The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The Department of the Navy is conducting a departmentwide organizational review that could lead to significant restructuring of its civilian workforce and reductions in civilian personnel. The review is part of a broader Defense Department effort to reshape its civilian workforce and align personnel and resources with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s priorities under the National Defense Strategy. Federal News Network’s Anastasia Obis has more.
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Top Department of Homeland Security officials could be deposed in a lawsuit challenging staff cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The case centers on whether DHS is allowed to enact major workforce reductions at FEMA. For more, Federal News Network’s Justin Doubleday joins me.
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Across hundreds of military communities, the housing system is finally confronting aging infrastructure and the reliability gaps that affect daily life for families. The work happening now is a real‑world test of how policy decisions and oversight translate into improvements at scale. We get an inside look at how those choices are made and measured from Brian Stann, CEO of Hunt Military Communities.
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Before an AI agent can support a mission, teams need to know how it handles uncertainty, manipulation, and unexpected inputs. That requires sandboxes built for evaluation rather than production. We talk through what that entails with AI red‑team specialist Bri Frost, Director of Product Management at Cloud Range.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
A massive reinvestment push is reshaping military housing, aiming to fix the hazards families have lived with for years
AI systems are only as safe as the environments where they’re trained and tested — a point now hitting home across DoD and the federal government
With CFPB weakened, states are fighting to regain the data and support they need to protect consumers
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