The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Pentagon wants to speed up hiring for civilian jobs, saying long delays can hurt military readiness. Defense official Michael Cogar recently gave an update on the changes they've made to hiring rules, and how DoD is using artificial intelligence to help fill jobs faster. Federal News Network’s Rachel Cohen listened to the speech. She joins me now to explain what the Pentagon is doing.
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The Defense Cyber Crime Center is seeing a record number of companies reporting insider threats. The FBI warned last week about North Korean schemes to fund its regime through remote IT work for U.S. companies. These are just two recent examples of the growing threats contractors and federal employees are facing from foreign countries. For more on why these insider threats are increasing and what agencies can do about it, Federal News Network’s Jason Miller joins me now.
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At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the early workforce reductions drew most of the attention. A new inspector general review finds some of the longest-lasting effects came from internal stop-work orders and contract actions that disrupted the bureau's operations and contract support. Joining me with the findings are Terese Blanchard and Michael Zeitler, managers in the Office of Inspector General for the Federal Reserve Board and CFPB.
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The federal judiciary has policies intended to control costs and manage its real estate footprint. But a new GAO review found it does not routinely collect utilization data for its administrative space, raising a basic management question: how do you know what space you need if you don't know how much of your existing space is being used? Joining me now is David Marroni, director of physical infrastructure at the Government Accountability Office.
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The Trump administration's Golden Dome proposal has sparked visions of a nationwide shield against missile attack. But building an effective defense is as much a question of physics and affordability as technology. A new analysis argues the challenge is separating achievable defenses from concepts that become prohibitively expensive once they collide with real-world physics. Joining me now is Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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