The Daily Scoop Podcast

Network modernization is a critical step for digital transformation at government agencies. Colten O’Malley, deputy commander at U.S. Army’s Command and Control Support Agency, explains how his agency is leveraging cloud technology and securing their network. As the White House recently rolled out its new National Cybersecurity Strategy, Department of Energy Chief Information Officer Ann Dunkin was in Croatia for a meeting of the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy and Climate Cooperation. A key pillar of the cyber strategy is to forge international partnerships to pursue shared goals. Dunkin, while overseas, explains her biggest takeaways from the National Cybersecurity Strategy. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

Agencies across government are all navigating various IT modernization and application modernization journeys. Technology leaders are looking for ways to collect, manage, and analyze vast amounts of data generated during this process. Department of Labor Chief Information Officer Gundeep Ahluwalia joined Scoop News Group’s Wyatt Kash to discuss how he is doing this at his organization, as well as making sure it’s done securely. Sean Connelly is senior cybersecurity architect and TIC program manager at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In this highlight from the Zero Trust Summit presented by CyberScoop, Connelly explains how various federal cyber guidance documents play a role in shaping government cybersecurity. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will be leveraging machine learning to make decisions on trusted users and devices for a more real-time zero trust model. USCIS Chief Information Security Officer Shane Barney said at a recent FedScoop event that his agency is going to be developing a more fluid and adaptive cybersecurity model. At the Zero Trust Summit produced by CyberScoop, Barney joined a panel with CGI’s Chris Lavergne moderated by Scoop News Group’s Mike Farrell to discuss the evolution of zero trust architecture across government. Executive Order 14028 turns two years old this May. The Biden Administration EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity has been a spark plug for federal agencies to develop formal zero trust architecture implementation plans and to prioritize the adoption of cloud technologies. Also at Zero Trust Summit, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CISO Robert Wood explains how the EO helped shape his organization’s cybersecurity strategy. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Biden Administration is rolling out its long-awaited national cybersecurity strategy. CyberScoop Senior Editor Elias Groll joins the podcast to discuss his three biggest takeaways from the new White House initiative. At last week’s Zero Trust Summit, Donald Coulter, senior science advisor for cybersecurity and zero trust in the office of the undersecretary in the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, and Terry Halvorsen, vice president of client development for U.S. Federal Market at IBM and former Chief Information Officer at the Department of Defense, discuss zero trust adoption across government. The Department of Justice is moving along on its Information Technology Strategic Plan. The plan for fiscal years 2022 through 2024 lays out five goals. One of those goals is elevating cybersecurity and implementing zero trust principles. Also Zero Trust Summit, Department of Justice CIO Melinda Rogers explains the cyber landscape her agency is following. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

As government workloads continue to move to the cloud, agencies are looking for security solutions from that cloud environment to the edge. Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal, tells Scoop News Group’s Wyatt Kash how agencies are securing the mission in today’s multicloud world. This interview is underwritten by Microsoft. A new White House cybersecurity strategy is on the way, according to Deputy National Cyber Director for Technology and Ecosystem Security Camille Stewart Gloster. At last week’s Zero Trust Summit, presented by CyberScoop, Stewart Gloster previewed the strategy with CyberScoop’s Tonya Reilly, and explained the role her office plays in shaping it. The federal government is continuing to focus on cyber collaboration between government agencies. Sharing systems data and log management is key to that relationship. In the closing keynote from the Zero Trust Summit, Federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha details how his team helps coordinate this collaboration across agencies. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Department of the Air Force will conduct its next “BRAVO” hackathon March 20 to 24, at HurlBurt Field in Florida. Prior BRAVO hackathons have resulted in prototypes and innovations that influence major Department of Defense programs. Stuart Wagner, chief digital transformation officer of the Air Force and Space Force, and Jimmy “Rev” Jones, lead program manager of the Air Force’s “STITCHES” warfighter application team, explain what their organization hopes to learn from these hackathons. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Internal Revenue Service still relies on legacy IT for critical day-to-day operations. According to the Government Accountability Office, over 30% of applications, 23% of software instances in use and 8% of hardware assets are considered legacy systems. Dave Hinchman, director with GAO's Information Technology and Cybersecurity team, explains what his team found at IRS and next steps the organization can take to continue their IT modernization journey. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Internal Revenue Service is undergoing a modernization plan to dispose of outdated IT systems which the agency relies on for day-to-day operations. Like all federal agencies, the IRS is moving in alignment with the Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud Smart strategy. Jonathan Benett, digital government solutions technical director at Adobe and former chief enterprise architect at the Department of Agriculture, explains how agencies should define legacy IT and how organizations can successfully move to modern systems. Agencies across government are working to make data more accessible internally and to the public. Laura Biven, data science technical lead in the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health and John Auerbach, senior vice president for public health at ICF and former director of intergovernmental and strategic affairs at CDC, discuss best practices for making more data available and usable. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has one of the first civilian software factories. USPTO uses the software factory to support a remote workforce of nearly 500 thousand employees and has shortened the development of programs from years to weeks Jamie Holcombe, chief information officer at U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Bob Stevens, vice president of public sector at GitLab, discuss the effort and how the DevSecOps approach is accelerating innovation across government. The Department of Health and Human Services has a nationwide network of regional and field offices across the country. The agency says more than 70% of its employees work outside the Washington, D.C. area. Gerald Caron, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, explains how his organization is leveraging a hybrid cloud architecture and securing their expanded perimeter. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.

The Army is currently executing its unified network plan with the goal of becoming a multi-domain capable force by 2028. The Army will support that network with a multi-cloud, multi-vendor hybrid approach. Lt. Gen. Bill Bender (USAF, ret.), senior vice president for customer excellence & government relations at Leidos and former chief information officer at the Air Force, explains how this approach will help Army get data to the edge and ensure their cloud environment is secure. The Defense Information Systems Agency has a new Data Strategy Implementation Plan which calls for DISA to leverage data as a center of gravity. The I-Plan places a key focus on data management. Rob Carey, president at Cloudera Government Solutions and former principal deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, discusses the organizational alignment needed to execute this type of strategy. The CIA has a new online hiring portal with the goal of modernizing and streamlining the agency’s hiring process. The web-based platform is called “MyLINK” and launched at the beginning of the new year. Theresa Randall, talent acquisition office deputy chief at CIA, discusses how MyLINK will help the agency attract new talent. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher. And if you like what you hear, please let us know in the comments.