ATARC Federal IT Newscast

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.

The future of work brings an overwhelming amount of information. How might we work together better to make sense of it? What role does people analytics play in creating the best places where people want to work? Join Nina and Chris as they hold a dynamic conversation with Keith Krut, Head of Analytics and Director of Talent Strategy at NASA. At NASA, Keith and his teams are asking sophisticated qu...

Is it possible that as younger workers shift from role to role, this might be a net positive for teams and organizations? This week Nina and Chris sit down with Heidi Halvarson, Philanthropy Program Manager with the Medtronic Foundation and self-proclaimed “Federal Fangirl”. As a leader in the non-profit sector, Heidi brings a unique, sector switching cross-sectional perspective on the next genera...

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 Qam...

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: What do you see as the role for partnership on IT and security within government, with industry, and with academia? Zero Trust was the primary focus...

Few agencies have been in the news more than the Internal Revenue Service. In this episode, Nina sits down with Ken Corbin – the first Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer at the IRS. In this role, Ken focuses on overseeing the agency's efforts to radically improve taxpayer services. Together, they take a deep dive into customer experiences, building mission-ready teams, and the unexpected benefits o...

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.

Whether we plan for it or not, organizations have internal cultures that determine the employee experience, and, by extension, the customer experience as well. In this episode, Nina and Chris sit down with Erik Anderson, the Chief of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Office of Administration which oversees the day to day operations of the agency. As a newer Senior Executive, Erik...

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.

Does "Solving for X" actually make sense in the real world? In this episode, Nina and Chris welcome two senior federal leaders, Dorothy Aronson, Chief Information Officer and Chief Data Officer for the National Science Foundation and Robyn Rees, an ATARC Board Member and advocate for unlocking human capital data to power workforce transformation. Together their combined experiences span across bot...

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.

Nina Bianchi, Solution Principal for Medallia Public Sector, and Chris Crist, Chief of DevSecOps at US Transportation Command both agree that workforce and digital transformation in the federal government lies at the intersection of the customer, employee, and workforce experiences. The question is…which one comes first and what does the workforce experience of the future look like? How does the g...

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.