The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Natural disasters at military installations have caused billions of dollars in damage over the past decade, but the Defense Department began tracking those costs just recently. That data, however, remains incomplete and at times inaccurate. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis spoke with Kristy Williams, director of defense capabilities and management at the Government Accountability Office, about the Pentagon’s efforts to improve natural disaster cost tracking.
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The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for the past 10 months is out. Madhu Gottu-mukkala was transferred to another position at the Department of Homeland Security last week. His departure comes amid deep uncertainty at the cyber defense agency. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joins me.
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Congress is busy as ever. Hearings, the State of the Union, potentially major legislation, and oh yea, the Department of Homeland Security is still not funded. I got an update on what is top of mind on Capitol Hill right now from Loren Duggan, Deputy News Director for Bloomberg Government.
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Behind every hearing, bill, and negotiation are staff whose careers have never been consistently tracked. A new dataset brings order to that picture and gives Congress and the public a clearer sense of its workforce. The architect of the HillClimbers Index is Omar Awan, and he joins me now to show how this new visibility can guide decisions on staff size, compensation, and day‑to‑day operations.
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According to the OIG, EPA regions underreported improper and unknown payments in the SRF program by tens of millions of dollars, driven by documentation gaps and incomplete reporting. The findings point to weaknesses in the agency’s largest funding stream and the controls meant to protect it. We walk through the implications with Devon Padula from the EPA Office of Inspector General.
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