Federal Tech Talk

Federal Tech Talk looks at the world of high technology in the federal government. Host John Gilroy, of The Oakmont Group, speaks the language of federal CISOs, CIOs and CTOs, and gets into the specifics for government IT systems integrators. John covers the latest government initiatives and technology news for the federal IT manager and government contractor.


  • Willie Hicks, federal CTO at Dynatrace, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss a new survey that asked three hundred federal information technology professionals about the challenges their agencies face…
    March 11, 2022
  • Patrick Sullivan, CTO of Security Strategy at Akamai Technologies, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss Zero Trust and how to apply it to federal information technology.
    March 4, 2022
  • Joe Balchune, vice president and general manager of Federal Markets at Motorola, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain how his company provides mission critical communications for many federal agencies. 
    February 25, 2022
  • Vimesh Patel, chief technology advisor for WWT, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss the challenges of software modernization for the  federal government.
    February 18, 2022
  • Tim Odom, director of Business Technology Solutions Development at Vidoori, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk, to explain how high-performance testing can help federal leaders complete major tasks on time and…
    February 11, 2022
  • Duncan Jones, head of Cybersecurity, and Tom Benjamin, president at Cambridge Quantum North America, join host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk for a deep discussion on quantum computing and federal information technology.
    February 7, 2022
  • Bob Stevens, Area VP of Public Sector at GitLab, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss the entire process of the software development life cycle and provide guidelines on ways…
    January 31, 2022
  • Nancy Pate, general manager, Public Sector and Danny Holloway, Public Sector Field chief technology officer at  Immuta, join host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to share methods to overcome some of the…
    January 21, 2022
  • Kurt Greening, Leader Public Sector, Public Cloud, Palo Alto Networks, joined host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company’s innovations are helping federal IT officials protect their data from…
    January 14, 2022
  • ThreatLocker CEO and co-founder Danny Jenkins joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity. zero trust software, and issues brought up by the Log4j cyber attack.
    January 7, 2022
  • Gil Vega,  chief information security officer for Veeam, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain why federal IT officials should update their data security strategies.
    December 31, 2021
  • Michael Speca, president of Ardalyst, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to give us an update on the CMMC initiative from the Department of Defense.
    December 10, 2021
  • Bill Wright is the senior director of North American Government Affairs at Splunk, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal technology leaders need to…
    December 8, 2021
  • Mark Johnson, vice president of Federal Cloud at Oracle, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk, to discuss the challenges federal information technology folks have in transitioning to the cloud.
    November 26, 2021