On this edition of Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose, sponsored by Cohesity. We explore key advancements in the Department of Defense’s Zero Trust strategy and AI compliance efforts. Les Call, Director of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office at the DoD, explains the new assessment tools and processes designed to make Zero Trust implementation more efficient. He outlines the shift from traditional Red Team assessments to automated, repeatable processes aimed at meeting the Pentagon’s 2027 ...
On this edition of Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose, sponsored by the Women’s Center, we dive into key themes in healthcare data innovation and workforce resilience. Jesus Caban, Chief Data Scientist at the Program Executive Office for Defense Healthcare Management Systems (PEO DHMS), discusses the evolution of healthcare data sharing in the Department of Defense. He breaks down the challenges of normalizing data and explains how the DoD is working to standardize data across military health sy...
On this edition of Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose, we tackle three pressing issues shaping the future of government technology, policy, and data security. James Burd, Chief Privacy Officer at CISA, explains how privacy and cybersecurity are now inextricably linked. Discover why it’s no longer possible to protect one without the other, and what agencies are doing to manage these intertwined risks. As the State Department approaches the three-year mark of its modernization plan, Deputy Secreta...
On this edition of Fed Gov Today with Francis Rose, sponsored by Maximus, we explore the evolving cyber threat landscape from the FBI's perspective, strategies for small businesses to team up with larger government contractors, and a radically different approach to IT modernization. The FBI’s Internet Crime Report reveals over 880,000 cybercrime complaints in 2023, with losses exceeding $12.5 billion. Deputy Director of the FBI, Paul Abate, shares insights from the Billington Cybersecurity Su...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Technology Strategy includes five key initiatives. One of them is to “build artificial intelligence, cloud and high performance computing into [the] GEOINT mainstream.” On today’s show, you’ll meet three leaders who are executing that part of the NGA strategy. Mark Munsell is Director of Data and Digital Innovation at NGA, and a recent guest on the Fed Gov Today TV show, “AI In Depth.” Rachael Martin is Maven program lead at NGA, and Anna Rubinste...
This Fed Gov Today program is sponsored by Leidos.The Labor Department has a new acting Chief Information Officer. Gundeep Ahluwalia, the outgoing Labor CIO, was on Fed Gov Today TV this week, talking about his time at the agency. Lou Charlier is the Acting CIO at Labor. He tells you how the agency is approaching AI, and its zero trust cybersecurity efforts.The White House’s AI.gov features use cases for artificial intelligence all across government. The stories on the site detail how agencie...
The Thrift Savings Plan has seven recommendations from the Government Accountability Office about its two-year old record keeping system. Jennifer Franks of GAO told you about them on a recent edition of the Fed Gov Today podcast. Kim Weaver, Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, tells you how the TSP is responding now, and has already responded, to the recommendations GAO made, and to the needs of its participants.The newest Fed Gov Today T-V special...
Twelve recommendations to strengthen the inspector general community are part of a new book from the former IG at the Departments of Justice and Defense. Glenn Fine was Inspector General at Justice from 2000 to 2011, and the acting IG at DoD from 2016 to 2020. His book is titled “Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government.” In this conversation, he'll tell you what's behind those recommendations, and what new IGs in government should know about the job ...
The Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration has a unique opportunity to reshape itself, and that reshaping could happen through five ideas. That’s according to Larry Allen, President of Allen Federal Business Partners. He’s writing about those five ideas in his “Week Ahead” newsletter, and he explains his five ideas on today’s show.More than 35,000 professionals inside the Defense Department make up the pricing and contracting workforce. The composition of that work...
This podcast is sponsored by Presidio Federal and IBM.New guidance to overhaul FedRAMP is out from the Office of Management and Budget. OMB Director Shalanda Young writes the guidance “is responsive to developments in Federal cybersecurity and substantial changes to the commercial cloud marketplace that have occurred since the program was established.” One of the changes Director Young refers to there is the emergence of the multi-cloud model. Beau Houser, Chief Information Security Officer a...
Presented by Booz AllenEvan Carey, Acting Director at the National Artificial Intelligence Institute, Department of Veterans Affairs discusses the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its efforts to integrate AI into its operations to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of medical documentation and community care records. The VA is focusing on using AI to streamline the creation of documentation, particularly for encounters with veterans, and to manage the complex and often voluminous...
The Defense Department’s new Fulcrum IT Advancement Strategy includes four lines of effort. One of them is focused on customer experience. Savan Kong is Senior Advisor in the User Experience Portfolio Management Office in the Office of the CIO at DoD. At TechNet Cyber recently, he tells me his office is driving what customer experience looks like across the department.One of the jobs of the Defense Department’s Joint Forces Headquarters DoD Information Network is what it calls “organizing the...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT inside the Department of Health and Human Services has prepared the draft “2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan”. At the ACT-IAC Health Innovation Summit recently, Peter Karras, Deputy Director for the Strategic Planning and Coordination Division at ONC, tells me the strategy is both a progression and an evolution.ACT-IAC Vision 2030: the Federal Tech Revolution
No matter who wins the presidential election this November, a new round of political appointees is likely to make its way to Capitol Hill to seek the approval of the Senate. Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro (USMC ret.) will probably be involved in helping at least some of them prepare for confirmation. Arnold’s new book, "If Confirmed: An Insider’s View of the National Security Confirmation Process," is exactly what the title says it is. Arnold’s guided thousands of appointees through the confirmation...
The new Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers Council just passed the six-month mark of its existence. The White House Executive Order on AI specifies that every agency should designate a Chief AI Officer. Two leaders who’ve led AI efforts at agencies are writing about what agencies should look for in those CAIOs. Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan (USAF ret.) was the first Director of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team (Project Maven) and the first Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligen...
The Thrift Savings Plan is on a new glidepath. That path should help its members… that are investing for the long term. Kim Weaver, Director of External Affairs at the TSP, tells what the path is, and how it will work.The Central Intelligence Agency is building a chatbot to help its people verify open-source information quickly. The agency’s working with other members of the intelligence community to create the bot. On the newest Fed Gov Today TV, I asked Randy Nixon, Director of the Open Sou...
This Fed Gov Today podcast is sponsored by Microsoft.Today’s show is “Innovating on the Frontlines: Securing the Future with AI and Cybersecurity.” The evolving intersection of security and AI is the focus today. Leaders from the Department of Homeland Security, Microsoft, and the Department of Defense will tell you where their organizations are, and where they’re going on security and AI; and how they’ll get there. DHS has several pilot programs in place now to leverage generative AI. I...
This Fed Gov Today podcast is sponsored by Verizon.Today’s show is titled “Bridging Horizons: Innovating Customer Experience in Federal Civilian Services. The President’s Management Agenda and a series of executive orders have pushed agencies to transform the way they deal with agency customers. Leaders from FDA, VA, and Verizon dig into the challenges, opportunities, and technological innovations shaping the future of citizen service.The Food and Drug Administration is ready to take a leap… ...
NASA has a new technology leader to work in its digital transformation. Patrick Newbold is about five months into his tenure there, after joining the agency from the Social Security Administration. At the ACT-IAC Emerging Tech and Innovation Conference recently, he tells me digital transformation is about more than technology.The Defense Department is in year two of its latest Small Business Strategy. That strategy includes three objectives. The first one is unifying small-business related ac...
All the military services, and pretty much the whole federal government, says they’re looking for innovative solutions. The hang-up can be what “innovation” actually means to each organization. Lt. Col. David Brewer (USAF) is Total Force Integration Liaison in the Disruptive Technology Division at Air Force Futures Center 3 Integration and Innovation. At the Emerging Tech and Innovation Conference, he tells me why innovation isn’t a noun, and why he thinks people are using the term incorrectl...