On this episode, host Dave Wennergren talks with more winners of ACT-IAC’s 2023 Innovation Awards and a leading industry voice on innovation.

Guests:

Eric Hackathorn, senior developer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Systems Lab in Boulder, Colorado.

Rafael de Ameller, NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory Lead, I.M. Systems Group Inc.

Juan Pablo Hurtado, NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab, I.M. Systems Group, Inc.

Todd Hager, vice president at Macro Solutions and Industry Chair for the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest.

Additional Resources:

Register for the ACT-IAC Health Innovation Summit

Learn more about ACT-IAC and the ACT-IAC Innovation Awards

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On this episode of Accelerating Government, host Dave Wennergren talks with some of the winners of ACT-IAC’s 2023 Innovation Awards.

Guests:

Dr. Sean Oliver, Senior Physicist at the Quantum Sensing Group of the Emerging Engineering and Physical Sciences Department at MITRE.

Dr. Kenny Gross, Senior Distinguished Engineer, AI Solutions Architect and Researcher with the System Dynamics Characterization and Control Laboratory at Oracle’s San Diego Physical Sciences Research Center.

 Additional Resources:

Register for the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference

Register for the ACT-IAC Health Innovation Summit

Learn more about ACT-IAC and the ACT-IAC Innovation Awards

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On this episode, we discuss DEIA efforts in government and some upcoming tech opportunities.

Guests:

Janice Underwood, Government-wide Chief Diversity Officer, Office of Personnel Management.

Gundeep Ahluwalia, Chief Information Officer, Department of Labor and Executive Vice President of the American Council for Technology.

 Additional Resources:

To learn more about the Federal Tech Day 2023:  Federal Tech Day 2023 (vfairs.com)

Read the Government-wide DEIA Annual Report

Register for the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference 

Register for the ACT-IAC Climate Change Summit

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website

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On this episode, we discuss technology efforts in support of the government’s climate change initiatives.

Guests:

Pete Tseronis, founder and CEO, Dots and Bridges LLC, former Department of Energy CTO, former Department of Education CTO and an industry Leader of the ACT-IAC Climate Change Working Group.

Vera Ashworth, chief of staff for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) CIO at the Department of Commerce and a Government Leader of the ACT-IAC Climate Change Working Group.

Amy Norgren Salfi, chief strategy officer at Excel Technologies, LLC and an industry Leader for the ACT-IAC Climate Change Working Group.

Darby Chellis Bade, vice president, EPA Programs and Executive Lead for Climate Change Initiatives at General Dynamics Information Technology, and an industry leader of the ACT-IAC Climate Change Working Group.

Additional Resources:

To register for the 2023 Climate Change Summit:  https://web.cvent.com/event/3dd428bd-5b84-4e7b-91b3-ba8689f0d8b6/summary

To register for the 2023 Shared Services Summit:   https://web.cvent.com/event/62a36576-da02-4b3f-875c-4e5eb01c8554/summary

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

Sustainability.gov website:  https://www.sustainability.gov/

Climate.gov website:  https://www.climate.gov/

EPA Sustainable Marketplace:  https://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts/recommendations-specifications-standards-and-ecolabels-federal-purchasing

The post Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 25: Climate Change first appeared on Federal News Network.

On this episode, we discuss digital transformation efforts in government and a recently released government-wide guide to cybersecurity compliance.

Guests:

Brian McElyea, Cyber Strategist at Peraton  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-brian-mcelyea-826510209/

Cindy Good, Acting Director, Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation at Bureau of the Fiscal Service https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-orellana-good-0b168b32/

Todd Hager, Vice President at Macro Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/thagerdc/

 Additional Resources:

To read the ACT-IAC Supplier Cybersecurity Compliance Playbook:  https://www.actiac.org/documents/supplier-cybersecurity-compliance-playbook

To register for the Digital Transformation Summit:  https://web.cvent.com/event/96fec1f1-13a7-4a87-bdcb-a5c06751b502/summary

To submit a nomination for the 2023 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards (closes March 1^st):  https://www.actiac.org/2023_innovation_awards_nomination?__vbtrk=MTM1NzY0OjY3ODE2ODUzOm5ld3NsZXR0ZXI=&_uax=MTM1NzY0OjY3ODE2ODUz

To listen to The Buzz podcast, to include the “How Government Built This” series:  https://www.actiac.org/buzz

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

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On this episode, we talk with two former government leaders on the challenges and opportunities facing the federal market as we look forward to 2023.

Guests:

Maria Roat, Owner, MA Roat Consulting, former Federal Deputy CIO and Past American Council for Technology President

Robert Shea, Partner, Guidehouse, former Associate Director at OMB and former Chair of the Board for the National Academy of Public Administration.

 Additional Resources:

Learn more about ACT-IAC

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Guests:

Laura Stanton, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category (ITC), in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and Government Chair for ACT-IAC’s 2022 Imagine Nation ELC conference.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-stanton-9457226/

Melvin Brown, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and a member of the American Council for Technology’s Executive Committee.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melvinbrownii/

Sudha Venkateswaran, Vice President at Alpha Omega Integration, LLC and a long-time ACT-IAC volunteer leader.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudha-vijay-venkateswaran-pmp-csm-safe-agilist-a162b71/

Jonathan Benett, Technical Director, Digital Government Solutions at Adobe and a member of the Industry Advisory Council’s Executive Committee.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-benett-1061446/

Additional Resources:

Link to ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards press release:  https://www.actiac.org/documents/act-iac-announces-2022-leadership-awards

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

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On this episode, we talk with three of the outstanding federal technology leaders who recently received ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards.

Guests:

Maria Roat, Owner, MA Roat Consulting and former Federal Deputy CIO and Past ACT President

Sam Navarro, Customer Services Director for the Centers of Excellence at the General Services Administration (GSA)

Anne Armstrong, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, GovExec

Additional Resources:

ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards press release

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit their website.

The post Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 21 – 2022 ACT-IAC Leadership Awards – Part 1 first appeared on Federal News Network.

On this episode, we talk with technology executives Richard Spires, Margie Graves and Dave Powner about the recently released ACT-IAC report: “Recommendations for Evolving the FITARA Scorecard.”

Guests:

Richard Spires, Principal at Richard A. Spires Consulting, former CIO at both DHS and IRS, former Vice Chair of the Federal CIO Council and former Chair of the Industry Advisory Council.

Margie Graves, Senior Fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government, former Federal Deputy CIO and current Chair of the Industry Advisory Council.

Dave Powner, Executive Director of the Center for Data-Driven Policy at The MITRE Corporation and former Director of Information Technology Management Issues at GAO.

Additional Resources:

Read the FITARA report.

Learn more about ACT-IAC.

The post Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 20 – FITARA Enhancements first appeared on Federal News Network.

On this episode, we talk with IRS executive Ken Corbin, long-time government and industry CX leader Martha Dorris, and industry executive Angy Peterson, on the power and promise of on-going customer experience efforts in the federal market and ACT-IAC’s upcoming CX Summit.

Guests:

Martha Dorris, Founder of Dorris Consulting International and former Deputy Associate Administrator for Citizen Services at the General Services Administration (GSA).  https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-dorris-798b3b7/

Ken Corbin, Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Government Chair of ACT-IAC’s CX Summit.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-corbin-7ab67213/

Angy Peterson, Vice President at Granicus and the Industry Chair of ACT-IAC’s CX Summit.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/angypeterson/

Additional Resources:

To register for the 2022 ACT-IAC CX Summit on November 15^th at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, you can use this link:  https://web.cvent.com/event/17575e87-e04f-4a69-b128-907ef48b0b0b/summary

To register for the 2022 Imagine Nation ELC Conference (October 23-25, Hershey, PA), you can use this link:  www.actiac.org/elc .

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

To learn more about the Service to the Citizen Awards, click here:  https://www.servicetothecitizen.org/

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On this episode, we talked with the General Services Administration’s Laura Stanton and Dev Technology Group CEO Kendall Holbrook about the federal technology market and this October’s ACT-IAC Imagine Nation ELC Conference.

Stanton is the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, and the government chair for ACT-IAC’s 2022 Imagine Nation ELC conference. Holbrook is the Industry Chair for ACT-IAC’s 2022 Imagine Nation ELC conference.

Register here for the 2022 Imagine Nation ELC Conference, which takes place on Oct. 23-25 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and use the code LEADERSHIP (all caps) by Sept. 1 to receive $25 off the registration price.

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit https://www.actiac.org/.

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On this episode, we talk with Federal CIO Clare Martorana about the recently released Federal IT Operating Plan and hear from two more of the ACT-IAC 2022 Innovation Champion Award winners.

Guests:

Clare Martorana, Federal Chief Information Officer.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/claremartorana/

John Hutchison, Assistant Operations Research Analyst at the Argonne National Laboratory.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-k-hutchison/

Ronie Namata, Contracting Officer at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Additional Resources:

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

To read the Federal Government’s IT Operating Plan, visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Federal-IT-Operating-Plan_June-2022.pdf

To learn more about the 2022 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards:  https://www.actiac.org/act-iac-emerging-technology-and-innovation-awards-2022

The post Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 17 – Federal IT Operating Plan & Innovation first appeared on Federal News Network.

On this episode, we talk some outstanding federal technology leaders who were “in the room where it happened” when the eGov Act was enacted 20 years ago —what did it entail, what’s been accomplished and where do we go from here.

Guests:

Karen Evans, Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute and Former Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology at OMB.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/karensevans/

Mark Forman, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Optimization and Transformation, Dynamic Integrated Services and former Administrator, Office of E-Government and Information Technology at OMB.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/markforman1/

Robert Shea, National Managing Principal, Public Policy at Grant Thornton and former Associate Director at OMB.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjshea/

Dave Powner, Executive Director, Center for Data-Driven Policy at The MITRE Corporation and former Director of Information Technology Management Issues at GAO.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-powner-83079214/

Additional Resources:

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website: https://www.actiac.org/

The post Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 16 – 20th Anniversary of the eGov Act first appeared on Federal News Network.

On this episode, we talked with the General Services Administration’s Sam Navarro about federal supply chain risk management efforts and hear from two of the ACT-IAC 2022 Innovation Champion Award winners: Cesar Tavares from Octo, and D.J. Dart from INADEV Corporation. Navarro is the senior adviser to the IT Category Manager at GSA. Tavares is senior director, Emerging Technology at Octo Consulting. Dart is the chief strategy officer at INADEV Corporation.

Go online to learn more about ACT-IAC and the 2022 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards.

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On this episode, we talk with Gary Washington, Malcolm Harden and Todd Hager about innovation and the adoption of emerging technologies in the federal market.

Guests:

Gary Washington is the Chief Information Officer for the US Department of Agriculture and the President of the American Council for Technology.

Todd Hager is Vice President at Macro Solutions and the Industry Chair for the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest.

Malcolm Harden is the Federal Partnerships Leader at Microsoft and the Executive Vice Chairman of the Industry Advisory Council.

Additional Resources:

Register for the 2022 ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference, May 22-24.

Learn more about ACT-IAC’s National Use Case & Solutions Library (NUCSL).

To learn more about ACT-IAC, please visit our website.

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