innovation
Jason McNutt and Chris Miller with Applied Information Sciences, join host John Gilroy to discuss some of the objectives of the General Services Administration's 18F program and the concepts behind this innovation. December 22, 2015
December 17, 2015-
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton & Associates Inc., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item acquisition, contract duplication and the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. November 10, 2015
November 09, 2015 -
Lou Kerestesy, founder and CEO, GovInnovators, argues that agencies have the tools and ability to innovate, but need to ask the right questions.
November 09, 2015 Innovation is a popular concept in the government contracting space. But agencies still crave experience and that means innovation may not be all it's cracked up to be. Larry Allen is president of Allen Federal Business Partners and writes The Week Ahead newsletter. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about the innovation versus experience debate.
October 15, 2015-
Reggie Brothers, the undersecretary for Science and Technology at DHS, said he is spearheading a new program that creates integrated product teams (IPTs) to bring together all parts of the department. The goal is to prioritize investments for limited research and development funding.
October 14, 2015 Lou Kerestesy, founder of GovInnovators, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how innovation works in the federal government and where it is headed. October 13, 2015
October 12, 2015Jim Rinaldi, the CIO at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, said he created an IT petting zoo to test out emerging technology on a small scale to see how it could improve mission results.
September 25, 2015-
It might seem like something out of a science fiction novel, but soon travellers might be able to quickly moving through security checkpoints just by showing their hand to a scanner. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working with industry to bring fast, touchless fingerprint readers out of the lab and into the marketplace. The touchless technology offers unprecedented speed and a hygienic alternative to conventional fingerprint readers. Michael Garris is a Biometric Senior Scientist at NIST. He told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin that the scanners you touch are okay.
September 22, 2015 -
Three key elements comprise the Navy's latest efforts to recognize innovation in the Navy and Marine Corps. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus listed modernizing cash awards programs, creating innovation awards and exploring non-traditional incentives to encourage innovation. Marine Corps Maj. Armando Martinez of the Office of Strategy and Innovation in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Management tells In Depth with Francis Rose why the Navy's doing the awards program.
September 09, 2015 -
Contractors, government relationship feeling the impact of cutting-edge technology, resulting in potentially cheaper and more efficient manufacturing.
September 01, 2015 The Pentagon says its contribution for a new manufacturing institute dedicated to flexible electronics will be matched by $96 million in corporate and institutional funding. Officials say it could lead to a significant lightening of a soldier's loads and real-time damage reports from individual bulkheads aboard Navy ships.
August 31, 2015-
When it comes to innovating the procurement process, the Department of Homeland Security is trying to become more risk-friendly through a new lab.
July 07, 2015 -
About 63 organizations will benefit from this new service provider, Greg Garcia, the executive director of the Army IT Agency, tells Federal News Radio.
June 29, 2015 -
Agencies more willing to take on innovative projects and ideas are more likely to get the attention of millennials looking for jobs, according to a follow-up study to the 2014 Best Places to Work report.
April 02, 2015 -
The latest snapshot of the "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government" comes out later today. As it is every year, it's developed by the Partnership for Public for Service, Deloitte and the Hay Group. This year the number crunchers have ranked agencies in terms of how innovative they are. David Dye, a director in Deloitte's Federal Human Capital Group, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain just how to measure something like that — and how important it is.
April 02, 2015