The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

A new software vulnerability sent cybersecurity professionals scrambling over the past week. Discovered by cyber firms with the assistance of frontier AI models, the flaws in the PHP scripting language affected roughly 70% of all websites on the internet. Agencies had until Thursday to patch the PHP bugs. For more on the situation and what comes next, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joins me.
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Industry and legal experts are urging the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to set governmentwide rules around federal agencies’ use of artificial intelligence in federal procurement. They say the ongoing Federal Acquisition Regulation overhaul is an opportunity for the council to address the use of those tools in proposal evaluation, price analysis and contract file documentation. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has more.
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Year-to-date returns remained strong even after a more uneven third quarter for some TSP funds. Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with Financial planner Arthur Stein to review the latest results and explain why investor behavior during good markets often determines outcomes during bad ones.
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There are more cybersecurity challenges than any organization can realistically pursue at once. A new framework from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute identifies seven areas that its researchers believe warrant sustained attention because of their potential impact on future national-security missions. Greg Touhill, director of the institute's CERT Division, is here to explain how that framework can help leaders decide where to place their time, attention and research dollars.
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Doctors rely on MRI scans to make important treatment decisions, but those images are only as reliable as the measurements behind them. Dr. Kathryn Keenan of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed tools and methods that improve the accuracy and consistency of MRI results. She's also a recipient of the 2026 Arthur S. Flemming Award.
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