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  • This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter welcome “the Nation’s Doctor,” US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, Co-chair of President Biden’s White House COVID Task Force. Dr. Murthy explains the FDA’s latest approval for mixing vaccine brands for booster shots. He also addresses White House plans to roll out COVID vaccine support for the nation’s 5-11-year-olds pending FDA approval, and how vaccine requirements are ‘turbocharging’ vaccination rates. Dr. Murthy examines the growing crisis of unmet mental health needs, addiction, and overdose in this country, exacerbated by the pandemic. He also discusses an initiative he’s creating to address burnout in the health care profession.

    October 25, 2021
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Andrew Mitchell. Sponsored by Stratford University. We help you decide whether to buy a new phone in light of the new 5G networks out there. And we meet the computer scientist, visual artist and composer who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality.

    October 25, 2021
  • In this exclusive executive briefing, experts from the Department of the Interior, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Agency for International Development and Tableau will discuss how data has driven the success behind their hiring and retention strategies. 

    October 21, 2021
  • The Defense Logistics Agency is in charge of moving $40 billion worth of goods around the world per year, but when COVID hit and supply chains started moving in fits and starts, the organization had to start changing to get goods delivered on time. Rear Adm. Doug Norton, director of logistics operations for DLA, said DLA worked closely with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to find ways to deliver quickly in emergency situations.

    October 20, 2021
  • In this exclusive executive briefing, IT experts outline the significant impacts cloud and 5G have on implementing zero trust architecture.

    October 20, 2021
  • This week we speak with Dr. Ofer Levy, Director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and member of the FDA COVID Vaccine Advisory Panel. He talks about the recent decision to reject boosters for all recipients 16 and older, saying they didn’t have enough data for younger populations to make that recommendation. He says the review process for emergency authorization for young children aged 5-to-11 will be thorough, rigorous and transparent to the public. His team is also currently working on developing a COVID vaccine, as well as other vaccines that could be deployed for cancer and even opioid use disorder and fentanyl overdose.

    October 18, 2021
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Andrew Mitchell. Sponsored by Stratford University. We expose the way hackers have been stealing cryptocurrency. And we meet the co-founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum.

    October 18, 2021
  • In this episode of Market Chat we discuss with 3 field experts how to ensure your marketing is on target with helping government performance, customer experience and operational costs.

    October 14, 2021
  • “The key theme, and really everything that's coming out of the executive order is about resiliency,” said Christine Barnhart, senior director at Infor for supply chain strategy. “The order is about how we make our supply chains less fragile and more resilient. It's not so much about isolating us from the rest of the world, but really taking out some of the risks, and making sure that we're able to be self-sustaining at least for a period of time.”

    October 12, 2021
  • What are the principles of agile government? What are the new and emerging competencies required for agile public governance? How can agile principles and practices be taught in schools of public affairs and administration? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions with Angela Evans, Visiting Fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government & Former Dean of Public Affairs at the LBJ School, University of Texas, Austin.

    October 11, 2021
  • This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb whose new book outlines America’s epic failure in our response to the pandemic, leading to more than 700,000 deaths. “Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic” examines the inherent flaws at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public agencies that left us vulnerable to the raging pandemic. Dr. Gottlieb says the CDC and other agencies should be re-tooled to conduct more agile global disease surveillance, and that emerging therapeutics like Merck’s new oral COVID drug will be a game changer for treatment moving forward.

    October 11, 2021
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Andrew Mitchell. Sponsored by Stratford University. What to do if your iPhone keeps locking up. And we meet the founder and CEO of Epic Games.

    October 11, 2021
  • This week on FEDtalk, join an in-depth assessment of the most common myths in security clearance disputes. This program will provide updates on clearance reforms since FEDtalk’s last program on the issue: Sussing out the Security Clearance System. This show includes a Trusted Workforce 2.0 update, including information on the January 2021 memo expanding the established administrative process rights enjoyed by contractor employees to civilians, those in uniform, and contractors seeking SCI.  

    October 08, 2021
  • Mundane and often repetitive tasks can take a lot of time out of an employee’s day. Automating those tasks allows workers to put their focus elsewhere. Automation can be the perfect job satisfaction and innovation tool if workers can use their time on things that they enjoy and allow them to be creative.

    October 07, 2021