The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Artificial intelligence is forcing agencies and industry to take a prioritized approach to software patching. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s new directive on patching is designed to have agencies focus on the highest risk cyber vulnerabilities and give them more time to focus on other important security practices. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joins me.
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Agencies have a few months left to survey their employees before the required end-of-year deadline. For most, it will be their first time distributing an employee engagement survey on their own. For some federal workforce experts, transitioning to agency-specific surveys is a welcome change. But questions remain about a tight timeline, limited resources and lack of experience. Here with more, Federal News Network’s Drew Friedman.
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For years, research institutions operated under relatively defined federal standards for reviewing high-risk biological research. A new government-wide policy shifts toward a broader risk-based approach that requires universities and laboratories to make more of those decisions themselves, with significant compliance consequences if they get them wrong. Here with a breakdown of where the rules are changing is Cara Baer, partner at Butler Snow.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope combines the image quality of Hubble with a field of view that's dramatically larger. That will allow scientists to map vast portions of the sky, search for distant planets, and study some of the biggest unanswered questions in astronomy. Federal News Network's Eric White gets more details from Matthew Bolcar, senior optical systems engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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The traditional Ph.D. model was built around academic research careers. As industry absorbs more advanced scientific talent, NSF is testing whether a different approach could better align training with opportunity. Here to walk through NSF's pilot program is Sr. Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director for Technology Innovation and Partnerships at the National Science Foundation.
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