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Fresh from their annual baseball game, members of Congress are back at work on the Hill. Lots of activity centers on the National Defense Authorization Bill, which has, for starters, passed the House. And, strangely, there's been some movement on the slow-moving, but never-ending topic, surrounding a new FBI headquarters. For this week's outlook, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin talked with WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.
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Lots of people, even those should know better, often misconstrue the fundamental purpose of the U.S. military. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest has written a provocative essay on the subject of deterrence, at a time when not much in the world seems deterred. Melanie W. Sisson is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated something it has been pointing out for years: The government wastes billions and billions of dollars on duplicative and overlapping activities. Federal Drive Host Tom Temin's guest says the GAO overlooked a crucial way to stop the waste, namely shared services. Steve Goodrich in the Chairman of the Shared Services Leadership Coalition.
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On this episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:

Why the government should use more shared services to reduce costs.

A common assumption about the military's main purpose is not quite accurate.

The House passed its Defense authorization bill, but there's a long way to go.


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From virtual desktops to email and collaboration, the Navy has been leaning heavily on cloud services to speed up its digital modernization efforts. But those efforts have come with a big question: Will any of this work aboard ships? It turns out the answer is yes.
In a pilot project, the Navy has shown it’s possible to consistently move several terabytes of data each day between the cloud and thousands of users onboard an aircraft carrier every single day, an advance officials say is a “game ch
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development is looking for a new chief information officer. HUD is now one of five major agencies looking for a new technology leader.
But unlike the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, and the Small Business Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HUD CIO didn’t actually leave the agency to create the job opening.
Beth Niblock, who has been CIO since July 2021, moved to a new position as senior advisor for disaster management. The reason for the opening is purely political. HUD decided to move the CIO’s position back to a career one from a political one.
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