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• ACT-IAC CEO discusses leadership challenges during the presidential election

  This week on Leaders and Legends in Government, Dave Wennergren, CEO of ACT-IAC joins host Aileen Black to talk about leadership and the challenges of leadership during the upcoming presidential election.

• FDIC kicking off academic challenge

  Do community banks have any real effect on local economic development. The FDIC is asking students that question.

• Some question why White House plans to fill federal CIO, CISO roles now

  Multiple sources confirm President Donald Trump plans to name Basil Parker as the new federal chief information officer and Camilo Sandoval as the new federal chief information security officer.

• Sammies finalist helped multi-agency investigation to tackle opioids in Appalachia

  Last year a team of federal investigators, as part of the national effort to mitigate the opioid crisis, indicted 73 licensed medical practitioners for enabling the addiction crisis in Appalachia.

• SD-WAN could get NOAA’s network to zero trust

  Chi Kang, deputy director for Operations in NOAA’s Cyber Security Division, talked about how the agency made the pandemic shift to large-scale telework and how its modernizing legacy network systems.

• DoD CDO explains how to handle change in the aftermath of a crisis

  Dave Spirk, the new chief data officer at the Department of Defense, joins Aileen Black on this week's Leaders and Legends to talk about leadership and to discuss the new data strategy that will empower every level of the agency to leverage data more effectively. Interview Highlights:

• Homeland Security IG swims away from this bait

  IG Cuffari declines to get in the middle of a political fight between Congress and DHS leadership

• Transitioning to a possibly new administration

  Joe Biden has a new office in Washington, D.C., because as a major party nominee for president, he and his advisors are entitled to not only office space, but also computers, phones and support.

• Innovation is more than a buzzword at one Navy center

  Judy Conley and Jessica McElman, of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, are both finalists for the Women in Technology leadership award for their efforts to ensure their employees don’t get stuck in a rut.

• NASA scientist named Sammies finalist for polar ice research

  Scientists have followed melting polar ice for decades. The gold standard for this research was pioneered by NASA scientist Claire Parkinson.

• POTUS pick to lead OPM accused of ‘lacking commitment to federal merit system’

  President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management is accused of 'lacking commitment to federal merit system," one of D.C.'s industry experts is leaving his high-profile post, and a congressional committee is launching an investigation into recent tragedies at Ft. Hood.

• Chvotkin to leave PSC after 19 years

  Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, helped grow the association over the last two decades as agencies spent more on services than products.

• Pre-pandemic CIO Council report nearly predicted SD-WAN’s usefulness to agencies

  Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said the council wanted to plan for the next five to 10 years of agency network priorities and how to prepare for an emergency.

• Ever-evolving challenges keep EXIM Bank leader at the agency for 50 years and counting

  Throughout a 50-year career at the Export-Import Bank, Jim Cruse, a senior vice president of policy analysis and international relations, has seen the agency through its ups and downs.