Federal Drive with Tom Temin

Cybersecurity is a big challenge for the federal government because of the way it encompasses technology, foreign policy, national security and crime. Carrie Cordero argues that Congressional oversight of federal cybersecurity is too much of a patchwork and ought to be consolidated. Cordero is an attorney with long experience in the national security end of the government, and is now a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If anyone tells you today that they can get you certified under the Defense Department Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification or CMMC program, they are kidding you. That was the message from the DoD official leading the program, as concerns increase over false claims made by would-be third-party assessment organizations.In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about the CMMC timeline and when vendors can expect to start using qualified third-party assessors. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People often forget that when troops deploy overseas, a supporting group of civilian federal employees accompany them ... often to dangerous areas. Those civilians go through many of the same stresses as service members. The RAND Corporation has begun studying whether these employees receive enough help when they transition back to life outside of a warzone. For more on the study, Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione spoke with Rand senior political scientist Molly Dunigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a first, the State Department in January established what it describes as an enterprise-level data and analytics hub. The Center for Analytics aims to help diplomats do their jobs more effectively using data analytics. For more, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the State Department's acting chief data officer, Janice Degarmo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One backlog goes down, another one pops up. That's how it is in the background security clearance process. As the wait for clearance decisions go down, the wait for adjudications is on the rise. That's just one of the issues companies are calling out as the Defense Department tries to reform the whole process. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Congress returns to business this week, a little bloodied and dazed by political developments of last month, it's got a 2021 budget to contemplate. For this and what else is on the agenda, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with WTOP capitol hill correspondent Mitchell Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recently the Federal Labor Relations Authority turned down a request from two departments. Education and Agriculture wanted the authority to issue a policy statement clarifying what's a condition of employment and a working condition, for purposes of collective bargaining. Joining the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what it's all about, and how it might affect your agency's labor relations, the former executive director, office of general counsel, at the FLRA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trump administration has been on a tear to remove what could be fuel for wild fires on federal lands. It's set new and higher quotas for removal. With some stats on what's been cleared and how they did it, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the director of the Office of Wildland Fire at the Interior Department, Jeff Rupert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s that time of year when the Defense Department’s top leadership gets ready to defend their annual budget proposal on Capitol Hill. But leaders of the military services say considering the flat request, the only way they’ll be able to afford the long-term investments they need is to divest older weapons systems. And since those systems tend to have strong Congressional constituencies, the brass are preparing for a tough sell. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu has the story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The National Institute of Standards and Technology says there's more to come for its technology guidance for dealing with privacy. Following the release of a privacy framework last month, NIST director Walter Copan says the agency is working with industry to develop standards for more particular challenges like differential privacy, which the Census Bureau is already using for the 2020 count. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this policy rollout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Defense and intelligence agencies say 2020 is about getting their data houses in order. Both the Defense Logistics Agency and the intelligence community have big moves to the cloud coming up this year. For DLA, the cloud will kick-start a full-throated effort to adopt more artificial intelligence platforms. And for the IC, the cloud will finally bring a much-needed north star for its 17 components as a group. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 2020 National Defense Authorization did a lot of things, including righting what guardsman and reservists thought was a wrong. That had to do with credit toward their early retirement pay. For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the National Guard Association president, retired Army Brigadier General J. Roy Robinson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Navy is turning to itself to find money for the future. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly recently mandated that the service do a complete review of its programs to find forty billion dollars over five years to reprioritize into a bigger fleet and future technologies. Federal News Network’s Scott Maucione joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, to discuss what this review means for federal managers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Navy is sending a camera aboard a satellite to grab data from the poles of the sun. Yeah it's hot up there, but the resulting information could have important implications for naval operations. Dr. Robin Colaninno an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what this project is all about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Navy just awarded one of its biggest non-weapons contracts ever. Leidos will take over the new phase of the Navy's Next General Enterprise Network, in an eight-year deal worth up to $7.7 billion. To find out what happens next, the enterprise and cyber solutions operations manager at Leidos, Dan Voce, and the president of the Leidos Defense Group, Gerry Fasano spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices