
ATARC Federal IT Newscast
The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) is a leading organization dedicated to fostering collaboration between government, academia, and industry to drive the adoption and integration of emerging technologies within the federal government. Established to bridge the gap between these critical sectors, ATARC provides a unique platform for technology leaders and innovators to share knowledge, explore new ideas, and solve pressing challenges.
Latest episodes

Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 14min
The DevSecOps Journey – Are We There Yet?
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.

Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 1min
TIC 3.0: The Road to Zero Trust
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.

Dec 8, 2020 • 22min
DevSecOps Coffee Chat with Amber Chaudhry, Customer Experience Lead at SBA.
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.

Dec 4, 2020 • 34min
Blockchain Innovations for Policymakers
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.

Dec 3, 2020 • 14min
CISA as Cyber QSMO: a Look Back at First Year Achievements
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.

Dec 2, 2020 • 48min
GSA Digital Worker Credentialing Handbook
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.

Nov 23, 2020 • 30min
DevSecOps Coffee Chat with CIO at USPTO, Jamie Holocombe
DevSecOps Coffee Chat with CIO at USPTO, Jamie Holocombe

Nov 20, 2020 • 1h 10min
Connecting People & Supporting Missions: Expanding Mobile to the Edge
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.

Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 4min
Agency Readiness for Predictive Analytics
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.

Nov 16, 2020 • 29min
The DevOps Journey with CTO of Jasper Solutions, Praneeth Reddy
Join us for this week's episode of our DevSecOps Coffee Chat and we speak with Praneeth Reddy, CTO at Jasper Solutions. He shares with us his Journey with Devops, key information and advice that you can use along your own DevOps journey within your agency or organization.
Books mentioned: Continuous Delivery, Deployment and Automation by Jez Humble and The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim and Accelerate: The Science of DevOps by Nicole Forsgren.