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.


  • Chris Tucker, chairman of the American Geographical Society and author of “A Planet of 3 Billion”, discusses some of the current trends in getting data from satellites to the ground.
    October 28, 2019
  • Jim Walker from UiPath joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss ways Robotic Process Automation can reduce costs for federal information technology projects.
    October 16, 2019
  • Phil Quade, the Chief Information Security Officer for Fortinet, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss his new book: “The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff, and…
    October 9, 2019
  • 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…
    October 1, 2019
  • Highlight Technologies COO Adam McNair joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain what ISO 9000 certification means to the world of federal software development projects.
    September 20, 2019
  • Andrew Churchill, vice president of Sales at Qlick, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss data literacy and how being able to “argue with data” can provide federal IT professionals…
    September 13, 2019
  • Tony Solomita, director of Innovation and Trent Hone, Fellow at Excella, join host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss agile software development and the value it provides to the federal government.
    September 9, 2019
  • Bob McKay, senior vice president of Customer Identity and Risk Solutions at Neustar, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how technology can help federal IT officials reduce waste, fraud…
    September 2, 2019
  • Dr. Chase Cunningham, principal analyst at Forrester, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity and why federal agencies should set up virtual platforms to test Zero Trust concepts.
    August 19, 2019
  • Don Graham, director of Sales for Radiant Logic joins John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how the digital revolution is changing identity management in the federal government.
    August 6, 2019
  • John Zanni, CEO at Acronis SCS joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Talk Talk to discuss cybersecurity, risk management and what can be done to make the supply chain for hardware manufacturing safer.
    July 31, 2019
  • Tom Romeo, president of the Federal Division at MAXIMUS, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how Robotics Process Automation can save federal agencies time in data collection and reduce…
    July 25, 2019
  • Jeremy Rissi, vice president Commercial and Public Sector at MobileIron, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to explain how a phone based system can be used to help federal agencies protect…
    July 9, 2019
  • Clark Richey, co-founder and CTO of FactGem, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss data analytics and how his company is helping federal agencies make sense of the mountains of…
    July 2, 2019