ATARC Federal IT Newscast

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)

During this Cloud and Coffee session, Ryan will share his experience being being a part of SBA’s first cloud project (Certify.SBA.gov), assisting SBA with their scale from 0 cloud to 4 FISMA classified systems in AWS, architecting the account structure and enterprise setup, and implementing server-less technology on SBA.gov and then spreading it out to the 4x other systems.

ATARC's Quantum Working Group hears from Eric Miller, Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, on The Quantum Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges for Canada from his published October, 2021 policy paper (download here).

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)