Radio Interviews

  • Tony Scott, the federal CIO, and Anne Rung, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, are working together on a series of initiatives, including new policies around enterprise software contracts and common desktop configurations.

    June 22, 2015
  • Ilya Somin of the Cato Institute discusses eminent domain law.

    June 20, 2015
  • Ilya Somin of the Cato Institute discusses eminent domain law.

    June 20, 2015
  • Dr. Andrea Morris, director of Urban Resilience, Arlington Economic Development, Arlington County Virginia, will explain what urban resilience is, and where the field is going in the future. June 19, 2015

    June 19, 2015
  • Jason Briefel, hosts a roundtable discussion of how federal conference and travel restrictions are affecting government, the industry and stakeholders. June 19, 2015

    June 19, 2015
  • Keith Trippie, chief executive officer of the Trippie Group and former executive officer of DHS\' Enterprise System Development Office counts down the week\'s top federal stories with Francis Rose.

    June 19, 2015
  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) joins a growing number of lawmakers questioning the Office of Personnel Management\'s decision to hire Winvale and CSID to provide credit monitoring services. As Federal News Radio first reported, OPM\'s $21 million award to Winvale raises serious concerns among procurement experts. Now Warner and the American Federation of Government Employees want answers as feds are reporting customer service from the vendor is lacking. Federal News Radio\'s Executive Editor Jason Miller tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the contract, and why some procurement experts question it.

    June 19, 2015
  • Yesterday, the Senate passed its version of the 2016 defense authorization bill. As the main sponsor is fond of pointing out, this year\'s version is a \"reform bill.\" It\'s also finished before the start of the new fiscal year - a big contrast to how the NDAA process has worked out over the last several years. Federal News Radio\'s DoD Reporter Jared Serbu is writing about the bill as part of this week\'s edition of inside the reporter\'s notebook.

    June 19, 2015
  • President Barack Obama wants to spend his last 18 months in office turning government technology on its head. Obama says government\'s procurement systems are broken, but he believes organizations like the U.S. Digital Service can change the way people develop, buy and use new technology. Tom Shoop is editor-in-chief at Government Executive magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the likelihood of a major systemic change in the way government buys and implements new technology.

    June 19, 2015
  • Agencies now have 30 days to sprint to new cybersecurity standards after multiple data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management. But some chief information security officers say they are more concerned about what impact a cyber attack will have on their organization\'s reputation than the data itself that\'s at risk. That\'s according to a new report from the RAND Corporation, \"The Defender\'s Dilemma: Charting a Course Toward Cybersecurity.\" Martin Libicki, a senior management scientist and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, is a co-author of the report. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose what he heard from 18 CISOs about their cybersecurity operations.

    June 19, 2015
  • On the latest episode of Studio Y, producer Michael O\'Connell talks to Steve Ressler, the founder of Young Government Leaders and Gov Loop, who organized the upcoming Next Generation of Government Training Summit.

    June 19, 2015
  • \"There but for the grace of God go I.\" Every federal chief information officer could have said that on Tuesday as Donna Seymour was grilled by House lawmakers about the cyber breach sustained by the Office of Personnel Management. OPM\'s CIO survived her initial time on the House hot seat; she\'ll face fire from the Senate soon. But any federal CIO could easily be in that position next week, next month or next year. Federal News Radio\'s executive editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what CIOs and other federal technology managers should be doing to stay out of the hot seat.

    June 19, 2015