The Veterans Choice Act provides VA with the opportunity to redefine what its role will be in 10 years.
Few types of deals raise the hackles of services contractors more than lowest-price, technically acceptable. Some recent protest decisions should should make them feel a little better about LPTA. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo and Powell tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin they can and have won with higher prices when they justify higher costs.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, President Trump's budget request includes a boost in defense spending and contractors could see a healthy chunk of it.
President Donald Trump's reorganization order is a little different. His stated objective is for government to do less.
For the Veterans Affairs Department, low morale and difficulty attracting talent are two of the challenges keeping it on the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list. Margot Conrad, director of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, offers her take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Intelligence Advanced Projects Research Activity is using crowdsourcing to improve human reasoning. It's called the CREATE program. Dr. Steve Rieber, the program director, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Office of Personnel Management makes agreements with four new universities for federal employees looking for more education.
While the health care legislation debate grows heated, a few senators are thinking about the coming end of the 2017 budget continuing resolution and what to do about passing a 2018 budget by Sept. 30. Voices in the wilderness or a growing Congressional movement? Roll Call Senior Editor David Hawkings has some answers on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
What happens when a government contractor employee calls out to the government suspected wrongdoing by his or her company? That's the topic of an ongoing pilot program launched in 2013. Marie Mak, director of acquisition and sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how that program is working out.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, after a bit of a wait, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office responds to a Freedom of Information Act request asking who was in charge.
If you added them all together, the K-12 schools operated by the Defense Department would be one of the nation's biggest districts. That's just one of the services available elsewhere that maybe the military ought to get out of.
The Defense innovation unit on the West Coast hasn't shut it doors with the change in administration. But there's a danger in all of this innovation when it comes to procurement and treatment. Dave Wennergren, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Gail Wilensky, a former federal health official and senior fellow at Project Hope, has been part of the oversight of reforms at the Veterans Affairs Department. She joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update on reform.
Last week's news of Facebook accounts to which member of the Marine Corps posted compromising photos of their female colleagues prompted a response from Commandant Robert Neller. Kate Hendricks Thomas, a Marine Corps veteran and now assistant professor at Charleston Southern University, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin top leadership is where the end of sexual harassment has to start.
The Defense Department hit a major milestone a few weeks ago, bringing its new electronic health record system online at its first facility. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu visited Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington to talk with clinicians and Defense health officials about how the new system, MHS Genesis, is working so far. He filed this report on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.