The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Military families and their quality of life are the backbone of our nation's military readiness. Blue Star Families, an advocate for military families, surveys that community annually to determine both how well they're doing and how likely they are to continue their service. Here with their latest data is Blue Star Families' Chief Impact Officer, Dr. Lindsay Knight.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

15 years ago, the U.S. military used the Rapid Equipping Force to quickly meet the needs of warfighting units in Afghanistan. Today, the Ukraine military is using a similar process to generate rapid innovation in tactics and equipment. Could the U.S. do it again if a conflict started on short notice? Joining me with insights on what it takes to organize for effectiveness is the co-founder and CEO of BMNT and former head of the REF, Pete Newell.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI promises to take over the piles of paperwork that govern the federal acquisition process. But in a world that is built around compliance, many are hesitant to trust that AI can follow all of the rules. Joining me with ideas on how to bridge that trust gap is the Founder and CEO of Rohirrim, Steve Aberle.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal agencies are setting a higher performance bar when delivering services to the public. The 21st Century integrated digital experience. Act of 2018 set a blueprint for more modern digital first customer experience in government. But agencies didn't start achieving those goals until the COVID 19 pandemic shuttered many agency offices, and now new legislation is looking to build on those goals as part of Federal News Network's 25th anniversary special report Federal News Network's Jory Heckman joins me with more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Every presidential transition introduces uncertainty in investment markets. This time, the volatility generated by policy changes and DOGE has been even more dramatic. Here with insight into what those changes mean for the industries that work most closely with government is the managing director in the Defense and Government Group at Raymond James, Sam Maness.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The latest edition of the Congressional Innovation Scorecard (Edition 2), grades every member of Congress on how strongly they champion American inventors, creators, and the innovation economy. It's created by the Council for Innovation Promotion, or C4IP. For the results, we welcome one of the contributors. David Kappos is a David Kappos is a partner at Cravath, Swaine, & Moore and Co-Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property practice. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton Important investment trends in the defense and government sector A gauge of how well members of congress are creating a good environment for innovation Applying best practices to speed Army fielding of new artillery and missile systemsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Federal courts are hampering the Trump administration's plans to shrink the federal workforce and reshape agencies, but it would have a lot more authority to proceed with these plans under a Senate committee's proposal, changes under consideration by members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would allow the administration to move forward with reorganizations with minimal interference from Congress or the courts. Federal News Network's Jory Heckman has more and 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 Trump administration is pumping the brakes on government wide software security requirements instead, President Donald Trump's new cybersecurity executive order calls for an industry consortium to study implementation of secure software development practices for more on these changes, Federal News Network's Justin Doubleday joins me.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It can take over 10 years to bring a new ground system to life, at a time when our adversaries' development cycle is 18 months or less. A new report from GAO suggest best practices the Army could apply now to dramatically shorten its development cycle for these critical weapons. Here with more on the recommendations in a new report from GAO is Director of the Contracting and National Security Acquisitions team, Mona Sehgal.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.