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Small business advocates are sounding alarm bells over the Small Business Administration's fiscal 2026 budget request, the White House is proposing to eliminate several long standing programs that support the development of small businesses, including the Women's Business Centers, and score for more on the potential impact on small businesses if the Trump administration cuts funding for these programs. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller talked to Bridget Weston, the CEO of Score.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A second group of consulting contractors is coming under the General Services Administration's microscope. A new set of 10 vendors have until this Friday to submit data analysis and options for potential savings on their existing consulting contracts to GSA and agency customers for review. For more on GSA s continued effort to reshape federal consulting contracts. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller joins me now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The looming partial government shutdown would hit federal contractors when many are already feeling down. At least one company is already starting to feel the effects of the Trump administration's efforts to terminate what it says are duplicative or nonessential contracts. Now, a possible shutdown threatens even more dire circumstances for what's happening in the contractor community, Federal News Networks's Executive Editor Jason Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The looming partial government shutdown would hit federal contractors when many are already feeling down. At least one company is already starting to feel the effects of the Trump administration's efforts to terminate what it says are duplicative or nonessential contracts. Now, a possible shutdown threatens even more dire circumstances for what's happening in the contractor community, Federal News Networks's Executive Editor Jason Miller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Over the first three weeks of the Trump administration's shock and awe approach to reorder the government contractors have been unusually quiet. From the canceling of contracts to efforts to reduce the federal workforce. Industry and their associations have not publicly vocalized any broad concerns or offered any true opposition to U.S. DOGE services. In his reporters notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why contractors are laying low for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Overthe first three weeks of the Trump administration's shock and awe approach to reorder the government contractors have been unusually quiet. From the canceling of contracts to efforts to reduce the federal workforce. Industry and their associations have not publicly vocalized any broad concerns or offered any true opposition to U.S. DOGE services. In his reporters notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why contractors are laying low for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its better contracting initiative more than a year ago. Leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprise wide software licenses, a long time bugaboo for federal agencies. Well, guess what? The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise. GSA says its IT vendor management office is close to finalizing a government wide deal with Microsoft. For details, Federal. Executive Editor Jason Miller, caught up with GSA Assistant Commissioner IT category, Laura Stanton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its better contracting initiative more than a year ago. Leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprise wide software licenses, a long time bugaboo for federal agencies. Well, guess what? The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise. GSA says its IT vendor management office is close to finalizing a government wide deal with Microsoft. For details, Federal. Executive Editor Jason Miller, caught up with GSA Assistant Commissioner IT category, Laura Stanton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The 40-year old COBOL code that runs the Office of Personnel Management's Retirement System is on a glide path to its sunset. OPM will embark on a two-year project to modernize the back end software and open the door for faster and easier front end user focused services. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller joins me with details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 40-year old COBOL code that runs the Office of Personnel Management's Retirement System is on a glide path to its sunset. OPM will embark on a two-year project to modernize the back end software and open the door for faster and easier front end user focused services. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller joins me with details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Integrated acquisition environment is facing an expanding customer base, while the name of the system screams acquisition, the General Services Administration officials realize a broader cross section of federal managers that work in grants, legal offices and agency specific programs. They also rely on the system and its data to make decisions. For more, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller caught up with the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for GSA Integrated Award Environment Memi Whitehead, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Integrated acquisition environment is facing an expanding customer base, while the name of the system screams acquisition, the General Services Administration officials realize a broader cross section of federal managers that work in grants, legal offices and agency specific programs. They also rely on the system and its data to make decisions. For more, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller caught up with the Deputy Assistant Commissioner for GSA Integrated Award Environment Memi Whitehead, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

U.S. Special Forces Command Small Business Innovation Research Program; it's unique among efforts around the government. Congress gave SOCOM a special authority back in 2021 to do business to business transitions through the Softworks organization. For more about how SOCOM is using this authority to meet service member needs more quickly, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller spoke with Director of Science and Technology for Special Operations Forces, Lisa Sanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Special Forces Command Small Business Innovation Research Program; it's unique among efforts around the government. Congress gave SOCOM a special authority back in 2021 to do business to business transitions through the Softworks organization. For more about how SOCOM is using this authority to meet service member needs more quickly, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller spoke with Director of Science and Technology for Special Operations Forces, Lisa Sanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Only in the last year has the 2019 Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act started to demonstrate a real impact on agency missions. As agencies updated their strategic plans for 2022, many used the law to drive better cross-agency conversations. For more, David Walters, the chief of strategic planning, performance management and reporting branch at the NASA Johnson Space Center; Harry Knight, the executive director for China and former director of the Office of Performance Evaluation at the Commerce Department; and Jeff Yefsky, the CEO of the Performance Institute spoke to Executive Editor Jason Miller at a recent panel on this week's Ask the CIO.

As the number of data centers continue to shrink year after year, agencies must make the hard decision about how best to optimize the remaining on-premise facilities. With another 54 planned closures in the final months of fiscal 2022, the 1,500 or so remaining are primed to advance their use of energy metering tools, server virtualization technologies and approaches to decrease the number of servers and increase the utilization of those that do remain. Tom Santucci, director of IT modernization within the General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy, and Steven Naumann, a senior advisor in Office of IT modernization within OGP, spoke to Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO more about it.

Like their federal brethren, state government chief information officers found themselves in an expanded role over the last few years. These CIOs say the biggest change, however, may be how other state agencies see the value of technology, how critical it is to the delivery of services and the productivity of state employees. Doug Robinson, the executive director of the National Association of State CIOs, and Graeme Finley of Grant Thornton, joined Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO to talk about their recent survey, which shows just how much has changed over the last few years.

The pandemic put unprecedented pressure on state and federal unemployment insurance programs. Systems including call centers and claims processing struggled to handle the demand, but across the states the state of technology for these needs varies. From the Labor Department, Chief Information Officer Gundeep Ahluwalia and Michele Evermore, deputy director for Policy in the Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization, joined Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO to talk about modernizing the federal unemployment insurance program.

Usually, the annual budget request to Congress is more of a policy document than a spending plan based in any sort of reality. The Biden administration's first full budget request fell short on the policy side, particularly around technology and cybersecurity. Unless you know where to look. Well, you're in luck — Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller does know where to look, and he joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with highlights from weekly feature the Reporter's Notebook.

The governmentwide initiative to modernize payroll services across the government is ready to come out from behind the curtain two years after launching. The General Services Administration will deliver its first set of capabilities under the NewPay program this fall. Executive Editor Jason Miller joined the Federal Drive with details about the administration’s effort to get shared services out of the starting gate in fiscal 2021.

A second shoe is about to drop part of a federal regulatory effort to keep certain Chinese made telecommunications products and services out of the federal supply chain. Starting August 13, agencies must include a clause in all contracts that prohibits any company they do business with from using products from ZTE, Huawei and others. Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about what the rule will mean for agencies and contractors alike, and discussed the topic on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Federal News Network devotes a lot of coverage to IT modernization, one of the most expensive and important management initiative in the government. Federal Drive with Tom Temin's host wrote a column this week on efforts by the IRS to replace the very old code in its individual master file system. Executive Editor Jason Miller, the in-house point man on IT, joined Temin for a discussion.

Don't break out the party hats quite yet, but the results in the latest Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) report to Congress does deserve some celebrating. The Office of Management and Budget said for the first time agencies suffered from no major cyber incidents in 2018. On top of that, agencies also saw fewer overall cyber attacks last year. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller had the details about why agencies deserve a little pat on the back for their cyber efforts. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

House appropriators are proposing a 3.1% pay raise for civilian employees in 2020. That's quite a departure from the president's proposed pay freeze for federal employees next year. The raise is just one of several provisions that are part of a new draft bill from the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. Federal News Network's Nicole Ogrysko and Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about tidbits they found.

The president's 2020 budget request is out and it's a mixed bag of old and new proposals. On one hand, it includes a historic number of spending cuts mostly at civilian agencies. On the other hand, the White House has made the same familiar proposals to cut federal employee retirement and health benefits. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller and Reporter Nicole Ogrysko joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to break down the details of the president's new request.

The Defense Department's $10 billion cloud contract known as JEDI is entering new ground. Federal News Network has confirmed that the DoD inspector general and the FBI have launched a preliminary investigation into the Joint Defense Enterprise Infrastructure or JEDI program. And into the Washington Headquarters Services role in this and other acquisitions. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller broke the news of the preliminary investigation. Jason joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.

The federal technology hit a crescendo in 2018. And there are plenty of signals that say the management, buying and use of technology is only going to get better. In many ways, the last 12 months laid the foundation for major progress in 2019 and beyond. As part of our ongoing look ahead to 2019, Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with his take on the year that was and why there is plenty to celebrate when it comes to federal IT in 2018.

With all the talk this week about a possible partial government shutdown, the one issue that seems to get lost in this discussion is the impact all of this is having on federal contractors. Fortunately, or really unfortunately, industry is getting used to this game of shutdown cat and mouse. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller digs into the ongoing challenge vendors face as the Congress and the White House negotiate over funding. Jason joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.

The General Services Administration has been talking about modernizing its $31 billion schedules program for much of the last two decades. Over the next two years, GSA plans to finally turn its talk into action. The agency said yesterday it plans to consolidate its 24 schedules into one big schedule by 2020. Federal News Network's Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what this means for agencies and vendors.

For 120,000 users of the Defense Information Systems Agency's unclassified mobile device service, email is about to get a lot easier and more personal. DISA plans to let uniformed and civilian employees using the Defense Mobility Unclassified Capability access their native or non-DISA enterprise email addresses from their mobile phones. This means DISA is connecting to Army.mil or Navy.mil email accounts and providing full services. Jake Marcellus, DISA's mobility portfolio manager, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about this and several other changes on tap from DISA to improve mobile computing.

Agencies may finally be able to answer the question that's eluded financial managers for years: How many of their improper payments are actually fraud? The CFO Council and the Treasury Department have teamed up to provide agencies with a roadmap to get to that often difficult calculation. Tammie Johnson, program and management analyst at the Bureau of Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department and Linda Miller, director at Grant Thornton, tell Executive Editor Jason Miller about the new anti-fraud playbook released last week on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

This week on Your Turn,  host Mike Causey will be joined by Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko who brings us up to speed on what has to happen for Congress to approve a 1.9 percent January pay raise for most white collar feds in 2019. Executive Editor Jason Miller also joins to show to discuss Trump administration plans to "re-skill" and "up-skill" what it sees as an aging, tech-challenged workforce and what it might mean for you, your job and your boss.

The Health and Human Services Department is taking a page out of the playbook of major retailers thanks to blockchain. The new system gives contracting officers visibility into the entire department's acquisition function. One executive compared it to a price matching program. Federal News Radio's David Thornton spoke with Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Information Security Oversight Office's latest annual report to Congress is like none that have become before. The ISOO, which resides in the National Archives and Records Administration, is telling lawmaker how to fix the classification and declassification processes across government instead of just explaining the problem. Mark Bradley, director of the Information Security Oversight Office, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about why the security classification system needs a healthy dose of IT modernization.

There are two new developments this morning that will add fuel to the debate over the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the federal workforce. First, the Agriculture Department plans to relocate two offices and several hundred employees from the Washington, D.C. metro area. And second, a federal union has said the Veterans Affairs Department has created "chaos" over its implementation of recent executive orders. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller and reporter Nicole Ogrysko are following the stories and joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.

The Treasury Department issued a new 10-year vision for federal financial management focused on making improvements across four broad areas. At the heart of many of those improvements will be technology changes and offerings from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Kim McCoy, the commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin, about the 10-year vision and how it will transform the role of the federal CFO.

The Treasury Department issued a new 10-year vision for federal financial management focused on making improvements across four broad areas. At the heart of many of those improvements will be technology changes and offerings from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Kim McCoy is the commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department. She told Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the 10-year vision and how it will transform the role of the federal CFO.

The Agriculture Department kicked off its much-anticipated phase II of the Centers of Excellence initiative by releasing five solicitations earlier this week. It's a variety of services designed to modernize the agency and help it give better service. But vendors will have to act fast, as USDA and the General Services Administration want responses by Aug. 10. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller got a hold of the solicitations and shared them on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of government contractors are hopeful that starting June 29 the System for Award Management portal finally will be fixed. That's the day the General Services Administration says the SAM.gov site will implement a new way for vendors to log in, change their information, renew their entries or enter data for the first time. It also will reduce the nearly 3-month-old requirement to send notarized paper letters to make changes or apply for registration to do business with the government. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why GSA hopes the changes coming to SAM.gov will better protect vendors and agencies from fraud. He discuss in on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The White House's latest attempt to give agency chief information officers a bigger seat at the table is filled with many of the same wants, desires and hopes that previous efforts have had over the last 22 years. So is President Donald Trump's executive order from May 15 really going to make progress where the Clinger-Cohen Act, FITARA and many other policies have struggled? Can the EO breathe life into stagnant CIO authorities like the administration claims? In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller asked six former federal IT executives with more than 50 years of experience these questions. He joins me now to discuss what they said.

John Sherman, the Intelligence Community’s chief information officer, wanted to tamp down any rumors about why the IC signed a deal to bring Microsoft’s cloud into the mix. He tells it all to Executive Editor Jason Miller on Ask the CIO.

The Trump administration has launched a three-pronged overhaul of civil service protections. President Donald Trump signed three executive orders on Friday. One would make it easier to fire poor performing federal employees. Another would reduce workers' use of official time. Federal News Radio's Jory Heckman sat down with Executive Editor Jason Miller with more about the executive orders on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Congress and the White House continue to make the big splashes to help mitigate threats to the supply chains. The banning of Chinese companies and possible executive orders are all on the horizon. But if an agency really wants to shore up its technology hardware and software, then it should look no further than their local contracting officer. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why supply chain security will only work if it comes from the acquisition experts. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Environmental Protection Agency is taking the long view on how it serves its employees, state and local governments and businesses. Its customer experience council is seeking to improve the entire interaction with stakeholders from first contact to final resolution. It's starting with its own internal technology services and eventually moving to the private sector. For its effort EPA won one of the inaugural Citizen Champions of Change awards, handed out earlier this week in Washington. Jeff Wells is EPA's director of office of customer advocacy, policy and portfolio management and its chief customer experience officer for Office of Environmental Information. Cory Wagner is the associate director of customer advocacy and communications division and Dawn Banks is the deputy chief customer experience officer. They tell Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the changes the council is bringing across EPA.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been trying to solve contract duplication for almost a decade. But having had only limited success, OFPP is now trying a new approach. The administration is trying to use category management and its little sister .-- best-in-class contracts -- to shrink the list of vehicles for technology, professional services, transportation and logistics and seven other categories where the number of contracts has grown like kudzu. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller has exclusive details on new strategies and goals for category management. He shares that on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The U.S. Transportation Command brought in the U.S Digital Service after its Defense Personnel Property System suffered a two-week outage. Executive Editor Jason Miller has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

When the General Services Administration finalized a major policy change to the multiple award schedules program in January, industry and agency customers alike were excited. Little did they know, actually adding order level materials or other direct costs to the IT schedule or professional services schedule was still months away. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why GSA hopes to have these new rules in place for the busy fourth quarter buying season.

As the IRS enters another tax season, the agency is looking across government to find criminals who use agency data to file fraudulent tax returns. Federal News Radio's Jory Heckman told Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about some the steps the IRS is taking.

With all the challenges of moving to shared services agencies face, the Treasury Department has one of the biggest success stories. The Invoice Processing Platform is demonstrating both the benefits and savings envisioned by the Trump administration and its predecessors. Ronda Kent, the assistant commissioner for Payment Management at the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about why both agencies and vendors benefit from centralized management of federal invoices. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with an update.

For the last 18 years, the Veterans Affairs Department has flunked its cybersecurity examine. The agency's inspector general, for 18 years, has found cybersecurity as a material weakness. Despite nearly two decades of failure, the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter for VA. In his weekly feature the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin why VA looks to have finally turned the corner in protecting veterans data and its systems.

There are two kinds of hackers trying to penetrate federal networks. The bad guys who are responsible for a majority of the more than 33,000 incidents agencies face each year, and then there are the White Hat hackers from the Homeland Security Department. They are doing the dirty work to make federal networks more secure. Rob Karas is the director of the National Cybersecurity Assessments and Technical Services team or N-CATS in the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center. Don Benack is the Cybersecurity Assurance Program Manager for N-CATS. They tell Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how the office is helping agencies find the weak spots in their networks.

For decades, federal human resources systems were like the Frankenstein monster's disparate pieces and parts pulled together to create a working model. Hook up the electrodes, yell "It's alive" and hope for the best. But that's changing under a new effort from the Unified Shared Services Management Office led by the Office of Personnel Management. That's the big topic in the weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, from Executive Editor Jason Miller. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.

Across the government, the number of bid and contract award protests dropped last year. But that doesn't mean agencies with the must have contracts are finding easy going. A case in point: The General Services Administration. Its next and large IT services contract is on hold because of protests. Executive Editor Jason Miller is following the story and shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

It's been a year since the Office of Federal Procurement Policy released and accepted comments on its draft circular concerning category management. With almost no activity on that circular over the past year, could OFPP be taking a less permanent way to further this approach to buying. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller's got an exclusive look at a new draft memo focused on demand management and best-in-class contracts. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

As House and Senate conferees close in on agreement on the 2018 National Defense Authorization bill, the controversial Amazon provision remains in play. It seems likely the final version will look a lot different than the current one. Senators are interested in pruning the language in the final NDAA. In his weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about how the push to open up online marketplaces may change. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Kaspersky Lab may be getting all the attention on Capitol Hill and from the Homeland Security Department for its alleged connection to the Russian government, but cyber experts warn House lawmakers that any cyber tool or service similar to what Kaspersky Lab offers puts agencies at risk. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why Kaspersky Lab may just be the tip of the cyber iceberg.

The government is trying to build a single sign-on identity management capability for federal services. This is the fourth attempt. But it seems off to a better start than the first three tries. The General Services Administration launched the Login.gov platform in April. Five agencies are already testing it. The system saw a spike in user accounts in this month. Joel Minton, the director of the Login.gov platform run by GSA's 18F group, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about how 18F is hoping to drive privacy, security and usability enough to give citizens confidence in using federal services on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The progress the cloud security program known as FedRAMP has made over the last few years to lower costs and speed approvals may be at risk. The reason has to do with new security controls in the latest revision of NIST special publication 800-53. In his weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes why the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program could be in jeopardy. He shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Software giant Oracle has turned what usually are bland, run-of-the-mill comments on a draft federal policy into an indictment of the IT modernization efforts over the last nine years. Oracle unloaded on nearly everything the Obama administration tried to do to modernize federal IT, including digital services, open source and agile. In his weekly feature the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller combed through all 90-plus comments and found Oracles and others to be more biting than usual. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Office of Personnel Management hires a new chief information officer and immediately gives him a big modernization project. OPM released a request for information to industry asking for feedback on how to bring the electronic personnel file into the modern technology era. In his weekly features, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller breaks the news on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about OPM's new IT chief as well as digs deep into the request for information.

The Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data is a single authoritative source of relevant data for use by local, state, federal, tribal, private sector, and community partners. It serves as a hub to aggregate and disseminate open data to support the mapping activities for hurricane response and recovery. Tod Dabolt is the geospatial information officer in the Office of the CIO for the Department of the Interior. He tells Executive Editor Jason Miller on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about why this geospatial effort is making information sharing easier, better and faster than ever before.

What's come to be known as the Amazon provision in the House version of the 2018 Defense authorization bill is at the center of growing concerns about the future of federal procurement. Both industry and federal agencies will be paying close attention over the next few weeks as House and Senate members go to conference to work out their differences in the authorization bill. This Amazon provision promotes the use of online commercial marketplaces for federal procurement.It is not in the Senate's version of the bill. In his weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why this language is causing heartburn in the acquisition community. He discusses it on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

If the departments of State, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development are any indication, federal technology offices are in store for major shakeups over the next year. The shakeups are coming from the Trump administrations mandated reform plans. Details of the changes are still incomplete, but the trend is clear. Agencies want to reduce the back-office duplication of both people and services and centralize the oversight of these functions. In his weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about why federal chief information officers are at the center of this reorg storm. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

A thaw in government-industry collaboration for acquisitions has never quite materialized. More than six years since the first so-called mythbusters memo from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the freeze at many agencies remains as deep as permafrost. But there are signs that the sheet of ice is starting to crack. In his weekly Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about reasons for hope that vendors and federal acquisition people can work together a little more effectively.

The Homeland Security Department is trying to alleviate some of the growing concerns about where in the world commercial cybersecurity products are developed. DHS is adding more rigor to a governmentwide cybersecurity initiative around vendor supply chains. Kevin Cox, program manager of the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) program at DHS, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about the new CDM supply chain risk management plan on Federal Drive with Tom Temin and what agencies should keep in mind as they are buying cybersecurity products and services.

In his weekly feature, the Reporters Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about the steps the Army is taking to have the right people to protect its networks and data. He shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Defense Department has 15 different regulations for the Freedom of Information Act. It has 21 assorted rules for privacy. That's just a small sample of why the White House ordered agencies to reduce and reform regulations with a goal of getting rid of two for every new one they write. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how DoD is taking on this huge task of getting rid of regulations, some of which go back to its War Department days.

Allegations about Kaspersky Lab and its connections to the Russian government have brought the spotlight on the federal IT supply chain over the last couple of months. But the latest issue is really just part of a long-term effort to better secure the federal technology agencies are buying. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about how the federal supply chain risk management effort is coming together across several initiatives. He discusses it on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

For the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the effort to restructure itself is no exercise in workforce reduction. HUD political appointees say they understand the real impact on morale moving senior executives or offering buyouts could have. David Eagles, chief operating officer of HUD, tells Executive Editor Jason Miller in an exclusive interview that the department has spent a lot of time trying to mitigate concerns around personnel changes.