ATARC Federal IT Newscast

On today’s episode of Doing Tech Better in Government, we sat down with Scott Simpson, Digital Transformation Lead for the Department of Homeland Security. Scott has played an impactful role in advising and ushering people into a new era of innovation through coaching and leadership, and shared with us some of the tools his team uses to achieve this. Listen in to learn more about how their work streamlines evaluation processes, and how important it is to make sure people are comfortable with these new methods of innovating so they can properly execute them without fear or discomfort.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with special guest Rob Vietmeyer, Chief Software Officer, Department of Defense as they discuss the evolution of cloud adoption in the DoD; from MilCloud to JWCC to OCONUS Cloud and Edge clouds, the importance of cloud parity and the adoption of key commercial capabilities in the DoD, and the adoption of DevSecOps and its significance.

On this episode of Mobile & Cyber, we are joined by Kevin Gallo, Director of Technical Account Management in the Office of Enterprise Technology Solutions at GSA. He spoke a bit about his role there and its focus on customer-driven results when providing technical expertise. Stay tuned to hear more about the ways the federal government is adopting new capabilities in order to support functions like cloud computing, and the impacts modernization has on cybersecurity.

On today’s episode of Keeping US Agencies Ahead, we are joined by Daniel Stoll, Information Systems Security Officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Daniel sat down with us to discuss the changing nature of cybersecurity as a result of remote and hybrid work models, and the policies that are put in place in order for agencies to adopt a Zero Trust architecture. Listen in to learn more about how his work with the DOI relies on modernization to provide users with the best outcomes, and how that model is constantly evolving.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time featuring Pritesh Patel, CEO of Ad Hoc Research ad they discuss critical topics surrounding digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and digital twins.

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time with Dan Lorenc, CEO, ChainGuard as they discuss the challenges and struggles around software supply chain and take a deep dive on Dan's incredible contributions to the open source community with his projects like Minikube, Sigstore, Distroless and Wolfi.

Join this episode of In the Nic of time with Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate, Upbound, as they discuss what is going to disrupt the Infrastructure as Code world. What the future looks like, what to pay attention to, and how to better understand a control plane.

On this episode of ‘Doing Tech Better in Government’, we are joined by Matthew McAllister, Director of the Colorado Digital Service. He and his team work to create statewide resources that reshape the way state agencies approach all aspects of technology usage. Matthew shares his ideology around supporting change makers through digital consulting, and what they have yet to learn about how states can respond to different issues with the necessary technology.    Here’s where you can learn more about the team’s open positions: https://oit.colorado.gov/cds-open-positions

Join this episode of In the Nic of Time for an exciting Q & A from the audience.

Join us in this episode of Doing Tech Better in Government for a conversation with Dr. Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Gregurick has been a trailblazer in implementing and refining the necessary tools for scientific data storage, usage, and management. Stay tuned to hear more about her work with the STRIDES program as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of cloud computing as a resource for medical research, and the project she’s embarking on to fight childhood cancer.   To learn more about the programs Dr. Gregurick is working with, here are some links we encourage you to visit:    STRIDES: https://cloud.nih.gov/ Sequence Read Archive (SRA): https://datascience.nih.gov/data-ecosystem/sra Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST): https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL): https://anvilproject.org/