A podcast covering the latest news & trends facing top government leaders on topics such as technology, management & workforce. Hosted by Billy Mitchell on FedScoop and released every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
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Today on The Daily Scoop Podcast, Capt. Brian Erickson was appointed as the U.S. Coast Guard’s first ever chief data officer in 2021. Not long after that, the service added artificial intelligence to his portfolio, making him also the first chief data and AI officer for the Coast Guard. Now Erickson has been called on by the Department of Homeland …
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CISA leads its first tabletop exercise for AI cybersecurityAnd, lawmakers question Microsoft president over China ties, repeated breachesPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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The VA extends its EHR contract with Oracle Cerner for another 11 months. And, a scathing Senate report on regulating hedge funds’ use of AI.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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There’s a pair of new bipartisan Senate bills out this week that looks to foster responsible AI adoption in two key areas: federal acquisition and small businesses.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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GSA takes new steps to secure the software acquisition process And, the White House goes against the idea of an Army Drone CorpsPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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The Department of Veterans Affairs, like many federal agencies, is facing a tightening budget landscape. Because of that, resources to support modernization and emerging tech adoption can be hard to come by. FedScoop reporter Caroline Nihill spoke recently with Charles Worthington, the dual-hatted chief technology officer and chief AI officer for t…
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Today on The Daily Scoop Podcast… from The Scoop News Group.Pentagon CIO John Sherman is leaving government And, Microsoft rolls back a highly criticized AI security tool.The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, …
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IRS’s Direct File is on the chopping block in a 2025 appropriations bill and the FBI obtains 7,000 LockBit ransomware decryption keys.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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House Republicans want to slash funds for election security. And, the Army is in line to get a new network chief.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Today on the Daily Scoop Podcast from the Scoop News Group, How the VA is wrestling with digital transformation amid an austere budget environment. And the DIU looks to get another big funding boost in 2025.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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As federal agencies move full-scale to adopt artificial intelligence technologies in coordination with the 2023 Biden administration AI executive order, it might seem that more secretive intelligence agencies like the CIA would be less forthcoming about their work in the space. Sure, there are some things the agency can’t share and certain requirem…
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Senator Joni Ernst seeks information about SBA'sS artificial intelligence use cases and IT work and a House Republican sounds the alarm on cyber threats to the food and agriculture sector.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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IRS makes direct file permanent and union workers say a commerce department agency is on the brink of collapse amid a telework dispute.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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The Army has awarded Palantir a $480 million deal to support its Maven Smart System prototype, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The U.S. military has recently been using this type of artificial intelligence technology in the Central Command area of responsibility in the Middle East. The Maven Smart System uses AI generated algorithms and memory le…
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Today on the Daily Scoop podcast from the Scoop News group, OPM's chief pushes for telework flexibilities for the cyber workforce and inside the army tool used to support Biden's AI executive order.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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GSA teases a new open source tool for federal CX efforts and the FCC pushes new disclosure requirements for A I in political ads.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Gen. Jim Mattis, the former secretary of defense during the start of the Trump administration, made a special appearance Wednesday at DefenseTalks. And while he touched on a number of things, from leadership to politics and the military’s adoption of emerging technology, he made some pretty critical comments about the state of the nation amid the u…
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The house passes a bill in support of the TMF and GSA appoints tech experts for a new fed ramp advisory group.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Earlier this month, the RSA Conference in San Francisco drew crowds of tens of thousands of cybersecurity experts and practitioners, including a huge cohort of cyber officials from the federal government. One of those was Bailey Bickley, the chief of defense industrial base cybersecurity at the NSA.I caught up with Bickley during some of her downti…
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NSF Funding Cuts Present a National Security Issue and new TMF investments boost agency projects and generative A I digital service delivery and accessibility.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Just recently, federal agencies met some of the key requirements set forth in the Biden administration’s AI executive order that were to be completed within the first 180 days, signaling strong momentum for the federal government establishing a strong foundation of AI development and responsible use.Nick Sinai, former U.S. deputy CTO during the Oba…
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The US and China are Meeting This Week to Talk AI SafetyPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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The Pentagon launches new initiatives for a to reciprocity and digital modernization and the USDS touts its impact over the past year.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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More than 60 companies join CISA’s pledge to be Secure by Design And, Chuck Schumer says an AI roadmap is coming soon from the Senate AI working group.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Today on the Daily Scoop podcast from the Scoop News group, a supercomputer sandbox for testing federal AI and evaluating the nation's cyber security posture.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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With all of the critical cyberattacks executed through the software supply chain in recent years, you’re sure to have heard about SBOMs, or software bills of materials, which are essentially ingredients lists of the components that make up a piece of software. The Biden administration in its 2021 cybersecurity executive order introduced new guidanc…
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The IRS says it could run out of money to support modernization And, U.S. Cyber Command adds to its top brassThe Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.…
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NASA Pushes Back on Gao’s Cyber Recommendations for Spacecraft and trade groups say CISA's incident reporting requirements go too far.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Today on the Daily Scoop podcast from the scoop news group data stolen in the change health care attack likely included us service members and the White House encourages agencies to turn towards skilled based hiring for cyber and tech jobs.The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.…
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President Biden’s executive order on AI, issued last October, set federal agencies on path to consider the adoption of generative AI in a safe and secure manner. While some agencies have expressed caution in using genAI, the EO discourages agencies from imposing broad general bans or blocks on agency use of generative AI and instead encourages them…
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The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon.If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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By the end of the year, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to launch an automated vulnerability warning program to alert organizations that are running software with vulnerabilities being exploited by ransomware gangs, the agency’s director, Jen Easterly, said this week. Currently running in a pilot phase, the program is man…
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If you were unable to make it to last week’s AITalks, you truly missed out on a special day. The first-ever event featured the top leaders in AI from across the public sector. However, we have a special treat today if you didn’t make it.I hosted a dynamic panel on the role of the federal chief AI officer with two of the first federal CAIOs appointe…
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Scientists Must Be Empowered, Not Replaced by A I and the US charges Iranian hackers who targeted the Treasury and State Departments.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Karen Johnson Google Next '24 by The Daily Scoop PodcastPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Amina Al Sherif - Google Next '24 by The Daily Scoop PodcastPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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If you were unable to make it to last week’s AITalks, you truly missed out on a special day. The first-ever event featured the top leaders in AI from across the public sector. However, we have a special treat today if you didn’t make it.I hosted a dynamic panel on the role of the federal chief AI officer with two of the first federal CAIOs appointe…
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GSA wants to be the leader in Federal Generative AI by The Daily Scoop PodcastPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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AITalks, the premier event where top government leaders, tech innovators, and industry experts converge to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the public sector space. During the daylong event, you heard about cutting-edge AI applications revolutionizing government operations — from cybersecurity to citizen services —…
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Yesterday, Scoop News Group produced the U I Path on tour public sector event at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC.IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel kicked off the event talking about how automation has enhanced his agency's operations.Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Google's Chris Hein at Next '24Por The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Today… on The Daily Scoop Podcast… from The Scoop News Group.OPM’s tech-friendly director steps downAnd, inside the debate on banning ransomware paymentsPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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Today we have a special interview recorded from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, which last week was home of Google Cloud Next 2024. While there, I had the tremendous opportunity to speak at length with Karen Dahut, Google Public Sector CEO.During our conversation, we covered a lot of ground, taking in all of the announcements from …
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Google's Leigh Palmer on the need for transparency in public sector AI by The Daily Scoop PodcastPor The Daily Scoop Podcast
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The Daily Scoop Podcast is available on all the podcast platforms. If you’ve already rated the podcast on your platform of choice… thanks! High ratings and good reviews of the show… help more people find it.The Daily Scoop Podcast is a production of the Scoop News Group in Washington D-C. Adam Butler and Carlin Fisher help put this show together… a…
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It’s been 13 years since FedRAMP was created as the federal government’s cloud security compliance program. And like any federal technology program that’s been around that long, its mission and the services it set out to provide in 2011 are very different from what agencies need today. In particular, the FedRAMP program office recently wrote in a n…
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Kiersten Todt has worked on just about every hot-button cybersecurity issue you can imagine. Currently the CEO of Liberty Group Ventures, her most recent role in government was as the chief of staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As a Senate staffer, she drafted key parts of the legislation that created the Department of H…
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Since 2016, the Department of Defense and other national security agencies have partnered with the Hacking 4 Defense program allowing students at universities across the U.S. and the globe to address critical problems facing the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. Launched as a pilot out of Stanford, the program has expanded to mo…
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The FedScoop news team is growing … sort of. We recently promoted our editorial fellow Caroline Nihill to a permanent member of the reporting team. You’ve likely seen Caroline’s work since joining the team last summer, covering developments in AI, shift in the Technology Modernization Fund and opening FedScoop’s aperture wider on Capitol Hill.But n…
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Since 2019, Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights has issued annual reports on the top trends transforming government. Tuesday, Deloitte issued its latest report for 2024, in which it presents the eight trends propelling the 10x government of the future.Bill Eggers is the executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights and the a…
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