National Institutes of Health

• Ricardo Herring, Director of Facilities Planning, National Institutes of Health

  The National Institutes of Health's massive Bethesda campus is going to undergo quite the facelift over the next couple of decades. NIH has put together a 20-year, 500-page plan for the campus that will include 17 new buildings. Ricardo Herring, the director of the Division of Facilities Planning at NIH, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on what NIH is planning.

  Federal Drive

  February 25, 2015
• GSA, NOAA roar into March with major IT, services RFPs

  The General Services Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plan to release major IT and services solicitations in the coming month. The draft RFPs are part of the broader effort to change the government's approach to acquisition.

  Management

  February 20, 2015
• What’s it like in the GWAC world?

  NASA SEWP Program Manager Joanne Woytek and Rob Coen, acting director the NIH's GWAC program will discuss a wide range of issues including interagency contracting and strategic sourcing. December 16, 2014

  Off the Shelf

  December 16, 2014
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health

  Researchers at the National Institutes of Health announced a vaccine they've been testing for the Ebola virus appears to be safe so far, and that a clinical study in West Africa could happen in early 2015. Is it too good to be true? Dr. Anthony Fauci is the director of NIH's National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain why the latest study's finding of the vaccine's safety is an important step forward.

  Federal Drive

  December 03, 2014
• What’s it like in the GWAC world?

  NASA SEWP Program Manager Joanne Woytek and Rob Coen, acting director the NIH's GWAC program will discuss a wide range of issues including interagency contracting and strategic sourcing. November 18, 2014

  Off the Shelf

  November 18, 2014
• GAO: Some agencies hit harder than others during sequestration

  A new report from the Government Accountability Office says that some agencies, including the Departments of Energy, Transportation and Health and Human Services, experienced stalled grants and contract activity during the government shutdown of 2013.

  Budget

  November 17, 2014
• Conversation with Authors: Professor Harry Lambright

  Conversation with Authors: Professor Harry Lambright on Leaders and Leadership - Lessons from Robert Gates, Francis Collins, and NASA Administrators

  Defense

  August 29, 2014
• AFCEA-Bethesda, Children’s Inn end partnership for annual charitable gala

  The Children's Inn at NIH will not be involved with AFCEA-Bethesda's annual fundraising gala in 2015 after a change in the number of charitable recipients involved in the event.

  Acquisition

  July 10, 2014
• Dr. William Gahl, Program Director, National Institutes of Health

  Each year, sick people are told they have diseases so rare, they can't be diagnosed. Investigators at the National Institutes of Health looked at hundreds of cold cases. They've created a new network to tackle these mysterious diseases. The Undiagnosed Diseases Network will recruit doctors to conduct research that planners hope will lead to better understanding of these puzzling symptoms and find treatments. Six universities around the country have signed on. NIH Program Director Dr. William Gahl joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss the new effort.

  Federal Drive

  July 07, 2014
• Janine Clayton, NIH

  At one time, medical researchers conducted their studies only on men. That started changing more than 20 years ago. Now, the National Institutes of Health says more than half of human research subjects are women. But when it comes to research on animals, or even cells, most continues to be done on males. Janine Clayton wants to change that. She's the Associate Director for Research on Women's Health at NIH. She joined Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to explain the new research policy.

  Federal Drive

  May 28, 2014
• Rob Coen, Acting Director, NIH IT Acquisition and Assessment Center

  Proponents of government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) say agencies are starting to understand their value. They are optimistic even though less than 15 percent of all federal IT spending goes through GWACs now. Rob Coen, acting director of NIH's Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, spoke with Federal Drive host Emily Kopp about the GWAC programs NIH manages. Kopp caught up with Coen at the recent Acquisition Excellence Conference.

  Federal Drive

  March 26, 2014
• Agencies setting off into the next data frontier — procurement

  GSA, NASA and NIH are providing agency customers more insight into what they are buying, how they are buying it and what prices they are paying. OFPP plans to launch the Prices Paid Portal later this year. But others say it's not about the data, but the outcomes agencies are trying to achieve.

  Management

  March 21, 2014
• John Teeter, Global Center of Excellence for Health, KPMG

  Health care data comes from unexpected places.

  All News

  March 20, 2014
• Benjamin Corb, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  Can science agencies bounce back from sequestration?

  Federal Drive

  March 14, 2014