Ask the CIO: SLED Edition

John Thomas Flynn, former chief information officer in California and Massachusetts, and former president of the National Association of State CIOs, features conversations with state and local CIOs, CISOs, program leadership and elected officials, plus the IT vendor community.


Latest Podcasts / Episodes

  • The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) celebrated its 50th anniversary recently at its fall conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Federal News Network’s Ask the CIO: SLED Edition was on the scene for the…
    November 7, 2019
  • Dewand Neely, Inidiana’s CIO appointed by then Governor Mike Pence discusses his road to the position, his organization’s expanding role with non-traditional constitutional officers, his security maturity/assessment model and his proudest accomplishments.
    October 24, 2019
  • The Public Technology Institute and the Computing Technology Industry Association hosted the National Symposium on Cybersecurity in Government last month in Washington, D.C. They highlighted case studies and leading practices, and provided a forum for local…
    October 17, 2019
  • Cybersecurity continues to rank as the No. 1 technology issue facing America’s local governments, according to the Public Technology Institute (PTI). It’s why PTI and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) hosted the National Symposium on…
    October 10, 2019
  • Call it the loop of “non-appreciation,” as it has existed as long as state chief information officers. These CIOs often find that their enterprise plans are stymied by their IT colleagues at large agencies within…
    September 26, 2019
  • One barometer to use when assessing how serious states are about cybersecurity may be a governor’s selection of a new chief information officer. In the case of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, his first choice…
    September 19, 2019
  • The National Governor’s Association (NGA) has expressed new interest in state information technology issues particularly around the subject of cybersecurity. This year NGA instituted a process whereby states are competitively selected for partnerships with the…
    August 8, 2019
  • InnovateOhio is the Buckeye State’s answer to improving government services through enabling technologies. Under the leadership of Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, InnovateOhio is advancing Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration’s commitment. State Chief Information Officer Ervan Rodgers…
    July 25, 2019
  • In Arizona, where sand or dust storms are neither irrational nor unexpected, one such event knocked out the state’s data center services for three days and as a result was a catalyst for the Chief…
    July 18, 2019
  • Chris DeRusha, Michigan’s top security officer, is quick to clarify why his title is chief security officer rather than chief information security officer. Like so many other states Michigan had a change in administrations last…
    June 27, 2019
  • During the hour-long “Battling the Opioid Crisis with Help from the Cloud” panel at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, 130 people across the country died from an opioid…
    June 13, 2019
  • Host John Thomas Flynn spoke to Shireen Santosham, chief innovation officer for the Mayor of San Jose’s Office of Technology and Innovation, and Dolan Beckel, director of the Office of Civic Innovation and Digital Strategy…
    June 6, 2019
  • State chief information officers (CIOs) these days come in all different shapes, sizes and backgrounds, but that was not always the case. At this year’s National Association of State Chief Information Officers Midyear Conference in…
    May 30, 2019
  • Host John Thomas Flynn spoke to Nebraska state Chief Information Officer Ed Toner and Connecticut state CIO Mark Raymond this month at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ (NASCIO) Midyear Conference just outside…
    May 24, 2019