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The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton provides expert insights on current events in the federal community. Read more interviews to keep up with daily news and analysis that affect the federal workforce. The Federal Drive is found at FederalNewsNetwork.com and 1500 AM in the Washington D...
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House VA lawmakers to subpoena Oracle over EHR contract
House Veterans Affairs lawmakers sought answers on Wednesday about why the Veterans Affairs Department massively increased the contract for its electr...
Recent attacks on water utilities exposed a cybersecurity challenge that's national in scope but local in responsibility
Recent attacks on water utilities have shown how quickly a local cybersecurity incident can become a national concern. The systems that deliver drinki...
It may be easier to calculate the cost of defending military bases from drones than to design defenses that can adapt as quickly as the drones do
A recent Congressional Budget Office report estimates that it could cost over $7 billion to protect military installations from unmanned aircraft. But...
As Washington races to build the next generation of national security technology, some cybersecurity experts are focused on the systems already in the field
A new White House strategy ranks the technologies viewed as most important to national security and economic competitiveness. According to one new ind...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Friday, September 4, 2026
Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
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OPM’s overhauls to FEVS pose both opportunities and risks, workforce experts say
Agencies have a few months left to survey their employees before the required end-of-year deadline. For most, it will be their first time distributing...
Agencies are being forced to take prioritized approach to software patching
Artificial intelligence is forcing agencies and industry to take a prioritized approach to software patching. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Sec...
The people earning STEM Ph.D.s aren't ending up where doctoral education was originally built to send them
The traditional Ph.D. model was built around academic research careers. As industry absorbs more advanced scientific talent, NSF is testing whether a...
The federal government is asking universities and laboratories to make more decisions about biological research risks
For years, research institutions operated under relatively defined federal standards for reviewing high-risk biological research. A new government-wid...
NASA's newest space telescope wasn't built to zoom in on a single mystery. It was built to show astronomers more of the universe at once
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope combines the image quality of Hubble with a field of view that's dramatically larger. That will allow scientists...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Thursday, September 3, 2026
Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
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OPM calls for wider AI adoption in federal hiring process
Artificial intelligence may become a more prominent part of the federal hiring process. The Office of Personnel Management is encouraging agencies to...
OMB lays out two-year move to single sign-on using Login.gov
The long journey to establish a single sign-on capability for federal services has taken a big step forward. The Office of Management and Budget is ma...
The CFPB's next director may inherit an agency that's already been fundamentally reshaped
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been through a year of significant change. As a new director's nomination moves forward, the question is...
Opportunity Zones attracted billions in investment. Measuring what that investment achieved has been much harder
Opportunity Zones were designed to bring investment into economically distressed communities, and more than $108 billion flowed into the program throu...
SBA is redesigning its digital services around the people who use them, rather than the way the agency is organized
Whether they're seeking capital, looking for information or connecting with agency services, SBA users often arrive with a need rather than an underst...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
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Quantum security ‘drumbeat’ to grow louder in federal procurement
Federal agencies will increasingly seek out technology products that use quantum-resistant encryption. That’s because scientists are getting closer to...
Treasury Dept efforts to secure federal payments takes root
Federal agency CFOs can have more confidence than ever that their agency is sending money to the right citizens. Their confidence comes from the Treas...
The government is changing some key rules that shape the federal contracting marketplace
Two recent developments are drawing attention across the contracting community: proposed changes to small-business size standards and new supply-chain...
For years, the defense industrial base was a future problem. Now it's a production problem
The Pentagon needs more ships, more munitions and more manufacturing capacity. Industry is responding, but expanding production takes time, money, and...
The Ukraine war is forcing militaries to rethink how quickly weapons and countermeasures evolve
Recent battlefield experience suggests that a new military capability may not stay effective for as long as defense planners once assumed. As adversar...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
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Trump officially plans for civilian federal pay freeze in 2027
Most civilian federal employees will not see a pay raise in 2027. An alternative pay plan from President Trump recommends a nearly governmentwide pay...
Three initiatives causing industry new concerns about DoD acquisition reforms
The Defense Department’s third message to industry since early May is prompting many contractors to strongly doubt whether Secretary Pete Hegseth’s go...
The Naval Postgraduate School has a new high performance AI computing system from NVIDIA
NVIDIA donated an advanced AI computing system to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) through the NPS Foundation, which installed it along with fundin...
A new review of AI use finds the postal industry is still sorting out what works at scale
Postal operators around the world are testing artificial intelligence in everything from package processing to customer service. A new review from the...
Congress returns next week faces a mountain of legislation, and fewer easy options available
Congress has no shortage of fiscal issues waiting when lawmakers return next week. What may be in shorter supply is the flexibility Congress has tradi...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Monday, August 31, 2026
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More troops reported sexual assaults last year as incidents fell
The Pentagon says sexual assaults in the military decreased in 2025, with an estimated 20,500 service members experiencing unwanted sexual contact. At...
Cyber vulnerabilities posed by AI push agencies to do more to get out from under legacy technology debt
Adversaries’ use of AI to find new cyber vulnerabilities or increase the speed of their attacks means agencies have to do more to get out from under t...
Americans may disagree on politics, but they seem to have a clearer picture of what they want government to do than many leaders assume
Trust in government has been declining for decades. A new Partnership for Public Service study asked a different question: What would a government tha...
The most important retirement conversation you can have with your spouse may be the one neither of you wants to have
Most couples build a retirement plan around the assumption that they'll navigate retirement together. But every retirement plan eventually becomes a o...
A Navy nurse is on a mission to improve trauma care across military medicine
Military medicine trains constantly for trauma care, but some of the tools and processes designed for adults don't always translate well to children....
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Friday, August 28, 2026
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Army moving ahead to put nuclear microreactors on military bases
The Army is moving ahead with a major effort to put nuclear microreactors on military bases, with about $2.2 billion going to five companies. The goal...
Unions challenge Trump admin overhaul of suitability, performance rules
The Trump administration is facing a new lawsuit, after overhauls to federal employee suitability and performance standards. Four federal unions argue...
Everyone agrees federal hiring and firing can take a long time, we look at what's actually causing the delay
When federal employee accountability cases drag on, attention usually turns to rules and protections. A new report looks at what happens inside the pr...
Getting help to disaster survivors takes more than good weather forecasts
For the latest Data Dish conversation, we're taking a look at the information that helps government respond to and recover from disasters. When a hurr...
The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton - - Thursday, August 27, 2026
Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
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