ATARC Federal IT Newscast

Leader experience is a vital part of the government’s employee experience. How do leaders model a culture of growth and learning? When new isn’t always easy, how might we break change down into more manageable pieces? Matisha, Nina, and Chris discuss what it means to create space for learning (and failure) at work, frontlines to C-suite. Learning is far more than annual compliance training. Self-management, self-awareness, and self-reflection is where it begins for leaders, teams, and organizations. The DNA of healthy organizations is connection, communication, and collaboration. Are there other ways to listen to employees that build on the hot topics outlined in the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey? Small steps drive big change — what power lies in prototyping and marketing new ways of working while collecting input along the way? Nina Bianchi: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bianchininafuture/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NinaFuture Christopher Crist: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-crist-a1544a135/

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.

Today’s guest is Airis McCottry Gill, the executive director for employee experience and organizational management at the VA. Airis discusses authenticity at work, and the importance of building psychological safety and trust in organizations. She discusses the VA’s employee journey map and the E-signals they’re designing to improve the EX by using the human-centered design blueprint they used to transform the veteran’s experience office. Link to VEO: Employee Experience - Veterans Experience Office (VEO) (va.gov) Ran out of time during the conversation to discuss this with Airis, so passing along more information regarding “Identity Insights”, the Federal Government’s first intersectional approach to examine employee experience, recently highlighted in Chief Human Capital Officers Council’s 2022 Federal Workforce Priorities Report (2022 Federal Workforce Priorities Report (chcoc.gov)): Identity Insights In 2021, VEO's Employee Experience & Organizational Management (EXOM) Directorate, in partnership with the Office of Resolution Management, Diversity & Inclusion (ORMDI), launched Identity Insights, the federal government's first intersectional approach to examine employee experience (EX). Focused on identifying pain points that employees attribute to one or more of the identities that they hold, the pilot phase engaged employees across eight identity groups that have been either historically underrepresented and/or faced discrimination and bias in the workplace: American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Hispanic, Individuals Born between 1946 and 1964, Individuals with Disabilities, LGBTQ+, and Women. By capturing quantitative data to explore the role that identity plays in EX, Identity Insights is a pivotal step forward to driving meaningful change rooted in data from our workforce. Additional information here: 2022 Federal Workforce Priorities Report (chcoc.gov)

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.