The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

Moving technology into government faster doesn't eliminate the need for accountability. A recent Court of Federal Claims decision kept alive a protest over a Navy software procurement and drew an important distinction between evaluating a proposal and determining whether a bidder may have misrepresented its qualifications. Federal contracting attorney Zach Prince joins me with lessons contractors should take from the case.
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For decades, technology transfer usually meant moving inventions out of government laboratories and into the marketplace. Now some small technology companies are heading in the opposite direction, bringing developed technologies to federal labs for testing and validation. That's one of the shifts David Lee and Paige George of the Federal Labs Consortium are watching, and one they hope to build on. They join me now to discuss that change and their upcoming industry forum.
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The federal government is under pressure to move capabilities into the field faster. One result is a growing willingness to bring industry, researchers and technology providers into the acquisition process earlier. In this segment of Contractors to Watch, sponsored by JP Morgan, Jeff Stevens, president of ENSCO, explains how companies are finding success with this approach.
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In national security technology, some of the most important ideas are now arriving at federal labs from outside government
Government agencies are bringing technology companies into the problem-solving process a lot earlier
Winning a government contract may not end scrutiny of what a bidder claimed in its proposal
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Agencies’ spending on paid administrative leave surged sixfold last year. Those costs were largely due to the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. But data limitations make it impossible to tell exactly how much was spent, or how much was potentially saved, by the DRP.
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