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GovExec Daily: How an RFI Can Further Biden Diversity Goals

Stan Soloway joins the podcast to discuss how a recent request for information is being used as a crowd-sourcing tool for policy solutions around equity goals.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

What Is Pete Buttigieg Doing?

The secretary of transportation is on the road, talking infrastructure with anyone who will listen.

  • Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic

Contracting Community Welcomes Biden’s Budget Proposal

Groups see opportunities with the administration's cybersecurity, climate change and workforce innovation priorities.

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Seeks to Use Procurement ‘Power’ to Close Racial Wealth Gap

The administration intends to double the share of contracts going to small, disadvantaged businesses.

  • Courtney Bublé

Report: Requirement for Federal Contractors to Pay $15 Minimum Wage Will Have ‘Minor’ Impact on Government Spending

Agencies still should be proactive in planning for implementation, consultancy says.

  • Courtney Bublé

How Pentagon Cash Helped Save Small Defense Companies During the Pandemic

Business leaders are now calling on defense officials and lawmakers to keep a policy that pays contractors more money up front.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

Diversity RFI Opens the Door to Rethinking How Government Reaches Its Goals

The administration is using a recent request for information as a crowd-sourcing tool for policy solutions around equity goals.

  • Stan Soloway

Will COVID Vaccines Be Required for Federal Contractors, and How Would a Mandate Be Enforced? 

Increased vaccination rates and more people returning to the workplace raise these questions. 

  • Courtney Bublé

It’s Official: New Air Force Ones Will Be Delivered Late

“Definitely a setback” said Lt. Gen. Duke Richardson, the U.S. Air Force’s deputy weapons buyer, as Boeing legal battle delays production.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

What the Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Pay a $15 Minimum Wage Will Mean 

The upcoming rulemaking process should illuminate more. 

  • Courtney Bublé

GovExec Daily: The Major Changes In Federal Digital Operations and Acquisition

Stan Soloway joins the podcast to discuss President Joe Biden's appointments and how they will attempt to modernize government.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Biden Names First ‘Made in America’ Office Director

Celeste Drake, a trade expert with ties to organized labor, was hailed as an “outstanding” choice, said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Signs Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Pay a $15 Minimum Wage

White House says these employees are “critical” to the federal government’s operations. 

  • Courtney Bublé
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Bipartisan Lawmakers Launch Caucus to Simplify and Strengthen Federal Construction Procurement 

“Our federal contractors need members of Congress to promote sensible reforms,” said the co-chairs.

  • Courtney Bublé

Biden Appointments Signal Major Changes In Digital Operations and Acquisition

Early signs suggest federal agencies may be on the cusp of a significant leap forward.

  • Stan Soloway

GovExec Daily: Priorities and the Pentagon Budget

The Project on Government Oversight's Mandy Smithberger joins the podcast to discuss the money allocated to Defense Department and connected programs.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

GovExec Daily: The Future of Work After the Pandemic

POGO's Danielle Brian, Brookings' Elaine Kamarck and the Florida Center for Cybersecurity's Ron Sanders join the show to discuss post-pandemic governance.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler

Biden Budget Seeks to Use Procurement to Battle the Climate Crisis, Advance Equity and Expand Small Businesses Opportunities

The budget preview furthers campaign goals and early executive orders. 

  • Courtney Bublé

Raytheon Giving Employees Bonuses for Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

The company is not requiring employees to get the shots, but some facilities could be off-limits to the unvaccinated.

  • Marcus Weisgerber

Biden Wants Corporations to Pay for His $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan

The corporate tax was created on the principle that people and companies should be taxed based on what they receive in benefits – and US corporations have received an awful lot.

  • Stephanie Leiser, The Conversation

GovExec Daily: Which Agencies Are Vaccinating Contractors?

Courtney Bublé joins the podcast to discuss her story on the different departments inoculating contractors with whom they work.

  • Ross Gianfortune and Adam Butler