mandatory. It's the Enterprise Information Solutions multiple-award program operated by the General Services Administration. For some facts and figures, and why this might be happening, the Federal Drive turned to federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:08

Why NASA has a crucial need to transform itself from...

The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton ·

2022/02/01

NASA, famously and consistently the best place to work in government, has an urgent need to transform itself and how it operates. That's the principal finding of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, in its latest annual report to Congress. For highlights, we turn to the panel chair, Dr. Patricia Sanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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