In a new "future of work" concept paper, the Army's biggest R&D organization told employees it wants them to work whenever and wherever they're most productive, even once the pandemic ends.
Hosted by Dr. Richard Shurtz and Jim Russ. Sponsored by Stratford University. We explain non-fungible tokens - again. And we meet the co-founder of Adobe Systems and the creator of the PDF.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way local governments operate and deliver public services? What are local governments doing differently in the aftermath of the pandemic?
FedHIVE CEO Michael Cardaci joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help agencies make a smooth transition to a new set of requirements from the DoD called the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.
Dr. Evan Loh, chief executive officer at Paratek Pharmaceuticals, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic, the troubling rise in antibiotic resistant infections and the threat to global public health.
Federal News Network's Jory Heckman speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation's capital.
This week Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Eric Topol, Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. Dr. Topol calls drug maker AstraZeneca’s recent controversial under-reporting of complete safety data to US regulators for its COVID-19 vaccine ‘disturbing’ and ‘unprecedented’ in his clinical trial career. He calls the rapid development of highly successful and effective COVID vaccines one of biomedicine’s greatest achievements and predicts the pandemic crisis will pave the way for more remarkable scientific breakthroughs, and a greater opportunity for the growth of personalized medicine via smartphones.
Chris Parente of StoryTech Consulting, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a detailed discussion on content marketing.
This program provides a progress report on machine learning and artificial intelligence in government.
Neil Proctor, vice president of Engineering R&D at Acronis SCS, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help a federal agency accomplish the goal of resiliency.
Has our discomfort with uncertainty given rise to forecasting industries that profit off our “prediction addiction.”? Why election predictions, polls, and surveys won't tell us who will win? To what extent are predictions really just hypothesis that need to be challenged? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Margaret Heffernan author of Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future.
This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michael Osterholm, renowned pandemic expert and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. A recent advisor to President Biden’s transition team, Dr. Osterholm warns of another COVID-19 surge on the horizon as the more contagious UK variant, which is causing more lockdowns across Europe, is becoming the dominant strain in the US. He says vaccination rates must be accelerated, and that more equitable distribution of vaccines around the world will be the only way to get the pandemic fully under control.
Greg Garcia recently retired after 38 years in government where spent the last two-plus years as the deputy CIO of the Army.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Rick Bright, Sr. Vice President for Pandemic Preparedness and Response at The Rockefeller Foundation, former chief of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at HHS, and member of the Biden Transition Team on COVID-19. Dr. Bright is launching a new pandemic preparedness initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, creating the first-of-its-kind national and global pandemic surveillance infrastructure to alert governments around the world about emerging pandemic threats. Dr. Bright resigned his post at BARDA after filing a whistleblower complaint against the previous administration for mishandling of the pandemic response.
Rebecca Weaver, vice president and Solution Architect for Contract Writing Systems Solutions, DoD programs at CGI Federal , joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss acquisition agility and the role it plays in delivering IT modernization to federal customers.