In Depth interviews – May 29

This is the In Depth show blog. Here you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.

Audio will be posted shortly.

Debra Sonderman and Mike Johnston — Interior Department

ERP systems have been one of the hardest type of systems to implement in the government, but Interior has managed to find success. Debra Sonderman, the agency’s senior procurement executive, and Mike Johnston, program director of the financial and business management system, joined In Depth with Francis Rose and Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller in studio to share the best practices, including the Three C’s of any program — contracting, communication and change management.

Tom Shoop — Editor-in-Chief, Government Executive

Roads, bridges and food pyramids are all a part of “big government” intervention. Shoop is writing about how people might criticize “big government” without knowing what that really means.

Peter Brookes — Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation

Fake parts in Defense Department weapons systems have become a flood, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The committee found 70 percent of the fakes are coming from China. Brookes is the former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific affairs.

Chris Mihm — Managing Director for Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office

Your agency will have to make decisions about getting smaller, somehow, if it hasn’t already. You may be closing locations, consolidating data centers, or more. The Government Accountability Office has developed a list of five key questions to ask when you’re getting smaller.

Frank Hoffman — Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

The Pentagon is trying to shape its future through a series of policies that detail elements of the broader strategy DoD laid out late in 2011. One of those is the Joint Operational Access Concept. The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted an event about the JOAC last week. Hoffman was part of the team that developed the JOAC.

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