Tom Temin
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A legitimate complaint against government wrongdoing, or merely a nuisance? In this case, the Government Accountability Office says it was clearly the latter. GAO barred a company called Latvian Connection from filing bid protests. That was after the company filed 150 of them in the same year. Federal contracting specialist Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, about the highly unusual case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 13, 2016 -
The crucial partnership on military basics between the Defense Department and Congress is badly frayed, and the military will be the worse for it.
October 13, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Defense Business Board has career advice for Pentagon career officials concerning the upcoming presidential transition.
October 13, 2016 -
If 800-160 establishes, or re-establishes anything, it's that security is an engineering discipline.
October 13, 2016 -
The Obama administration's cancer moonshot has brought three agencies together. They're collaborating on a specific and highly promising approach to the treatment of lung cancer called the Applied Proteo-genomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes consortium, which involves the National Cancer Institute and the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments. Dr. Henry Rodriguez, director of Proteo-genomics Research, and Dr. Warren Kibbe, director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology at NCI, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what the Institute is bringing to the consortium.
October 12, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Postal Service's Inspector General conducted a survey to see how the American public feels about drones potentially delivering mail and packages.
October 12, 2016 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence develops guidance and best practices on broad cybersecurity concepts that can be applied across multiple business environments.
October 12, 2016 -
As the noisy election campaign rumbles on, Capitol Hill Republicans and Democrats are eyeing one another in preparation for that lame duck session. David Hawkings, senior editor at Roll Call, is a student of the lame duck. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how this years version is likely to play out.
October 11, 2016 -
Flint, Michigan showed what can happen with water systems in a worst case. Local and state officials asked, where was the EPA? Katie Butler, director of water evaluations at the EPA's Office of Inspector General, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some answers.
October 11, 2016 -
Planning can't change the weather, but it can improve the time between disaster striking and people getting their lives back together.
October 11, 2016 -
Nora Bensahel, distinguished scholar in residence at American University, and retired Lt. Gen. David Barno, a distinguished practitioner there, are co-authors of The Future of the Army, published by the Atlantic Council. They walked Federal Drive with Tom Temin through some of the budget challenges the Army currently faces.
October 11, 2016 -
Congress only gave agencies funding until Dec. 9 when it passed a continuing resolution last month. It funded itself for all of 2017. Yet some executive branch accounts also got full-year funding, something contractors need to know about. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 10, 2016 -
Hart's and Holmstrom's work studied tensions between parties and conflicts of interest in contracts, something federal contracting officers deal with every day.
October 10, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, there's a big prize out there from the space agency for those who come up with ways for future explorers to build habitats in space.
October 10, 2016 -
Two locations typify the ongoing management issues at the Veterans Affairs Department. Fresh investigations by the VA inspector general show what went wrong with the replacement hospital under construction near Denver and how the department wasted nearly $1 billion and scheduling problems continue to plague the Phoenix medical center. VA Inspector General Michael Missal share the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 07, 2016