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If you were unable to make it to last week’s AITalks, you truly missed out on a special day. The first-ever event featured the top leaders in AI from across the public sector. However, we have a special treat today if you didn’t make it. I hosted a dynamic panel on the role of the federal chief AI officer with two of the first federal CAIOs appointed in the role, as well as a top industry AI execu...

GSA wants to be the leader in Federal Generative AI by The Daily Scoop Podcast

AITalks, the premier event where top government leaders, tech innovators, and industry experts converge to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the public sector space. During the daylong event, you heard about cutting-edge AI applications revolutionizing government operations — from cybersecurity to citizen services — practical insights on building a culture of AI ad...

Yesterday, Scoop News Group produced the U I Path on tour public sector event at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel kicked off the event talking about how automation has enhanced his agency's operations.

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Today… on The Daily Scoop Podcast… from The Scoop News Group. OPM’s tech-friendly director steps down And, inside the debate on banning ransomware payments

Today we have a special interview recorded from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, which last week was home of Google Cloud Next 2024. While there, I had the tremendous opportunity to speak at length with Karen Dahut, Google Public Sector CEO. During our conversation, we covered a lot of ground, taking in all of the announcements from Next, reflecting on the upcoming two-year birthda...

Google's Leigh Palmer on the need for transparency in public sector AI by The Daily Scoop Podcast

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It’s been 13 years since FedRAMP was created as the federal government’s cloud security compliance program. And like any federal technology program that’s been around that long, its mission and the services it set out to provide in 2011 are very different from what agencies need today. In particular, the FedRAMP program office recently wrote in a new roadmap for the prgram that it is critical that...

Kiersten Todt has worked on just about every hot-button cybersecurity issue you can imagine. Currently the CEO of Liberty Group Ventures, her most recent role in government was as the chief of staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As a Senate staffer, she drafted key parts of the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security, and during the Obama years, she...

Since 2016, the Department of Defense and other national security agencies have partnered with the Hacking 4 Defense program allowing students at universities across the U.S. and the globe to address critical problems facing the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Launched as a pilot out of Stanford, the program has expanded to more than 63 universities and enlisted more than 3,0...

The FedScoop news team is growing … sort of. We recently promoted our editorial fellow Caroline Nihill to a permanent member of the reporting team. You’ve likely seen Caroline’s work since joining the team last summer, covering developments in AI, shift in the Technology Modernization Fund and opening FedScoop’s aperture wider on Capitol Hill. But now that she’s a full-time member of the team, we...

Since 2019, Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights has issued annual reports on the top trends transforming government. Tuesday, Deloitte issued its latest report for 2024, in which it presents the eight trends propelling the 10x government of the future. Bill Eggers is the executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights and the author of the Top Trends in Government 2024 report...

The Air Force Research Lab last March established its Digital Capabilities Directorate to speed up its modernization pursuits and enable its scientists and engineers to explore and more efficiently collaborate via a growing suite of emerging technologies. The directorate fuses together former AFRL’s elements, like its Research Collaboration and Computing Directorate, as well as the lab’s former Bu...

Last December, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum with new guidance on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires agencies to offer equal access to electronic information and data for individuals with disabilities. Per the new memorandum, all agencies must deliver an accessible digital experience, establish programs and policies for digital accessibility, procure...

The Transportation Security Administration recently announced the launch of its IT Lift Cell Innovation Lab, a space through which TSA’s network of innovative thinkers can put their ideas to work. The lab is meant to be a “Apple Genius Bar meets TSA IT,” according to the agency, and a place where the department’s IT office can host workshops, open hours and meetings for employee brainstorming sess...

Agency adoption of zero trust architecture was mandated by the Biden administration’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and OMB memo M-22-09, which created a strategy for its adoption. By the end of this fiscal year, agencies are required to meet some level of zero trust adoption. But the federal government is just one part of the larger U.S. public sector, and with vast amou...

Federal agencies, as well as other entities across the private sector, are at a major disadvantage when it comes to protecting their sensitive information and systems from bad actors. Hackers are getting more sophisticated, and cyberattacks are increasing in quantity and severity. And, the vast majority of the time, humans are the weakest link in cyberattack vectors. A new program out of the Intel...

For nearly a year now, the adoption of artificial intelligence has been all the rage in the government space. But still, as you’ve seen in FedScoop’s reporting, there has been hesitation by some agencies to fully embrace the emerging technology because of unknown risks and fear of issues with safety, security and privacy. Meagan Metzger, the founder and CEO of Dcode, joins me now to discuss the st...

The Department of Justice works with highly sensitive sets of information and because of that, the bar to secure it is much higher than other civilian agencies. As CIO, Melinda Rogers is highly focused on delivering a zero-trust security architecture across the department to better secure its national security systems and the information within them. Rogers recently spoke with my colleague Wyatt K...

Last week, House leaders formally announced the creation of a new bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence — an effort that marks a major step forward in efforts to legislate with representation from both parties. Rep. Yvette Clarke — a Democrat from New York who was one of the first members of Congress to call out the potential harms of artificial intelligence — is one of 24 members on th...

For several years now, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been exploring how AI can lead to better outcomes for the veterans it serves. The National AI Institute has been an essential part of that, most recently leading tech sprints in conjunction with last year’s AI executive order aiming to reduce healthcare worker burnout. Joining me to discuss that and much more is Dr. Gil Alterovitz, the...