Federal Drive

  • Maybe you should look into Capital Bikeshare to get to work. Or paddling the Potomac.

    May 23, 2016
  • The Office of Personnel Management's cybersecurity breach stands as a kind of watershed. But results from a survey by ISC(2) and KPMG show the lessons may not have penetrated the ranks of federal security chiefs. Dan Waddell, managing director for North America with ISC(2) and Tony Hubbard, a principal with KPMG, share more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    May 20, 2016
  • In the age of cyber attacks, it's a little tougher to know exactly what constitutes an act of war. But it's a question of growing importance. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) thinks the administration ought to define a cyber act of war. He talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about legislation he introduced to do just that.

    May 20, 2016
  • The National Weather Service's Global Forcecast System has twice the resolution as before, promising to have profound effect on weather forecasting. Joining me to explain it all, the National Weather Service director Dr. Louis Uccellini, NWS director, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    May 20, 2016
  • The Navy has formed a temporary organization to gather information and investigate a path toward interoperability and integration for its systems.

    May 20, 2016
  • President Obama has nominated Adm. Michelle Howard to be the next head of U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and Allied Joint Forces Command. Howard would be the first woman to reach the rank of four-star admiral.

    May 20, 2016
  • A cyber attack can do real damage to both computer systems and infrastructure controlled by computer. But would it constitute and act of war?

    May 20, 2016
  • Sometimes the government has really, really specific requirements it puts out for bids. For example, if it needs left-handed forklift operators, you can't bid right-handed ones. Or left-handed front-end loader operators. The Air Force and a company called All World Language Consultants didn't quite follow that policy. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    May 19, 2016
  • Public policy creation and implementation will be the chief tasks of next year's new administration. Bob Tobias, professor in the Key Leadeship program at American University, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss some ways on how to make it happen effectively,

    May 19, 2016
  • For a variety of reasons, a large number of people seem to be leaving government for the private sector. Greg Kushto, a former cyber official at the Department of Agriculture and now the director of the Security Practice at Force 3, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin this could mean a brain drain in crucial cybersecurity skills.

    May 19, 2016
  • Defense Secretary Ash Carter has aired his grievances over certain provisions in the House and Senate defense authorization bills.

    May 19, 2016
  • Is bias or deliberate discrimination the sole cause of women professionals being paid less? It would be glib and easy to say so, but likely incorrect.

    May 19, 2016
  • The federal government has enough trouble hiring people, especially young people. It's hard to get millennials in the door, but once you do, how do you keep them? Mallory Barg Bulman, director of research at the Partnership for Public Service, shares a few ideas on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    May 18, 2016
  • The Navy is trying to “revolutionize” the meals it feeds its sailors, both ashore and while they’re underway. To do that, they turned to sailors themselves, and to academia, using the “design thinking process” to help shape the future of the Navy's chow. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Lt. Cmdr. Keith Capper, director of the Navy Food Service, and Jennifer Person-Whippo, a dietician in the Navy Supply Systems Command, talked with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu at the Sea Air Space expo at the Gaylord National Convention Center, in National Harbor, Maryland.

    May 18, 2016