The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Department of Agriculture is taking on a sweeping reorganization plan. But it’s not clear how or if USDA evaluated the impacts of that plan before it started. The Government Accountability Office says USDA declined multiple times to share what, if any, analysis it conducted on how the reorganization would affect staffing, customer service or mission. Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman gets more from GAO director of natural resources and environment, Steve Morris.
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Military families are committed to military service — Military Family Advisory Network’s first of its kind of research found that nearly 70 percent of people who are currently serving would recommend a military career to someone they care about. But the research also found that the biggest shortfalls in military family life are on the family side, and those challenges are impacting families’ willingness to recommend service.
For more, Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis spoke with Gabby L'Esperance, Military Family Advisory Network’s vice president of research and evaluation.
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A decade ago, Congress gave the Defense Department new authorities to use other transaction agreements – procurement vehicles that let the government move more quickly, but also set aside most of the usual rules involved in traditional contracts. Since then, one of the biggest questions has been…when, and under what circumstances, can a losing bidder challenge an OTA? Last week, the Court of Federal Claims issued a decision that may get us a little closer to the answer to some of those questions, ruling against the Navy in a multibillion dollar procurement for unmanned ships. To talk more about why the decision matters for understanding when OTA’s can and can’t be protested, we’re joined now by Zach Prince. He’s a partner at the law firm Hayes Boone.
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The Coast Guard works everywhere from command centers to cutters at sea. Keeping people connected and information moving across all of those environments takes technology that works when and where it's needed. here to share how the Coast Guard is using technology to reduce friction and create more minutes on mission is Lindsay Abbott, chief of the Coast Guard's Technical Readiness Transformation Office.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
We may be on the way to more clarity on when vendors can protest other transaction agreements
The Coast Guard measures success in minutes on mission. New technology investments are aimed at creating more of them
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