
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

Oct 26, 2020 • 15min
Change Agents in the Federal Space with Christopher Crist, Chief of Operations and Development (DevOps) at US Transportation Command
To provide a podcast as a platform to share the journey of Digital Transformation/ Expand upon passion and purpose and get a message out to the federal government / Audience to learn more about digital and IT transformation with evolving technology and a focus on DevOps.

Oct 23, 2020 • 1h 1min
Network Modernization in the Context of TIC 3.0
A panel discussion on network modernization in relation to the challenges of delivering enterprise-wide security and performance under the new normal. Agency leaders examine the limitations of traditional Wide Area Networks, and the benefits of redesigning WAN infrastructure in the context of TIC 3.0 guidance. What are the advantages of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and what can be gained from smarter connectivity across distributed environments – data centers, clouds, branch offices, and teleworkers? Learn about SD-WAN enabled cost savings, zero touch provisioning new branches, critical security functionality, intent-based networking, and streamlined network operations. Join us for this collaborative discussion.

Oct 20, 2020 • 41min
Quantum Investments and Policy Impact
As we move into 2021, we bring with us national investment momentum towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Information Sciences (QIS). With his most recent announcement of over $600 million dedicated to QIS, President Trump is chartering new territory and establishing a policy of aggressive R&D in future technologies. By likening the effort to past American achievements of landing on the moon.and developing the internet, President Trump seeks to garner a national strategy that will bring together public, private, for-profit, and non-profit organizations. Join us on this discussion about what’s next and policy impacts to R&D efforts.

Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 6min
TIC 3.0: Let the Evolution Begin
A collaborative panel discussion around the already evidenced and future evolution of TIC 3.0 – and where agencies stand in their confidence to take steps towards its implementation. What started as a higher level “Cloud Smart” adoption strategy, has progressed into an enhanced set of protection frameworks. Yet the guidance remains dynamic, adaptable and descriptive to accommodate the evolving cloud, mobility and remote working technologies as well as varying levels of individual agencies’ risk tolerance. Hear from large and small agency cloud adoption leaders about their distinct use cases, including remote user access, modernization of branch offices, and network modernization. Join the experts in their discussion of navigating the various cloud strategies and best path forward.

Oct 14, 2020 • 40min
NSF Convergence Accelerator – AI Innovation
National scale problems require the complete integration of multiple fields on knowledge and joint effort between academia, industry, government, and non-profits to solve them The Convergence Accelerator is a one and half year old program at the National Science Foundation that exists to fund the development of solutions to these problems.
NSF Convergence Accelerator – AI Innovation
The Convergence Accelerators track topics are based on NSF’s Ten Big Ideas and White House’s Industries of the Future. Topics are selected through grass roots efforts, engaging academics and stakeholders from government, industry, and non-profits to define the solutions sets and entities and knowledge domains necessary to address these issues.
Now into its second Cohort, track topics include: Open Knowledge Networks (OKN) (2019), Future of Work (2019), Quantum Technology (2020), and AI Innovation (2020). One of nine projects selected for Phase II of the program from 41 Phase II projects, the Precision Medicine OKN from UCSF will incorporate billions of factual relationships among biomedical concepts, providing a discovery engine that will enable doctors, researchers, the pharmaceutical industry and the citizen scientist to explore biomedicine in its whole might. Dr. Sergio Baranzini, the Principal Investigator for this project, will discuss how they will improve medicine, producing better outcomes for us all.

Oct 12, 2020 • 1h 6min
Cloud Migration: An Important Shift to Strengthen Federal Cloud Infrastructure
An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal government and for improved public facing services.

Oct 12, 2020 • 4h 21min
NASA ATARC Digital Transformation Virtual Event
In order to explore the Moon, Mars, and the universe beyond, an organization must be at the forefront of digital transformation and the adoption of new technologies. Join this event to see how NASA is able to achieve its advancements of new technology through agency wide coordination, and the encouragement of best practices. This event will focus on the digital advancement of NASA’s systems and how they are able to succeed in digital transformation in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), model-based everything (MBx), culture & workforce (C+W), collaboration, data, more!

Oct 7, 2020 • 1h 21min
Applications of Robotic Process Automation
This panel will explore lesson’s learned, common misconceptions, the value proposition, challenges, and use cases related to the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) journey.

Oct 7, 2020 • 60min
Quantum Risk Management Roundtable for the Board of Directors
Shareholders have great expectations for boards to take an active role in managing risks. Yet, boards only spend 9% of their time on risks. A quantum-aware board of directors must become the new standard. Consequently, board members should have an understanding of how this technology works to help ensure that the organizations they oversee become quantum resilient. Today, we have assembled an elite group of quantum computing experts to highlight the importance of quantum risk preparedness from a global perspective.

Oct 2, 2020 • 1h 10min
Data Analytics: Challenges and Solutions in the COVID-19 Era
An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal government and for improved public facing services.