Automation

Robotic process automation as a way of improving operations and freeing people’s time up for higher value work has taken hold at the General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer.

AppGate Federal Group President Greg Touhill joined host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss Zero Trust, cybersecurity and how to reduce the attack surface for federal information technology.

VOAs IPSUM artificial intelligence tool can translate and transcribe nearly 1,800 hours of radio and television each week to reach.

With the FBI now getting nearly 200,000 fingerprint submissions a day, automation tools have allowed the bureau to process most of its incoming requests without any human intervention.

The Mitre Corporation, which operates federally funded research and development centers, has set up a lab to explore mobile autonomous systems.

The Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation sees itself as a catalyst among agencies, one that is “thinking about the future.”

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget request includes $125 million for the Technology Modernization Fund and the return of the priority for agencies to move to IPv6.

North Dakota’s Gov. Doug Burgum picked a state CIO with similar unconventional traits. Shawn Riley overcame a difficult upbringing, started his own company at 16, and now with Burgum’s support leads the state’s IT renaissance.

Dr. Michael Wooten, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said he is preparing the workforce for a future where robotics process automation and artificial intelligence take over the mundane tasks of acquisition.

Appian’s Michael Beckley recently joined Federal News Network to discuss both the challenges and opportunities of automation.

Jason Green, vice president Public Sector and Derek Weeks, vice president and DevOps Advocate at Sonatype join host John Gilroy on this weeks Federal Tech Talk to discuss open source software development and how their company can reduce cost and increase cybersecurity for federal agencies.

Kraig Conrad, the CEO of the National Contract Management Association, said acquisition and contracting officers must take advantage of automation to be more agile and faster.

Ron Lopez, president and managing director of Astroscale USA, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss orbital sustainability and how his company is leading the effort in space debris removal.

Rick “Ozzie” Nelson, vice president and general manager for the Public Sector at MicroStrategy, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to talk about business intelligence and how it is being used to analzye complex problems in the federal government.