public-private partnership

Bob Tuohy, chief operating officer at Advanced Technology International, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss how non-profits can help federal agencies achieve innovation in science and technology. July 31, 20198

Among the ideas included in the Trump administration’s reorganization proposal are recommendations to create a new public-private research center and move some aspects of FEMA and TSA to the Transportation Department.

Sandeep Patel, open innovation manager and KidneyX project director, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share more details.

DHS’ Karinda Washington joined Gigi Schumm on Women of Washington to discuss her dedication to private-public partnerships and the importance of patience and persistence in the job seeking process.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency says the idea is far from final, but is exploring the idea of trading decades’ worth of its data to commercial firms in exchange for help with artificial intelligence and advanced computing algorithms.

DoD says it wants public-private partnerships to form the basis of future space launches. But current congressional mandates are narrowly focused on breaking the decades-old habit of using Russian rocket engines.

The military already has shown it can improve services on bases through public-private partnerships. As budgets shrink, the next task is to partner with local governments.

The idea behind cyber threat intelligence is to understand more about the attack and the attacker than ever before by matching up patterns, anomalies and other characteristics of the bad guys. Energy, DoD, Commerce and DHS are all analyzing cyber attack data to develop this more complete picture.

NIST launched the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in February and now is giving industry details on how it will work. The center’s goal is to bring businesses and government together to solve cyber problems.

Dick Stapleton from HHS and Mark Pietrasanta from Aquilent join host John Gilroy to discuss best practices that federal agencies can use to engage citizens. May 24, 2011