The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

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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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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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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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
The people earning STEM Ph.D.s aren't ending up where doctoral education was originally built to send them
The federal government is asking universities and laboratories to make more decisions about biological research risks before Washington gets involved
NASA's newest space telescope wasn't built to zoom in on a single mystery. It was built to show astronomers more of the universe at once
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The long journey to establish a single sign-on capability for federal services has taken a big step forward. The Office of Management and Budget is mandating that agencies transition to the login.gov platform for many public facing websites over the next two years. Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller joins me now with more on OMB's latest memo.
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