When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analy...
As RIFs get underway, several agencies renew deferred resignation offers
Many federal employees are seeing a familiar email land in their inboxes. A number of agencies have revived the fork in the road offers. They're telling employees they can choose to quit now in exchange for a few months of pay. The renewed offer comes as many agencies are beginning to conduct reductions in force. Here with more Federal News Network's Drew Friedman.
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How the Navy is developing and expanding its suite of enterprise services
When it comes to shared services, the Navy isn't taking a build it and they will come approach to enterprise services. The goal instead is to find an office that will lead the effort to build something so good that not only do other offices want to use it, but the shared services become boring and invisible to the mission. For more on how the Department of the Navy is developing and expanding its suite of Enterprise Services. Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller caught up with Justin Finelli, the Department of the Navy's Chief Technology Officer.
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The Navy's shipbuilding capabilities are slowly sinking
The Navy has invested billions in its shipbuilding industrial base. But the results haven't come in. Ships take to long to build. And often too long to repair. Navy officials can't say for certain how well their investments are paying off that's according to the latest look-see by the Government Accountability Office. For details, we turn to the GAO's director for contracting and national security acquisition, Shelby Oakley.
Read the report here: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-106286#summary_recommend
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The government confirms its rights to certain contractor intellectual property
A recent dispute between the Air Force and a simulation software subcontractor proved an important point. The government has rights to certain intellectual property by challenging so-called markings. Notes on who can do what with images, drawings, technical data. Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish joins me now with more on this case.
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Can the judiciary handle all the new lawsuits stemming from the Trump administration's actions?
The Trump Administration's approach inherited from Silicon Valley of move fast and break things may be able to go unchecked in the business sector. However when done in government there can be certain legal hurdles to account for. Already there are many suits being brought in federal and state courts to challenge some of the White House's actions, much of which involve the cancelling of funding opportunities or work force reductions. It begs the question, can the judicial branch handle this new workload that will come from settling these disputes, and making sure their decisions are respected? For some perspective on this, we welcome Richard Pierce a law professor with George Washington University.
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When he's not tooling around the National Capital region on his motorcycle, Tom Temin interviews federal executives and government contractors who provide analysis and insight on the many critical issues facing the Executive branch. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D.C. region.
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