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People like Andy Grove, brilliant at business though they are, also are driven by a desire to change the world by developing new things or totally disrupting existing things.
March 23, 2016 Three innovators join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss the new incubator Mach37, and how their products will help IT professionals in the federal government. March 15, 2016
March 14, 2016-
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Sean McAfee, the deputy director of the National Cybersecurity Assessment and Technical Services, will lead the cyber operations part of the Homeland Security Department’s new Silicon Valley office, where he will work with companies to find innovations that the government can test and scale across all agencies as soon as possible.
March 09, 2016 Dr. Kurt Heisler, senior policy advisor for Technology and Innovation, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services, discusses innovation, data visualization, and how to interpret big data. March 1, 2016
February 29, 2016-
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Lou Kerestesy, founder and CEO, GovInnovators, highlights the first steps for agencies should consider when creating a place to promote innovation.
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Innovation can be hard to define, especially in something as stodgy as the federal government. But you know it when you see it. A study sponsored by the IBM Center for the Business of Government found lots of obstacles to innovation in federal agencies, but also lots of successes. Greg Dawson is senior faculty associate in the school for public affairs at Arizona State University and Jim Denford heads the management and economics department at the Royal Military College of Canada. They did the research and authored the report. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked them to define innovation. Dawson speaks first.
January 08, 2016 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-
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
