ATARC Federal IT Newscast

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special guest Bonnie Evangelista, Tradewind Execution Lead, Department of Defense Chief Digital AI Office as they discuss the biggest impediments slowing acquisition teams today, how to break culture barriers in the acquisition space, and how to solve training gaps.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Amir Jerbi, Co-Founder of Aqua Security as they discuss the evolution of cloud-native security in the last 7 years, the concept of dev to cloud and how it differs from GitOps, the value of being cloud agnostic, an introduction to Trivy and Tracee, the concepts of pre-breach and post-breach security, the importance of Software Bill of Materials, the top challenges faced by customers today, the evolution of malicious actors and their tactics, and the role of technologies like GPT in augmenting security capabilities.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Terry Reinert, CEO, Fleet Defender as they explore the differences between offense and defense in the cyber world, key pieces of cyber warfare, the challenges of vulnerability research, the reality of hacking cars and planes, the challenges of protecting various types of platforms such as fighters and ships, and how AI and GPT will impact cybersecurity in both defense and offense.

Welcome back to another episode of the Modern Data Experience, where we embarked on a captivating conversation with Stacy Marcott, Deputy CFO of the Department of Homeland Security. Stacy shared with us how her work is streamlining innovative technology practices across the department, and what it looks like when data is effectively utilized–even when faced with the unknown. Stay tuned to hear more about the incorporation of AI into their data strategy, and the ways the DHS is continuing to build mechanisms that support data more efficiently.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest Vishal Amin, General Manager of Security Compliance Identity Management & Privacy at Microsoft Federal as they discuss Vishal's unique background, his journey from service member to security expert, how his diverse experiences have shaped his approach to cybersecurity, the delicate balance between security, compliance, identity management, and privacy, and how AI is poised to revolutionize the cybersecurity landscape.

On today’s episode of Doing Tech Better in Government, we are joined by Louis Koplin, Deputy CTO to the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer. Louis shared some insight on the new initiatives being implemented to create change within the defense space, like the Navy Capstone Design Concept. Stay tuned to hear more about what steps are being taken to inspire the department to modernize efficiently, and how they’re helping new systems to become part of its framework.

On this episode of Doing Tech Better in Government, we are joined by Josh Reiter, Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor for the US Navy–a role that allows him to take a hands-on approach to the talent management process within the department. Josh shares some gems about what kinds of models are used to make these assessments, the importance of putting a strong emphasis on care within the department, and why changing the culture around government service might be the key to attracting new resources. 

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest TJ Koury, CEO of Digital Arsenal.io as they discuss the pressing issue of space collision.

Join us for another episode of the ATARC Federal IT Newscast, where we are joined by Dovarius Peoples, CIO for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Dovarius shared some incredible insight on the nature of IT within the federal government, how they assess different models in order to properly strategize, and what kinds of vulnerabilities they face. Stay tuned to learn more about where the organization is heading in order to maintain a strong balance between providing secure resources and avoiding cyber defense threats.

On today’s episode of Doing Tech Better in Government, we sat down with Scott Simpson, Digital Transformation Lead for the Department of Homeland Security. Scott has played an impactful role in advising and ushering people into a new era of innovation through coaching and leadership, and shared with us some of the tools his team uses to achieve this. Listen in to learn more about how their work streamlines evaluation processes, and how important it is to make sure people are comfortable with these new methods of innovating so they can properly execute them without fear or discomfort.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with special guest Rob Vietmeyer, Chief Software Officer, Department of Defense as they discuss the evolution of cloud adoption in the DoD; from MilCloud to JWCC to OCONUS Cloud and Edge clouds, the importance of cloud parity and the adoption of key commercial capabilities in the DoD, and the adoption of DevSecOps and its significance.

On this episode of Mobile & Cyber, we are joined by Kevin Gallo, Director of Technical Account Management in the Office of Enterprise Technology Solutions at GSA. He spoke a bit about his role there and its focus on customer-driven results when providing technical expertise. Stay tuned to hear more about the ways the federal government is adopting new capabilities in order to support functions like cloud computing, and the impacts modernization has on cybersecurity.

On today’s episode of Keeping US Agencies Ahead, we are joined by Daniel Stoll, Information Systems Security Officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Daniel sat down with us to discuss the changing nature of cybersecurity as a result of remote and hybrid work models, and the policies that are put in place in order for agencies to adopt a Zero Trust architecture. Listen in to learn more about how his work with the DOI relies on modernization to provide users with the best outcomes, and how that model is constantly evolving.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time featuring Pritesh Patel, CEO of Ad Hoc Research ad they discuss critical topics surrounding digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and digital twins.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Dan Lorenc, CEO, ChainGuard as they discuss the challenges and struggles around software supply chain and take a deep dive on Dan's incredible contributions to the open source community with his projects like Minikube, Sigstore, Distroless and Wolfi.

Join this episode of In the Nic of time with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate, Upbound, as they discuss what is going to disrupt the Infrastructure as Code world. What the future looks like, what to pay attention to, and how to better understand a control plane.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time for an exciting Q & A from the audience.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Tobi Knaup, CEO and Co-Founder, D2IQ as they discuss Mesos’ move to Kubernetes, the future of Kubernetes and DevSecOps platforms and how AI/ML will disrupt that market.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Lisa Palmer, Chief AI Strategist, AI Leaders as they discuss Lias's recent study, which will include a deep dive into ChatGPT and other generative AI, looking at the risks and opportunities that come with it.

Tune in to hear Nina and Chris discuss the 11 Solving for X episodes in Season 1. They tie together recurring themes and try to discover whether we solved for X?

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Marshall Livingston, Head of Sales Engineering, Hack the Box, and Haris Pylarinos, CEO, Hack the Box as they look at the current education problems, the mix of self learning and hands on experience and the difference between one of those fancy certifications and actual true experience.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Jyoti Bansal, CEO, Harness and Traceable.AI as they talk about developer experience, how security plays into CI/CD, how Harness became the fastest CI capability on the planet.

On this episode of Mobile and Cyber, join us for a conversation with Kenneth Myers from the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Trusted Access Division of the Office of Governmentwide Policy. He discussed the changing landscape of cyber security, the renewed focus on federal identity, and the innovations being made in the world of cyber threat defense. Tune in to hear how he has been a leading force in the fight against cyber attacks, and the work he has been doing to combat its rapidly-changing variants.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Richard Bird, CSO, Traceable.ai as they discuss the implementation of the recent Zero trust President Executive Order from an API security standpoint and try to understand the value of API exploits for nation state actors.

Join this episode of  In the Nic of Time, with Robby Ann Carter, CEO of SASSI as they discuss the Cloud SRG, how Robby Ann helped us get the CNAP approved in DoD, and her current work on the Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) and data centric security.

Listen to a conversation with Dr. Kevin Marlowe, Director, IT Service Delivery Management at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Kiersten Patton, Performance Consultant, Dale Carnegie. Hear about how Dr. Marlowe's career history and how he came into his current role, challenges Dr. Marlowe faces in his organization, and hear what Dr. Marlowe thinks and sees about technology evolving over the next decade.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Mehran Farimani, CEO, RapidFort as they discuss what modern software attack surface is about, how to reduce it, what it takes to harden containers.

Don't miss this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest, Greg Touhill, Director, CERT as they discuss what changed since his time as the CIO of TRANSCOM, his take on the Chief Software Officer role, and the history behind the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Tune in for this episode of “Doing Tech Better in Government with Brian Fox and Special Guest Kate Stowe, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), United States Department of Defense (DoD)”! Hear insight into the scope of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), their role as an organization, and learn about how the DIU makes faster use of emerging commercial technologies within the DoD.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with special guest Zack Butcher, Head of Product, Tetrate. During this episode they will continue to debunk Zero Trust, look into Zack's work with NIST on the SP 800-204 series, and how to deploy a Service Mesh across a large organization and its legacy stack.

Don't miss this episode of Mobile and Cyber with Jim Kovach, Zimperium and Special Guest, Arielle Baine, Cybersecurity Advisor and State Coordinator (DE), CISA. Tune in and hear a introduction to CISA and the roles of the organization's State Coordinators. Learn about their mission, uniqueness, size, and scope of work. Hear their shared thoughts on the recent Cyber Grant program, and hear why critical infrastructure partners are vital for CISA.

Listen as they discuss how the DOE is adopting a zero-trust strategy and how it contributes to the agency's network and information. Gardy and Danielle will also cover IoT usage and development,  address how threats and risks are faced, and speak about how AI and machine learning could help support a zero-trust strategy!

Don't miss this episode of In the Nic of Time with Matthew Hodgson, CEO, Element. In this episode they will talk about what decentralized communication really means, what does it take to be decentralized and how it works when it comes to key management, device verification, data sovereignty, federation and more.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Dan Wilson, Co-Founder and CTO, Control Plane as they discuss the importance of cloud agnosticism, the challenges, the benefits and the costs.

Joinus for this episode of the ATARC Federal IT Newscast titled “Doing Tech Better in Government with Brian Fox and Special Guest Chris Crist, Chief of Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) at U.S. Transportation Command”, and hear from Chris how he was able grow his DevSecOps team from the ground up, and where he sees the future of his team going. Also, learn about the mission of US Transportation Command, what Chris is doing in his role currently, and what projects his organization is leading.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest, Jay Bonci, U.S Air Force and Space Force CTO as they discuss tackling complex problems including ICAM, Zero Trust, network segmentation, optimization and flattening.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest, Gary Barlet, CTO, Illumio as they discuss how the commercial sector is embracing zero trust and how governments are finally jumping on the ZTA wagon.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guests Ryan McLean and Andrew Crerar, TAK Product Center to hear them discuss their journey, how they are funded, their tech stack, the issues adopting Android and their accreditation. They also look at their numerous partnerships with other agencies like DHS and FYEY nations, their open source work, and what the future looks like with AI and ML.

Currently, federal agencies are planning to implement Zero Trust in alignment with the federal Zero Trust architecture strategy released by the Office of Management and Budget. A core principle of Zero Trust is comprehensive visibility, including devices, data and users, which aligns to CDM capabilities that have been implemented throughout agencies today.

Join this episode to hear from Shahid Qamar, Regional Sales Manager - Department of Homeland Security, Palo Alto Networks and Richard Grabowski, Program Manager (Acting), Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program (CDM), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Don't miss as we discuss how:

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest, Duncan Jones, Head of Cybersecurity, Quantinuum as they discuss how Quantum can bring good things to our nations and how it can be leveraged to generate next generation crypto keys.

Join this episode of Doing Tech Better in Government with Brian Fox and Special Guest, Graham Baggett, Chief, Interactive Update Systems Branch/DITD, U.S. Census Bureau as they sit down to discuss Mr. Baggett's journey through Federal IT, the technical and digital improvements happening at Census, changes in the next decennial, and their engagement with the American public.

Join this episode of The Year of Zero Trust with Jim Richberg as he sits down with special guest, Kenneth Myers, Director, Identity Assurance and Trusted Access Division, Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP), GSA, to discuss the following questions:

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Kyle Fox ,Chief Software Officer, Western Development Division, U.S. Air Force as they talk about the rise of Software Defined Weapons: what are they, can DevSecOps really be leveraged for jets, nuclear systems, and how it was to be the CSE for GBSD, the largest nuclear DAF program.

As one of the world's top cybersecurity experts, join Joe Saunders and Nicolas Chaillan as they cover a vast variety of topics including memory based exploits, Google's Project Zero, supply chain risk, open source adoption, 5G economic and security risks, and more!

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Rob Slaughter, CEO, Culture Executive Officer, Defense Unicorns and they discuss the challenges with bringing DevSecOps to the largest organization on the planet, the DoD.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time, with Special Guest Carl "C.J." Unis, United States Space Force as they discuss the supply chain risks we are facing, particularly with what is going on with the Ukraine/Russia conflict, with Taiwan and China and what we've seen after COVID.

Join this episode of DevOps Community of Practice as our Host, Brian Fox, sits down with Special Guest, Ian Anderson, Lead DevSecOps Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, to discuss DevOps within the Navy, best practices they have seen, current challenges and successes and where they see the future of DevOps and technology as a whole going in the DoD.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time, with Kate Stewart, VP of Dependable Embedded Systems, the Linux Foundation as they talk about her work as one of the founders of SPDX, the projects OpenChain and Zephyr but also how she helped make Linux a first class citizen for RTOS!

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Joey Arora, VP of Growth at the Outpost as they discuss the importance of dual-use technology in DoD and how to enable companies to become the next billion-dollar competitors to the current primes.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Armon Dadgar, Co-Founder and CTO of HashiCorp, as they discuss his journey and how HashiCorp managed to innovate in virtualization, key management, policy as code, service mesh and more.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with David A. Wheeler, Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security at the Linux Foundation to find more about Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), SPDX, OpenSSF and discuss what happened at the White House Open Source Summit!

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest Eve Maler, CTO, ForgeRock as they disucss identity management, how to secure it, how to adopt to zero trust principle with non person entity and person entity, security vs privacy and more.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guests David Kervin, Chief Solutions Officer, Torch.AI and Jon Kramer, Chief Technology Officer, Torch.AI as they discuss AI/ML capabilities and what it takes to successfully implement meaningful AI capabilities in organizations.

Join this episode to hear Danny and Nic discuss Continuous ATO, how he enables teams to move at the pace of relevance but with the right cybersecurity practices, how he thinks about continuous monitoring, and what he needs to have the right visibility to make the right decisions.

In this episode they will discuss the challenges that we face when building embedded software, decoupling software and hardware and enabling reuse of code/modules while interfacing with existing legacy, how this implementation is happening in DoD and how this compares to what a SpaceX is doing on a daily basis.

Join this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith featuring special guest, Barbara Morton, Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hear conversations regarding her prior career experience and story before joining as Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer at VA, the role that digital transformation is playing within her organization, her thoughts on an effective customer experience, and details about upcoming projects in the VA.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Nat Natraj, Co-Founder and CEO of AccuKnox as we discuss why KubeArmor and eBPF are essential for your baked-in security and runtime security, their new concept around policy templates supporting the MITRE ATTACK framework and STIGs, and why open-source and CNCF are essential to their success and what challenges they see in this current market.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Special Guest Chris Hughes, CISO & Co-Founder, Aquia where they discuss the current state of DoD Software Factories and their spread across the government, supply chain risk, continuous accreditation, compliance as code, and how to build the right culture and training for your teams so we can all move at the pace of relevance.

Join us for this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith and special guest Stuart Wagner, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, U.S. Air Force and Space Force as we discuss Stuart Wagner's career history and how he became Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, what is being implemented in the U.S. Air Force/Space Force to digitally transform operations and culture, and details about the next BRAVO Hackathon this month.

Join us for this episode of Digital Transformation with Jennifer Kenney-Smith and special guest, Ann Dunkin, CIO, U.S. Department of Energy as we discuss the following:

- The Journey towards becoming CIO  

- What is being done for digital transformation in the DOE?  

- How ATO has allowed DOE to deploy applications quickly  

- Deploying a Low Code platform 

- DOE's Playbook for scaling Digital Transformation

Join this episode as we dive into the challenges around API Discovery, how APIs are changing in this modern DevSecOps world, the concept of Shift Left, Protect Right when it comes to API security, the tie back to DevSecOps and CI/CD, and finally Sanjay will share how he took two 2-member startups to large distributed teams!

Join this episode as we will talk about Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Megan's genius idea of Incident Command System for ICS, why are ICS systems critical and what makes them different from traditional IT and learn more about what does the role of a Chief Product Security Officer entail!

Join this episode fo In the Nic of Time with special guest Prakash Sethuraman, CISO of CloudBees as they talk about the security challenges in DevOps, how to find the balance between velocity and security, and Continuous ATO.

Join us for this special episode of Low Code Trailblazers with Bill Bunce, Enterprise Account Executive, Pegasystems as he sits down with he collegue John Smith, Practice Lead - Public Sector, Pegasystems to discuss building a low code culture in your agency. 

Join this episode of Keeping US Federal Agencies Ahead of the Latest Vulnerabilities with Joseph Lin, Palo Alto Networks and Guest Gerald Caron, CIO, Assistant Inspector General for Information Technology, HHS OIG as we discuss Attack Surface Management. Some of the questions you can expect our host to bring up during the discussion include:

During this episode of In the Nic of Time find out what "ITasCode" is and how to shift cybersecurity left so they can be fully embedded into your development teams. They also discuss what cyber tools can facilitate that shift and lessons learned from selling his company to a larger organization.

Join In the Nic of Time with Zack Butcher, Head of Product at Tetrate as we talk about why a Service Mesh is essential to your cyber posture, why Envoy is winning as a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP), the recent NIST 800-204 publication series, and what is Next Generation Access Control and why it is the foundation of JADC2/ABMS for data-centricity!

Join this episode of  In The Nic of Time with Delegate Reid Novotnyto find out what it is like to push cyber laws in the Maryland General Assembly? How did Colonel Reid Novotny ended up leaving the U.S Air Force for the Maryland Air National Guard and become a member of the Maryland General Assembly? As a former Chief of Staff for two DAF CIOs, what did he see? What were the challenges? What created the tremendous tech debt we have today in the Air Force and Space Force?

Join this episode of The Modern Data Experience with Nick Psaki and Special Guest, Dr. Michael Segala, CEO, SFL Scientificas they discuss the following topics:

The history and evolution of SFL’s efforts to date.

The evolution of the services SFL developed. Why the decision to select and deploy Artificial Intelligence Ready Infrastructure? What have the results been?

Interaction and integration of AIacross the government?

What's next? Where do you see the evolution of AI capability evolving in the government?

What are the challenges ahead?

In the Nic of Time on Tuesday with Special Guest Nathanael Coffing, Chief Security Officer, Cloudentity to talk about identity management, authorization, person entity vs non-person entity, open policy agent and more!

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with special guest, Tracy Bannon, Senior Principal/ Software Architect & DevOps Advisor, MITRE, as we discuss why Culture matters so much to succeed in software innovation, how to attract and retain talent, how to train your teams and what is working or NOT working when it comes to the DoD Software Factories!

Join this episode to hear from Bill Bunce, Pegasystems, and Special Guests, Robyn Rees, Senior Advisor, Office of Human Capital, U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Emily Camardo, Director of Operations, srcLogic, and Robert Gasser, Chief Revenue Officer, Revature, as they discuss:

The current low code workforce. 

How build, hire, and grow software engineers.

The status of the low code workforce in Federal IT. 

How low code/no code effects software engineers jobs. 

The future of low code/no code in Federal IT. 

Don't miss this episode of In the Nic of Time session with Brig. General John Olson, who is not only the first Air Force and Space Force Chief Data and AI Officer but also the Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations.

Join this episode of The Modern Data Experience with Nick Psaki and Special Guest, Rob Albritton, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Practice Lead, Octo, as they discuss the following topics:

Intro to Rob Albritton and Octo Labs.

What Octo Labs has helped accomplish.

How to pick AI platforms and components.

What do we do with new data, and previous algorithms outputs?

What is the future evolution of AI capabilities? What technologies will help it get there? What are the challenges ahead?

Where does AI offer innovation?

Where is their risk associated in using AI?

How to pick AI capabilities through requirements.

Join Jennifer Kenney-Smith and Special Guest, Vidyut Desai, Chief Information Officer, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as they discuss the following topics:

What how Mr.Desai has incorporated the Technology Modernization Action Plan over the past year.

How best to prioritize in digital transformation.

How to achieve digital transformation within mission timeframes.

Dealing with Cultural push back on technology changes. 

Measuring success and benefits.

Viewing modernization as a business not just technology

His biggest technology lesson learned during pandemic.

Join us for this episode of Mobile and Cyber with Jaime Noble, Director, IT Security Division & Chief Information Security Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice as we discuss the following bullets: 

- An introduction to OJP/OCIO, mission, uniqueness, size, scope, autonomy, etc. (Remote work population, Macro level IT investments and priorities, and Mobile Cybersecurity specific visions) 

-Thoughts on the POTUS EO and What actions that EO initiated for the OJP/OCIO 

- How is OJP/OCIO addressing Zero-Trust? 

- Improving EDR across all “endpoints”. 

- How does “Mobile-EDR” play a role in the future at OJP/OCIO? 

- Does OJP/OCIO have plans to enable BYOD for Mobile? 

- Does OJP/OCIO have plans for developing mobile applications, either internal facing or for public consumption?

Join us or this special episode where we talk about Modeling and Simulation, Open Architecture and Digital twin capabilities and how to move your legacy programs to modern software and hardware best practices!

Join us to meet Raja Gudepu, the CEO of Oteemo!

We will be discussing how he has enabled large organizations to move and accelerate their move to DevSecOps using various enablers and accelerators, how he assesses organizations' maturity and how he invests in his people to ensure they continue to lead with continuous learning and new certifications.

Watch this event to meet Jay Bonci the Air Force and Space Force Chief Technology Officer.  Jay is leading the push for digital modernization across the DAF, including with modern transport (SD WAN), DevSecOps, EITaaS, Zero Trust implementation, Data fabric and much more!

You definitely do not want to miss the next episode of In the Nic with Lauren Knausenberger the Air Force and Space Force Chief Information Officer.  Lauren will share her thoughts on her priorities, her progress made after being in her role for 1 year and 7 months and what keeps her up at night.

Join us for this episode of the Federal Low Code Trailblazers Podcast with Bill Bunce, Pegasystems, and Special Guests Tracy Bannon, Senior Principal/ Software Architect & DevOps Advisor, MITRE and Alex Sutherland, Director, Salesforce Architecture, Liberty IT Solutions as they discuss DevOps, DevSecOps, and containerization throughout the Federal Government. See what processes they recommend to build and sustain DevOps practices, and the current status of of DevOps in the Federal IT ecosystem. 

Join Jennifer Kenney-Smith and special guest, Raylene Yung, Executive Director, Technology Modernization Fund, GSA, as they deep dive into using the Technology Modernization Fund as a way to modernize Federal technologies, improve customer and employee experience, and implement new processes. 

Join Bill Bunce, Enterprise Account Executive,  Pegasystems and Special Guest Ryan Korn, Senior Cloud Architect and Product Manager, Data Solutions, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce as they answer the following questions:

What is the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program?

How are you leveraging low code today?

What is your interpretation of a Citizen Developer?

What would qualify someone to become a citizen developer or, to put it another way, what skills should we look for?

Do you hire for citizen developers or grow them within the organization?

What are the benefits of leveraging a citizen developer mindset?

Do citizen developers fit into an Agile development methodology and how?

Is low-code better suited for citizen development?

What’s next for citizen development?

Intro Brett and AI in the Navy- 0:30

Applications, culture, processes and training of AI in the Navy- 8:30

How do we deploy AI capabilities to the service?- 16:45

Results of AI adoption in the Navy and the standing up of the JAIC- 23:00

Whats next for AI across the Navy/ How is AI going to evolve?- 32:00

Conclusion- 39:10

Notes:

Timestamps:  

- Vincent Intro (1 min) 

- POTUS EO and Zero Trust (4 mins) 

- Notion of Traditional Access (8 mins) 

- Applying ZT to enterprise wide mobility (14 mins) 

- BYOD (20 mins) 

- Leadership buy in (27 mins) 

- Mobile Applications (29 mins) 

- Which requirements should we be paying attention to? (35 mins) 

- Conclusion (37 mins)

- Guest intro (1 min)

- Mission and Functions of NIST (1:15) 

- Mike's journey to NIST (4:20) 

- Executive Order impact (6 mins) 

- Why is IoT a topic of interest for the federal government? (9:20) 

- What unusual risks does IoT present for federal workers? (16 mins) 

- How can you assist agencies in incorporating IoT into their infrastructure? (25:50) 

- How is NIST engaging with industry and internationally in efforts to improve? (29 mins) 

- Is NIST in position to shape behaviors for IoT? (32:45) 

- How much do you collaborate within NIST? (35:20) 

- Conclusion/wrap up (39 mins)

Host: Bill Bunce, Pega Systems   

Guest: Bryan Lane, FDIC  

TimeStamps: 

- Concept and history of "policy as code" (2 mins)

- Organizational benefits using policy as code (4:30) 

- Policy as code implementation mechanisms (10 mins) 

- Measuring policy with data (15 mins) 

- AI advancing this concept (16 mins) 

- How important is it to operationalize the AI capability model? (20 mins) 

- Culture change and The Opportunity Project (27 mins) - Closing (27:30)

Tom Suder, CEO of ATARC, sits down to interview Senior Technology Advisor to the Deputy Associate Administrator for Government-wide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration, with 34+ years experience in government, John Sullivan.

Timestamps:

- Early background on John (1:15)

- Path to finding first federal job (3:22)

- Experience at EPA (4:34)

- Enterprise Architecture and transition to OMB (9:30)

- Association involvement and GITEC (17 mins)

- Top programs and achievements (20:30)

- Most impactful tech trends (24:20)

- Superstar shoutouts (27 mins)

- What drives you? (31 mins)

- Passions outside of work (32 mins)

- Closing (35 mins)

Tune into this panel to hear from topic experts to discuss the importance of Identity Management within federal agencies as the workforce shifts to a hybrid. What best practices do these topic experts recommend to help best protect data? How can government agencies implement an effective Identity Security model to minimize risk and keep pace with adversaries? What are best practices for Privileged Access Management controls?

Jim Richberg sits down to interview Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity at Office of Personnel Management, James Saunders to discuss the future of work at OPM

Time Stamps:

Intro - James's job at OPM (1 min)

Cyber risks in a remote work environment (2 mins)

Notable cyber events (6:30)

Zero Trust technology roll out (9:10)

OPM Guidance update (11:20)

Increasing cyber security (15 mins)

Data Loss prevention (22:45)

How is OPM participating in expansion of ZTA (22:40)

TMF (24 mins)

Resources available for Cloud (25:20)

Role of private sector supporting OPM (27 mins)

Closing thoughts (29:40)

Co-hosts this season are Christ Oglesby and Terri-Lee Holland. Guest on this episode is Charlotte Lee.

Timestamps:

- Start time/introductions (5 mins)

- Language around modernization (7:25)

- Legacy Systems (8:30)

- Government/Industry working together (11:18)

- People and process approach (14 mins)

- Scoping down contracts (16 mins)

- Large contracts and big impacts (20 mins in)

- What should gov't be doing when creating new contracts? (21 mins)

- The move from UX to CX (28 mins)

- Key factors for leadership (30:30)

- Can technologists start becoming more human centric? (38:18)

- Continuous education (43:30)

- Leveraging information architecture (49:30)

- Does a project management plan call for a change management plan? (53 mins)

- Process flows and strategy (55:30)

- Identifying the customer (60:35)

Podcast host, James Richberg, Field CISO and Trusted Security Advisor at Fortinet, interviews Information Security Professional at CISA, Branko Bokan.

Time stamps:

- Intros and mission of CISA (1 Min)

- What are some lessons learned from the pandemic? (2:40)

- Center of Excellence for telework at CISA (4 mins)

- Cyber Monday (8 mins)

- Bandwidth challenges (10:40)

- Trusted Internet Connection and TIC 3.0 (12 mins)

- Connectivity and Security in a remote work environment (15 mins)

- IoT devices (18 mins)

- Most notable cybersecurity events from the past (22 mins)

- Ransomware (29 mins)

- Protection, detection, and response (33:50)

- Tabletop exercises (36 mins)

- Zero Trust and the Executive Order (37:30)

- Protective DNS for agencies (42:20)

- CISA.gov/telework (43:30)

Sample Low Code Use Cases in the Government.

Time stamps:

- Intro from Bill (1 min)

- Introductions from guests (2 mins)

- How does NSF select the right tool for the right IT project? (6 mins)

- How does KPMG make recommendations regarding Low Code tools? (9 mins)

- Does implementing low code require a subtle mindset shift? (17 mins)

- Does low code help solve the typical challenges faced by developers? (20 mins)

- Thoughts on bringing new people into the low code environment? (24 mins)

- NSF's Center Of Excellence (27 mins)

- How do we overcome awareness challenges for low code? (33 mins)

- Do you see low code platforms and the ability to deploy multiple applications help solve vulnerability challenges? (35 mins)

Jim Kovach sits down with Gerry Caron to discuss all things Cyber, Mobile and Zero Trust prior to the official launch of the ATARC Zero Trust Demonstration Lab.

Time stamps:

- Background on HHS and OIG mission (1 min in)

- Remote work and risk tolerances (3 mins in)

- Cybersecurity and tech investment in order to meet mission (6 mins in)

- Mobile device ebb and flow (9 mins in)

- Conditional access/Dynamic risk scoring (14 mins in)

- Zero Trust (15:30 mins in)

- Zero Day (20 mins in)

- ATARC Zero Trust Working Group and Lab overview (27 mins in)

Jennifer Kenney-Smith sits down with the Deputy Chief Data Officer at USCIS, Courtney Winship, where they discuss all things immigration, transformation efforts at DHS, navigating the immigration experience, and making decisions based on data.

In this episode of the ATARC Federal IT Newscast, members of the Application Development Working Group at ATARC sit down to discuss new techniques, best-practices and a prescriptive approach for how government agencies can reduce software supply chain risks within their applications as well as comply with new government regulations.

We are joined by David Wray from Microfocus & Robert Ficcaglia from Sunstone Secure to discuss the need for the executive order and NIST guidance on Software Supply Chain Risks. This episode is moderated by WG Chair and Senior Application Developer at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Rayvn Manuel.

This week on the ATARC Federal IT Newscast, Jim Kovach and JT Keating of Zimperium sit down with CIO of the Army Corps of Engineers, Dovarius Peoples. During this session we receive an overview of what the Army Corps of Engineers does in terms of their disaster relief mission, construction for the DOD, and their monitoring and maintenance of waterways and dams supporting the Pentagon. Peoples shares his thoughts around actions on the Executive Order for Zero Trust and how he sees the mobile landscape shifting in the next 5-10 years and much more!

ATARC's CEO, Tom Suder, interviews on a special episode celebrating and honoring Sandy's retirement from Government! Join as we share highlights from Sandy's career path journey, and experiences from his time within the Federal Government, and future personal and career aspirations!

JKS sits down with Candaice Deloach to discuss software development, software lifecycle and the warfighter mission.

Nick Psaki sits down with the Director of the National AI Institute, Gil Alterovitz to learn about the Veterans Administration's efforts and Artificial Intelligence.

Jennifer Kenney-Smith interviews CEO and Founder of ATARC, Tom Suder! In this episode, Jennifer and Tom discuss Government Road-blockers, Leadership, and Hacking Bureaucracy!

Join us for a Cloud and Coffee event with special guest Robyn Rees! Robyn is the Senior Advisor for Human Capital Transformation at the Department of the Interior, within the Office of Human Capital. She leverages her experience with Information Technology management, governance, budget, and project execution, to unlock human capital data leveraging advanced technologies. Robyn is a passionate advocate for enabling an “ever-ready” workforce that is highly resilient, adaptable to the changing world of work, and who will continue to be highly contributing members of diverse teams. Through the DOI Office of Human Capital efforts to enable an ecosystem of continuous reskilling and redeploying, Robyn is an advocate for prioritizing human capital, workforce, and work data, in order to provide equitable access to employment and advancement information over a long, varied, and diverse career

Here from a true expert on Identity in the Federal Government and learn why it is so important! Phil's mission is focused on improving the government's constituents' experience and all of the processes that go into that.

Join us for a Cloud and Coffee event with special guest, Brian Whittaker! Brian is the Director of Design and Development at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Prior to this role at CFPB, Brian was the Executive Director of 18F, an organization in the General Services Administration that collaborates with other agencies to fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology. 

Dave Zvenyach is the Director of Technology Transformation Services at GSA. He is a Digital Transformation guru and expert who shares with us some best practices for Digital Transformation within the Federal Space, and his experience as a Transformation coach.

This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we have the pleasure of speaking with Ken Kato. Kato shares his experience and insights with us as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow.

Join us for a Cloud and Coffee event with special guest Thomas Santucci! He is the Director of the Data Center & Cloud Optimization Initiative PMO at the General Services Administration (GSA). He oversees the PMO’s managing partner responsibilities for the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI), helps implement the federal Cloud Smart strategy, and serves as Co-Chair of the Federal CIO Cloud & Infrastructure Community of Practice, which has over 1,600 members from across the federal IT workforce.

DevSecOps within the Federal landscape has been a topic of growing priority, implementation, and necessity over the past several years. Join this webinar to hear from leaders in DevSecOps practices as they discuss the current status, modern projects, and drive forward of Federal DevSecOps platforms used to push IT modernization, operational efficiency, and cybersecurity. Listen as topic experts discuss the middle point of where DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and enterprise IT as a service (ITaaS) meet, and create effective, secure, modern, operational systems within the Federal IT ecosystem. Hear first-hand the current status, challenges, successes, and vision for the future, as viewed by DevSecOps leaders and practitioners in Federal Agencies. What do Government decision-makers see as the future of DevSecOps? Where within the government are best practices in place? Where is there still the most room for growth?

Join ATARC for a robust discussion on how agencies are innovating to stay ahead of advisories.  Hear from Dr Larry Ponemon of the Ponemon institute as he shares the latest results of a 2021 Government Breach Trends Study that examines the problems and what innovation is happening across government to move to a more proactive security posture. Then learn what our panel of experts are doing to improve breach detection and response in a landscape where they are inundated by new, rapidly-evolving challenges as well as lessons learned.

This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we have the pleasure of speaking with Justin Marsico. Marsico shares his experience and insights with us as the Chief Data Officer / Deputy Assistant Commissioner at ‎Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

New ways of working and sharing information have emerged within the Federal Government. This has pushed agencies to reevaluate their technology needs and develop plans to further their IT modernization strategy. Zero Trust has come to the forefront of enabling this shift to a teleworking work force. Listen as topic experts dive into the importance of Zero Trust and how it is evolving the Federal Government’s view of security. What does Zero Trust Security mean to Federal requirements? What are some best practices Federal Agencies are using to enforce Zero Trust?

In this panel discussion, Federal IT executives address how to better manage the risk of sensitive data exposure through improved cyber compliance. What steps can be taken to verify trust in the Federal Government supply chain? How to source reliably secure solutions? Where and when to use automation as a compliance, monitoring, and remediation mechanism? Listen to our panelists explore the “art of the possible” as well as share lessons learned and best practices.

New ways of working and sharing information have emerged within the Federal Government. This has pushed agencies to reevaluate their technology needs and develop plans to further their IT modernization strategy. This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by Federal IT Government Leaders within the Federal Cloud space. Hear as topic experts dive into how they reevaluated their agencies’ technology needs during this pandemic, and further strengthened their agencies’ data capabilities. What strategies have been put in place in order to strengthen Cloud as the Federal Government is starting to embrace a “new normal”? What type of solutions have been made available to help strengthen Federal Data Management within a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud?

Join us for a Cloud and Coffee event with special guest, Nagesh Rao, acting Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Bureau of Industry and Security within the US Department of Commerce. Most recently, he was Director of Business Technology Solutions (BiTS) at the US Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of the Chief Information Officer, and prior to Chief Technologist & Entrepreneur in Residence within SBA’s Office of Investment & Innovation.

Join the ATARC 2021 Low Code Virtual Summit on March 2, 2021, from 1:30-4 PM EST to hear Federal IT topic experts discuss how an agile approach such as low code allows teams to effectively meet their agencies mission requirements, even with the constant changes we have seen over the past year. Hear thought leaders share how they are using low–code technologies to not increase their mission delivery and remain adaptable to changing climates.

Everyone knows (but often fails to recognize) that for every human interaction with an online application or service there are hundreds if not thousands of invisible machine-to-machine interactions that support the same work.

These machines can be actual boxes, virtualized systems, containers and clusters, or they can be ephemeral serverless applications …. but they all have one thing in common. They each have a unique IDENTITY. This identity needs to be protected. And moreover, the number of these identities is growing at an exponential rate. This is the realm of an emerging and fast-moving infosec category, Machine Identity Management.

Tune into this session to hear from Federal Leaders on the unique challenges of managing these identities across hybrid cloud environments. What are the fundamental capabilities needed for enterprise-wide management of machine identities? Listen as subject matter experts address different Federal cloud use cases, as well as lessons learned throughout this process.

Listen as Cloud Experts explain the importance of Cloud across the Federal Government. In this period of time of building the “new normal”, What emerging technology has led to strengthening Cloud? This event will set out to explain the emerging technology that has been used to help strengthen Federal Cloud, along with the future of Cloud in the Federal Government. What does it mean to strengthen your agency’s Cloud? Where do these Federal Leaders see the future of Cloud going, and what emerging technology will help it get there? Here topic experts will discuss the best practices to implement to strengthen Federal Cloud, some lessons learned, as well as some challenges from along the way.

New ways of working have emerged, both for Federal Government agencies and the citizens they serve.  This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by Federal IT Government Leaders within the Federal Cloud space. Hear as topic experts dive into how they reevaluated their agencies’ technology needs during this pandemic, and further strengthened their agencies’ data capabilities.

This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Fabrizio. Fabrizio shares his experience and insights with us as the Branch Chief at SBA!

Robyn Rees serves as a strategic advisor for human capital transformation at the Department of the Interior (DOI). Ms. Rees leverages over 15 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) to articulate use cases for advanced technology insertions that resonate with non-technology business leaders.

In honor of women's history month, ATARC hosted an interview with Kurt Beyer to talk about his book titled “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age”. The interview was conducted by Jennifer Kenney-Smith of GitLab, who dug right into the phenomenon that Ms. Hopper was, her amazing thought leadership in regards to digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution, and the legacy she has left behind to help future female IT leaders forge their own paths.

An information-sharing event that is focused on the impact that telework—accelerated by COVID-19, is having on cybersecurity across the Federal Government. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued several memorandums such as M-19-17 and M-20-19 to encourage and maximize telework flexibilities for the Federal workforce. Topic Leaders will go in-depth about the cybersecurity authentication changes and innovations that have been incorporated into their agency and how they plan to make it a part of the “New Normal”. What authentication tools helped the Federal Government make the switch to teleworking? Where do these Federal Leaders see the future of teleworking taking the Federal Government?

Join us for this week’s Cloud and Coffee event with Ms. Nancy Gillis, CEO of Global Electronics Council

Gillis has more than 20 years’ experience leveraging sustainability to increase competitiveness, reduce risk and foster innovation in both public and private sector organizations. Prior to joining the Green Electronics Council, Nancy was the Global Lead for Resilient and Responsible Supply Chains with Ernst & Young (EY) and managed sustainable procurement engagements for Fortune 100 companies. She joined EY from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Federal Government’s procurement agency that oversees approximately $45 billion of annual spend. At GSA, she served as the Director of the Federal Supply Chain office, responsible for expanding the use of sustainability criteria and ecolabels in federal procurements. Nancy has a graduate degree in Communications Technology from Georgetown University.

2020 became the year of haste. Workforces and workloads went remote. In fact, the word “remote” is attached to everything, from jobs to meetings to schools to family gatherings. One of the single most significant changes that have occurred in 2020 for organizations is their digital attack surface. In many cases, the internet is now an organization’s network and houses everything from their users to their corporate resources and supply chains. The decisions of 2020 will indeed ‘determine the course of eternity’—at least the new normal for security teams. Hear as panelists talk about the shift to remote working, the challenges it brought, strategies to make the most of it, and overall preparedness for their agencies to go remote. What were some lessons learned? What would these federal leaders have done differently? Tune into this panel to hear these federal leaders discuss the future of the workforce, and where they see it going in 2021 as we continue to adjust to the “new normal”.

This unique event brings together members from across the NRC IT space to discuss the agency’s digital transformation initiatives. Here topic experts and decision-makers will discuss success stories and plans for process transformation as it pertains to people, technology, infrastructure, contracts, and partnerships. Listen as the NRC explains how they solved problems such as remote work, inaccessible data, agency workflow application, finding and integrating disparate agency data for decision making, and more. Hear what is in store for the NRC for the future, and where they will go from here.

Mr. Brown is focused on the technical vision and direction for ISARA Corporation, a security solutions company specializing in creating crypto-agile and quantum-safe security solutions for today’s information technology ecosystems. ISARA is clearing the path to quantum-safe security for enterprises and governments by delivering practical, standardized solutions for a seamless migration. Prior to ISARA, Mike was Vice President of Security Product Management and Research at BlackBerry, where he co-founded the product security practice and was responsible for the vision and execution and has spoken at global security events including RSA, CTIA, GTEC, Bloomberg, APECTEL and InfoSec Europe. He holds a Master of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, focusing on cryptography.

Join us for this Cloud and Coffee session with special guest, Chief Information Security Officer, John Ramsey!  John was formerly the CISO for the U.S. House of Representatives and members of Congress, which has 950 sites across the entire United States and associated territories. In 2017, he was selected as one of the top 100 CISOs globally, only one of two government CISOs selected.

Join us for an introduction to Intelligent Automation (IA) for the Federal Government. Hear from Government and Industry representatives about this powerful combination of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence), its applications and challenges in the federal government market.

This week on the DevSecOps Coffee Chat.. We hear from the Chair of the ATARC Digital Transformation Working Group, Bill James! Bill joined the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as an SES in the CIO organization in October 2016 and served as Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Information and Technology (OIT). Today, Bill is an Independent Consultant, Offering Insight to Outcomes, at FedSmarts!

Welcome to ATARC’s Cloud and Coffee Series! This week’s guest is Mike Cassidy, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) within the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the United States Trustees Program. Cassidy provides technical strategy and guidance to deliver high quality products and services to the USTP user community. He is an accomplished technology leader with over 26 years of experience developing, designing, testing, securing and implementing enterprise solutions for large organizations. Prior to his position as CTO, Michael worked as a Cybersecurity Architect for DOJ, Enterprise Architect for Vcentra and a Principal Consultant for Microsoft providing Federal agencies high quality technical solutions with a focus on timely delivery within budget.

This year has proven the need to strengthen AI and Data Analytics capabilities, and a need to solve the AI and Data Analytics challenges brought forth due to the pandemic. This event will explore the current state of technology, use cases, and limitations of AI and Data Analytics, in the Federal Government space. Listen in as subject matter experts share lessons learned and solutions to the challenges brought on to their agency’s as a result of COVID-19. What strategies have been put in place in order to strengthen AI and Data Analytics as the Federal Government is starting to embrace a “new normal”? Find out how these topic experts have pushed through the challenges brought forth through COVID-19.

Join ATARC for a robust discussion on how agencies can leverage SASE-based TIC 3.0 to enable a secure mobile government workforce.  The shift to work from home, necessitated by the pandemic, has resulted in a “new normal” for federal agencies.  Hear thought leaders from both the public and private sectors discuss how TIC 3.0 guidelines can enable a secure telework environment for agency employees, and how agencies can use the cloud to create a faster and more secure sensitive information access system.  Learn what these experts are doing to execute network and cloud security during COVID-19 and lessons learned.

Risk Management Framework (RMF) is commonly used among the federal government, with the goals of improving information security, strengthening the risk management process, and encouraging reciprocity among federal agencies.

Join us for this panel, which sets out to discuss how advancements in the federal cloud space, mobility and distributed workforces have driven the focal point for security to shift. Topic experts will discuss lessons learned in successfully implementing cloud methodologies, tools, and techniques in a time of continuous change and telework. Together, panelists explore available and desired solutions to rectify past and pre-empt potential future data breaches, as both citizens and the government agencies serving them embrace “the new normal”.

2020 has proven to be a difficult year for almost every industry. In sales, it has forced the community to find new, unique ways to connect with potential clients and produce new customers in a COVID environment. Join this event to hear leaders in Federal Sales discuss how they are remaining optimistic and successful in the light of new COVID challenges such as, loss of trade shows, interpersonal communication, lead generation, and reevaluating priorities. During this panel, the speakers will also discuss how the new Federal IT goals set forth by the incoming administration will affect the overall sales processes, and priorities in the upcoming years. How have they seen sales change throughout 2020 and what do they see having an impact on Federal sales in 2021 and beyond?

As federal government agencies are trying to determine the extent of and recover from recent data breaches, IT professionals need to realize that data policies, governance and IT must be continually monitored and updated. Tightening security features around applications, technologies, and networking infrastructure is even more important when coupled with the accelerated transition to remote and hybrid work environments, brought on by the pandemic. It has been unavoidable for agencies to reevaluate their technology needs and furthering IT modernization through the Cloud. As the boundaries of an agency’s IT are expanded from the cloud to the edge, there is an ever-increasing need for the broadest set of visibility, control, and security functions at the cloud edge.

Join us for this panel, which sets out to discuss how advancements in the federal cloud space, mobility and distributed workforces have driven the focal point for security to shift. Topic experts will discuss lessons learned in successfully implementing cloud methodologies, tools, and techniques in a time of continuous change and telework. Together, panelists explore available and desired solutions to rectify past and pre-empt potential future data breaches, as both citizens and the government agencies serving them embrace “the new normal”.

This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we have the pleasure of speaking with the Director of System Configuration & Delivery Automation Division at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Spence Spencer. Spencer shares his experience and insights on leading a team and putting people first! Below is his list of book suggestions. Check out this episode to learn more!

Reading List:

Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek (current read)
The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst (CEO Red Hat)
Turn the Ship Around, L. David Marquet
Out of The Crisis, W. Edwards Deming
Deming’s Road to Continual Improvement, William Scherkenbach
The Goal, Elihu Goldratt
DevOps Handbook, Gene Kim et. al.
The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim et. al.
The Art of Capacity Planning, John Allspaw

To guide governmentwide adoption of 5G and related technologies, the Federal Mobility Group’s (FMG) 5G and Mobile Network Infrastructure Working Group (WG) over the past year has undertaken an extensive evaluation of 5G testing approaches. Their work has culminated in establishing a framework to support federal agency use-case testing. Listen to this interview with Mr. Nick Ward and Ms. Serena Reynolds about the framework development process, importance and agency applications.

Welcome to ATARC’s Cloud and Coffee Series! This week’s guest is Deputy Chief of the FCC’s Public Safety & Homeland Security Bureau, Debra Jordan! Debra is responsible for matters related to emergency preparedness, disaster response, and national security.  She brings more than 30 years of information technology and communications experience supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), where she managed a variety of critical information and communications systems.

This week on the ATARC DevSecOps Coffee Chat we spoke with Brian Fox, Director of National Security and Intelligence portfolio at 18F! Brian shares his career's journey as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Army, his experience with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and how he arrived at his current 18F role today!

This week on the DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we heard from CIO (Acting) at the Department of Commerce, Nagesh Rao. Nagesh shares the journey of his career up to the point, his experience with Customer Experience, the steps he took to ensure his path, and where he is today!

On this week's DevSecOps Coffee Chat, we sat down with Lead DevSecOps Engineer for the Naval Sea Systems Command, Ian Anderson. Ian shared with us some of the projects he has been working on and how covid has shaped our way of doing DevSecOps -  Making processes more rigorous and increasing productivity!

In this episode, Harrison Smith, Director of Enterprise Digitalization at the IRS, shares his journey and experiences with us from working with the Navy, followed by DHS, and then transitioning into his current role at the IRS. Harrison believes that the key to his success has been his ability to recognize when he doesn't have the answers, asking the right questions and remaining transparent, while also understanding how to learn from others. Another piece of advice he shares is the importance of knowing who the expert is, and, he states, "it is almost always not you". Getting done what needs to be done, by using the expertise of others, is key to completing the mission. And when it comes to the mission, you need to do whatever it takes!

Listen as Federal CIO’s and CDO’s explain the importance of Data Governance across the Federal Government. In this period of time of building the “new normal”, how do you establish a  more consistent and integrated data infrastructure and data practices throughout your agency?  What does it mean to strengthen your agency’s Data Intelligence? Here topic experts will discuss the best practices to implement data governance, some lessons learned, as well as challenges from along the way.

Join this podcast to hear Federal thought leaders explore digital IT modernization during the time of a pandemic. These topic experts will focus on security and cloud advancements and challenges in a time of social distancing. Here thought leaders will discuss how they are ensuring digital transformation, improving accessibility, and updating internal digital services to allow for wide information spread. Hear how a remote work environment has challenged and changed how these topic experts have modernized their agencies’ IT space.

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them.  This podcast will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by federal IT Government Leaders during the crisis. Speakers will discuss how they’re approaching emerging technology along with procurement, staff training and expectations management to maximize return on investment. Hear as Federal CIO’s dive into how they reevaluated their agency’s technology needs during this pandemic time, and further grew their IT modernization.

Listen to the ATARC Federal IT Modernization Virtual Summit, Keynote, from Maria Roat, Deputy Administrator and Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of Management and Budget. 

To help us evaluate progress made thus far, ATARC, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, conducted a large scale survey on the current status, challenges, successes, and vision for the future, as viewed by DevSecOps leaders and practitioners in Federal Agencies. Join this podcast for the first peek at the survey results and emerging take-aways.

This webinar will focus on how TIC 3.0 and  Zero Trust Security come together to best protect and defend the cloud. Listen as topic experts discuss how we need to be thinking differently about security, risk, & governance. How does the Federal Government address both Zero Trust Security and TIC 3.0? Here subject matter experts will explore how these security practices have been affected by the remote workforce, and how these challenges should be seen as the “New Normal” in a Zero Trust and TIC 3.0 world.

We are back!! We hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Tune in for this week's episode with host Jennifer Kenney-Smith, as she sits down with Amber Chaudhry, Customer Experience Lead at the Small Business Administration. We get to hear about Amber's experience paving the way for Customer Experience under former CIO at SBA, Maria Roat. Amber persevered, advocated, and challenged herself, and her team, along the way! Listen in to this success story and hear about Amber's lessons learned and advice for those trying to inspire change within their organization.

ATARC Presents Digital Transformation with the European Commission’s Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain. This is an information-sharing event focused on FinTech Digital Innovation in the EU, the European Blockchain Partnership and Blockchain as a Service. This webinar is hosted by the ATARC Security Working Group.

ATARC interview with Jim Sheire, Branch Chief of Quality Services Management Office (QSMO) at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Vincent Sritapan, Cyber QSMO Acting Section Chief, CISA to look back on the first year of activities, discuss lessons learned and accomplishments made.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about how the GSA Digital Worker Credentialing Handbook is helping user’s better understand procedural requirements, adjudications, and appeals of GSA employees, applicants, appointees, volunteers, and affiliates. This webinar is hosted by the ATARC Robotic Process Automation Project Team, as part of the artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Working Group at ATARC.

DevSecOps Coffee Chat with CIO at USPTO, Jamie Holocombe

Due to strict federal requirements for mobile and IoT applications, agencies face several unique challenges when it comes to harnessing the full potential of mobile computing. Not only do they have to enable a secure and productive mobile workforce, they also must deliver efficient public-facing communications and reliable citizen services.

One of the biggest mobility challenges that agencies encounter is how to effectively sync data between applications in the cloud and mobile or IoT devices used in the field. Doing so without compromising on security, performance, and reliability especially when mobile devices are offline or in remote locations with limited connectivity. Join us for a collaborative panel discussion where we’ll share lessons learned from specific agency’s use cases along with best practices for building the ultimate mobile experience.

How should agencies be assessing their level of where they are and where they want to be? This panel will discuss workforce requirements to succeed in predictive analytics projects, Workforce 2025 (OPM/RPA), CDO council/training government workforce, action plan 2020 for data skills, Data Readiness and prep for predictive analytics, culture, and change management in agencies.

Post election analysis, reflection, discussion, and discovery with industry experts specializing in electronic voting, blockchain development, and regulations. Gain valuable insights from the panelists in regards to elections the security surrounding the process.

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them. Agencies are reevaluating their technology needs during this pandemic time, and furthering their IT modernization, through Digital Transformation. One key ingredient to the advancements in Digital Transformation are Machine learning and Automation development.  Listen as topic experts dive into how advances in Machine Learning and Automation have made it easier to engage with constituents across channels. How do these federal topic experts use machine learning and automation to improve the process of reaching constituents?

To provide a podcast as a platform to share the journey of Digital Transformation/ Expand upon passion and purpose and get a message out to the federal government / Audience to learn more about digital and IT transformation with evolving technology and a focus on DevOps.

Join us for a webinar to hear from the Head of AI Ethics Policy at the JAIC, Alka Patel, and a presentation from For Humanity’s Executive Director, Ryan Carrier. ForHumanity, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity formed to examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI and Automation.  Further, to engage in risk control and mitigation, where possible, to ensure the optimal outcome…ForHumanity.  Our organization is currently composed of an interdisciplinary group of highly-dedicated volunteers with over 100 contributors and 23 Fellows. We possess a wide range of expertise in AI – spanning AI ethicists to AI security.

Independent Audit of AI Systems (IAAIS) seeks to create an infrastructure of trust for all autonomous systems which directly impact humans. We focus on Ethics, Bias, Privacy, Trust, and Cybersecurity as our lens and filter.  Our contributors join with deep knowledge and are experts in some or all of those areas, both theoretically and practically.  We are drafting audit rules and standards for autonomous systems in every corner of the economy and forming cohorts that bring our experts together with industry practitioners to ensure that the audits achieve their mission of mitigating risks to humans while being comprehensive, pragmatic, and implementable. We have crafted 3000+ audit rules already and are working closely with the ICO in the UK to meet their request for a GDPR certification scheme. We have recently been confirmed as a Trusted Ecosystem Partner by the JAIC and we look forward to drafting audit rules for the JAIC’s TradeWind platform and implementing the DoD’s AI Ethics Principles. During this webinar, we expect to introduce the IAAIS to the participants.

Listen to ATARC's coffee chat with change agent, Rayvn Manuel, Senior Application Developer at Smithsonian Institution, NMAAHC. Rayvn is effectively improving mission enablement and user experience, while being a thought leader in the federal space. Join us as she shares her story on this 15 minute coffee chat.

The utilization of emerging technologies in procurement and acquisition have come a long way from years past. Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing have developed to a new point, where more capabilities exist today to explore its many applications. The time is right for industry, government, and academia to collaborate together and explore how these technologies may be applied using publicly available data and regulations. There is a wealth of information contained publicly available in distributed databases such as Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation, FPDS-NG, USA Spend, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation. These sources can be utilized to develop an acquisition tool that will benefit the entire acquisition community. A Data and Analytics Lab should be created where products and solutions can be developed and explored to advance acquisition, and create the acquisition process easier for all parties. Experts from across government, industry, and academia can partner together and develop a tool to benefit the entire acquisition community. It could be used to answer basic questions, perform analysis, or to detect when there are problems and anomalies within the statutes, regulations, and/or contract requirements.

This event is a first look at the ATARC TIC 3.0 Demonstration Center located on the Equinix campus in Ashburn, VA that will provide Federal agencies an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate industry-leading TIC solutions designed to optimize user experience while simultaneously improving security compliance and efficacy. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a first look at the early results of the ATARC TIC 3.0 Demonstration Center, and its ability to test and evaluate emerging technologies and shared services, and its ability to meet the expectations of a federal workforce that wants simple, seamless access to applications and data.

Learn more about the transformation of TIC in a cloud-connected and increasingly distributed world at this exciting event!

Identity and access management, data analytics, and artificial intelligence are all important components of today’s digital transformation efforts. What if we could marry all three to create a more secure, better controlled, and highly automated identity analytics solution that also offers an easier, faster and seamless user experience? Underlay this union with automated identity governance procedures, and you’ll have a reliable identity model with extensive compliance capability. Join this collaborative panel discussion to hear how federal agency IT executives navigate the risks and overcome the challenges in user identity authentication, authorization and proofing, as well as implementation of good security policies and practices.

What does it take for one person to spark an idea for change and then fan it into a transformational shift for the larger organization? How can an individual contributor communicate that vision to peers and executives to influence IT projects, programs, or even agency direction? Join this session to hear women leaders in government share their insight, experiences, and advice for ‘selling innovation upwards’.

Learn how to:

Don’t miss this virtual mentoring session with top women leaders in the US military and civilian government! You’ll learn how to develop and gain support to build out your vision and make a significant impact on your organization as a leader of one or of a small team.

On September 16, 2020, a bipartisan bill was introduced by Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) that would fast-track quantum internet innovations in the United States by establishing and supporting a quantum network infrastructure research and development program at the Department of Energy’s Office of Science: the Quantum Network Infrastructure Act of 2020. This proposed legislation would amend Title IV of the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) of 2018 which was passed to form a coordinated Federal program that accelerates quantum research and development for the economic and national security of the United States. Join our expert panelists for an engaging discussion on current quantum workforce development efforts.

To provide a podcast as a platform to share the journey of Digital Transformation/ Expand upon passion and purpose and get a message out to the federal government / Audience to learn more about digital and IT transformation with evolving technology and a focus on DevOps.

A panel discussion on network modernization in relation to the challenges of delivering enterprise-wide security and performance under the new normal. Agency leaders examine the limitations of traditional Wide Area Networks, and the benefits of redesigning WAN infrastructure in the context of TIC 3.0 guidance. What are the advantages of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and what can be gained from smarter connectivity across distributed environments – data centers, clouds, branch offices, and teleworkers? Learn about SD-WAN enabled cost savings, zero touch provisioning new branches, critical security functionality, intent-based networking, and streamlined network operations. Join us for this collaborative discussion.

As we move into 2021, we bring with us national investment momentum towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Information Sciences (QIS). With his most recent announcement of over $600 million dedicated to QIS, President Trump is chartering new territory and establishing a policy of aggressive R&D in future technologies. By likening the effort to past American achievements of landing on the moon.and developing the internet, President Trump seeks to garner a national strategy that will bring together public, private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations. Join us on this discussion about what’s next and policy impacts to R&D efforts.

A collaborative panel discussion around the already evidenced and future evolution of TIC 3.0 – and where agencies stand in their confidence to take steps towards its implementation. What started as a higher level “Cloud Smart” adoption strategy, has progressed into an enhanced set of protection frameworks. Yet the guidance remains dynamic, adaptable and descriptive to accommodate the evolving cloud, mobility and remote working technologies as well as varying levels of individual agencies’ risk tolerance. Hear from large and small agency cloud adoption leaders about their distinct use cases, including remote user access, modernization of branch offices, and network modernization. Join the experts in their discussion of navigating the various cloud strategies and best path forward.

National scale problems require the complete integration of multiple fields on knowledge and joint effort between academia, industry, government, and non-profits to solve them The Convergence Accelerator is a one and half year old program at the National Science Foundation that exists to fund the development of solutions to these problems.

Now into its second Cohort, track topics include: Open Knowledge Networks (OKN) (2019), Future of Work (2019), Quantum Technology (2020), and AI Innovation (2020). One of nine projects selected for Phase II of the program from 41 Phase II projects, the Precision Medicine OKN from UCSF will incorporate billions of factual relationships among biomedical concepts, providing a discovery engine that will enable doctors, researchers, the pharmaceutical industry and the citizen scientist to explore biomedicine in its whole might. Dr. Sergio Baranzini, the Principal Investigator for this project, will discuss how they will improve medicine, producing better outcomes for us all.

An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal government and for improved public facing services.

In order to explore the Moon, Mars, and the universe beyond, an organization must be at the forefront of digital transformation and the adoption of new technologies. Join this event to see how NASA is able to achieve its advancements of new technology through agency wide coordination, and the encouragement of best practices. This event will focus on the digital advancement of NASA’s systems and how they are able to succeed in digital transformation in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), model-based everything (MBx), culture & workforce (C+W), collaboration, data, more!

This panel will explore lesson’s learned, common misconceptions, the value proposition, challenges, and use cases related to the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) journey.

Shareholders have great expectations for boards to take an active role in managing risks. Yet, boards only spend 9% of their time on risks. A quantum-aware board of directors must become the new standard. Consequently, board members should have an understanding of how this technology works to help ensure that the organizations they oversee become quantum resilient. Today, we have assembled an elite group of quantum computing experts to highlight the importance of quantum risk preparedness from a global perspective.

An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal government and for improved public facing services.

The OSCAL/Agile ATO Project Team has been working to increase the speed of the Authority to Operate (ATO) for Cloud while keeping pace with security requirements in the Government. This project team explores OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language) as a way to capture FedRAMP artifacts in machine-readable format to increase automation and the creation of a Zero Trust test environment to capture data for security testing and the creation of artifacts. This panel will give an overview of their pilot project, as well as answer live audience Q&A.

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them. Agencies are reevaluating their technology needs during this pandemic time, and furthering their IT modernization, through DevSecOps. This panel will set out to discuss how advancements in DevSecOps lead to an increased visibility for security and push for further modernization in the Federal IT space. These topic experts will also discuss solutions for successfully implementing DevOps methodology, tools, and techniques within Federal agencies in a time of continuous change and telework.

Ensuring the integrity of a free election process is a sacred task in the United States. It involves the Federal, State, and Local Government and a massive amount of volunteers coming together to ensure a fair process.  This is a difficult process during normal times considering threats from foreign and domestic adversaries combined with the coordination required to ensure every vote is counted. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the threat landscape for the 2020 election cycle and our upcoming election processes will be under unprecedented scrutiny to ensure that our democratic institutions are protected from outside influence. This panel of national election security experts will discuss how adversaries may exploit the unique factors of the upcoming elections, from vote-by-mail to disinformation campaigns, to further disrupt the upcoming elections, and offer possible solutions that can be implemented by governments and voters to counter these threats.

This event brings together leaders in the federal cybersecurity ecosystem to discuss the challenges and changes they have faced securing their systems through COVID-19. See how these government thought-leaders are realigning policies and procedures to maintain a secure environment. Learn how traditional identity practices have been affected by the remote workforce, and the obstacles agencies have faced adjusting to new ways of identity management.

These awards celebrate individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to the advancement of digital transformation in the public sector over the past year. Hear real-world examples from thought leaders on how they worked to make their agencies more effective, cost-efficient, and productive than ever before.

What does 5G mean for the government? 5G enables the Internet of Things and is one of the more important emerging technologies. Thanks to its flexibility, every level of government will use 5G as IoT enters the public sector. This panel will address successful applications of 5G, top priorities within agencies for the upcoming year in regards to 5g deployment, and lessons learned to date with 5G initiatives that may help government colleagues and industry leaders working on these issues.