Government Matters

Indu Garg, human capital category manager at the Office of Personnel Management, discusses how OPM and GSA are using human capital category management to increase government efficiency.

Now that the government has been funded for another year, Congress has moved on to appropriations. Sarah Ferris and David Hawkings sit down with Francis Rose to talk about what has to be done in the next few weeks in order to make sure the money goes where it should.

Stan Soloway, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense & Acquisition Reform and CEO of Celero Strategies, joins Government Matters to discuss Other Transaction Authority, a special process that allows the Department of Defense to award acquisition contracts to companies providing experimental or prototype technologies.

Indu Garg, human capital category manager at the Office of Personnel Management, discusses how OPM and GSA are using human capital category management to increase government efficiency.

Now that the government has been funded for another year, Congress has moved on to appropriations. Sarah Ferris and David Hawkings sit down with Francis Rose to talk about what has to be done in the next few weeks in order to make sure the money goes where it should.

Stan Soloway, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense & Acquisition Reform and CEO of Celero Strategies, joins Government Matters to discuss Other Transaction Authority, a special process that allows the Department of Defense to award acquisition contracts to companies providing experimental or prototype technologies.

Lieutenant General Gina Grosso, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services at the U.S. Air Force, discusses changes that need to be made to the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act in order to recruit and retain the next generation of military officers.

Chip Fulghum, deputy undersecretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses how his agency is dealing with an unintended side effect of the short-term budget bill passed in early February, and how government offices are confronting their ability to spend what was supposed to be their yearly budget in the next few months.

On this packed edition of the Federal Beat roundtable, reporters discuss the Department of Energy’s planned cyber office, federal websites not meeting HTTPS standards on deadline and “Operation Gladiator Shield.” Panelists include NextGov cybersecurity correspondent Joseph Marks, executive editor Jason Miller of Federal News Radio, and staff writer Mark Rockwell from FCW.

In the proposed FY19 budget the White House recently sent to Congress, an item in the Department of Defense's section stands out: $8.6 billion to spend next year on cybersecurity. We dive in and examine what this figure entails.

Lieutenant General Gina Grosso, deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services at the U.S. Air Force, discusses changes that need to be made to the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act in order to recruit and retain the next generation of military officers.

Chip Fulghum, deputy undersecretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses how his agency is dealing with an unintended side effect of the short-term budget bill passed in early February, and how government offices are confronting their ability to spend what was supposed to be their yearly budget in the next few months.

On this packed edition of the Federal Beat roundtable, reporters discuss the Department of Energy’s planned cyber office, federal websites not meeting HTTPS standards on deadline and “Operation Gladiator Shield.” Panelists include NextGov cybersecurity correspondent Joseph Marks, executive editor Jason Miller of Federal News Radio, and staff writer Mark Rockwell from FCW.

In the proposed FY19 budget the White House recently sent to Congress, an item in the Department of Defense's section stands out: $8.6 billion to spend next year on cybersecurity. We dive in and examine what this figure entails.

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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.

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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has worked to become a line of defense not only for our physical borders, but our cyberspace ones as well. Government Matters spoke with Rear Admiral Kevin Lunday, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command at the West 2018 conference in San Diego.

Frank Kendall, former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics and senior advisor for the International Security program at CSIS, discusses the potential for the trend of increasing defense budgets to reverse.

Inside the Pentagon editors Tony Bertuca and Justin Doubleday join Francis Rose to talk about the latest news from the Department of Defense.

Topics discussed on this edition of the Pentagon Beat include the National Defense Strategy, the DoD’s upcoming cloud computing industry day, and the Senate confirmation of new positions at the department.

The U.S. Coast Guard has worked to become a line of defense not only for our physical borders, but our cyberspace ones as well. Government Matters spoke with Rear Admiral Kevin Lunday, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command at the West 2018 conference in San Diego.

Frank Kendall, former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics and senior advisor for the International Security program at CSIS, discusses the potential for the trend of increasing defense budgets to reverse.

Inside the Pentagon editors Tony Bertuca and Justin Doubleday join Francis Rose to talk about the latest news from the Department of Defense.

Topics discussed on this edition of the Pentagon Beat include the National Defense Strategy, the DoD’s upcoming cloud computing industry day, and the Senate confirmation of new positions at the department.

In this edition of Government Matters:

Nick Sinai, former U.S. deputy CTO and venture partner at Insight Venture Partners, discusses the expensive problem of improper payments, and the possible ways to fight it using data.

Bill Greenwalt, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, sits down to discuss the details of the Department of Defense’s plan to split Acquisition, Technology and Logistics into two separate offices, which the Senate recently confirmed two undersecretaries to lead.

Kevin Kelly, chair of the INSA Technology & Innovation Council discusses his organization’s “classified science fair” and the expanded role that private industry plays in government R&D.

In this edition of Government Matters:

Nick Sinai, former U.S. deputy CTO and venture partner at Insight Venture Partners, discusses the expensive problem of improper payments, and the possible ways to fight it using data.

Bill Greenwalt, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, sits down to discuss the details of the Department of Defense’s plan to split Acquisition, Technology and Logistics into two separate offices, which the Senate recently confirmed two undersecretaries to lead.

Kevin Kelly, chair of the INSA Technology & Innovation Council discusses his organization’s “classified science fair” and the expanded role that private industry plays in government R&D.