ASMC The Business of Defense

  • 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
  • If the pandemic was a threat to public health and a technical challenge to federal IT departments, it was also a gigantic opportunity for ransomware-motivated hackers. That phenomenon persists, presenting an ongoing need for protection.

    October 07, 2021
  • The past 18 months have thrown a wrench in many of the military’s plans, but the supply chain is one that has taken a particularly hard hit. Army Materiel Command had a handful of backups that caused issues for the supply chain during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

    October 06, 2021
  • It’s time to take a more comprehensive organization approach to cloud by incorporating detailed financial planning for the cloud. Brian Reynolds, principal for the Digital Transformation and Management Practice at Grant Thornton, calls this approach FinOps, a play on the DevOps principle in which technical, program and financial people work together continuously to ensure the agency gets the best return on the dollars it invests in commercial clouds.

    October 05, 2021
  • The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been pushing for more transparency in Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans for years. This transparency is important for fostering the continued quality and affordability of Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) plans and aiding in personal health care decision-making.

    October 04, 2021
  • Getting ID and access management right is important for several reasons. Sean Frazier, the federal chief security officer at Okta points out that the ID and access management “plane” in systems is an attractive place for attackers to gain access to networks and data.

    October 04, 2021
  • What is the IT strategy for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)? How is it using technology and innovation to change the way it does business? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer at USPTO. Original Broadcast Date: June 21, 2021

    October 04, 2021
  • This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michael Mina, Epidemiologist and member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard where they are taking a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling the ongoing pandemic. Dr. Mina has long been a proponent of making cheap, rapid, at-home COVID tests available to all Americans as a much more effective way to curtail the pandemic’s spread. He says these tests which have been deployed successfully in other countries, are almost 100 per cent effective in identifying potential infectious ‘super-spreaders’, and that government should classify them as a public health, not a medical, tool to allow for more swift production and deployment. He also discusses their efforts to build a global surveillance system for future disease outbreaks.

    October 04, 2021
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Andrew Mitchell. Sponsored by Stratford University. Find out if your Windows 11 is as secure as it can be. And we meet the founder of the Taiwanese company that makes 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips.

    October 04, 2021
  • Eric McGrane, a growth leader for the defense enterprise services sector at GDIT, which manages the platform, said SaaS is one of several innovations that milCloud 2.0 is offering.

    October 01, 2021
  • During this webinar, top government security experts from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Veterans Affairs and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency provide a CDM status update and look towards the future.

    September 27, 2021
  • Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Andrew Mitchell. Sponsored by Stratford University. How to scan for a hidden camera in your hotel room or vacation rental. And we get the real story behind a man with a fake name.

    September 27, 2021
  • In this exclusive executive briefing, agency and industry executives explore why protecting data requires a comprehensive approach involving every part of the IT chain – people, policy, infrastructure and applications.

    September 24, 2021
  • This exclusive e-book highlights what a few federal agencies are doing to tackle data security challenges and improve their cyber data posture.

    September 23, 2021