On this edition of Government Matters--

In everywhere except defense, the White House’s budget request has slashed funding for government R&D. Reggie Brothers, former undersecretary for science & technology at the Department of Homeland Security and executive vice-president & CTO at Peraton discusses what this means for the industry players, and who will have to pick up the slack.

Richard Spires, CEO of Learning Tree International, discusses the FBI’s request for information from cloud services providers. The request indicates that the agency wishes to purchase “software as a service.”

Kathy Conrad, director of digital government for Accenture Federal Services, talks about the ways AI might help agencies complete tasks and streamline workflows in the future.