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What vacancies at DHS means for contractors

Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, discusses the vacancies at the Department of Homeland Security and the difficulties...

The Federal Beat – April 14, 2019

Frank Konkel, executive editor at NextGov, and Adam Mazmanian, executive editor at FCW, discuss the vacancies across the Department of...

CDM as Reality: Status & Future

Watch this program on-demand now. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the CDM program “is a dynamic approach to...

Agencies team up for Opioid Detection Challenge

Rosanna Robertson, program manager at Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, Manuel Garza, acting director of the Customs...

DHS releases list of research areas to pursue with small businesses

Reggie Brothers, former under secretary of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, and executive vice president &...

2018 AMSUS Annual Meeting

When: Nov. 27–30, and preconference Nov. 26 Where: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. The AMSUS Annual...

DHS Science & Tech Directorate overhauls organization model

William Bryan, senior official performing the duties of the under secretary for Science & Technology at DHS, discusses the directorate’s...

Enabling IT Modernization – Building a Next-Generation Network Foundation

Watch the full program on-demand now. Host Francis Rose discusses IT Modernization as one of the three key drivers of...

The Federal Beat – September 2, 2018

Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller, FedScoop Managing Editor Billy Mitchell and FCW Executive Editor Adam Mazmanian discuss some...

Evolution of the DHS Digital Service team

Stephanie Neill, executive director of the DHS Digital Service, discusses the ways that her team has grown since its formation,...

DHS announces new research and technology guides

Douglas Maughan, director of the Cyber Security Division at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, discusses guides that his agency...

U.S. blames North Korea for WannaCry cyberattack

Rear Adm. Jamie Barnett (USN, ret.), a partner in Venable’s cybersecurity practice, discusses comments from Department of Homeland Security advisor...

The Value of APIs for Government

Watch Now On-Demand While many agencies already use Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to share data with the public and comply...

Hundreds attend federal cyber & tech hiring fair

NextGov Cybersecurity correspondent Joseph Marks discusses a handful of headlines from this week, including the government first ever cyber hiring...

Mission of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Office

Patricia Cogswell, assistant director of homeland security investigations in the Office of Intelligence at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, discusses...

OMB satisfied with cybersecurity EO compliance

President Trump’s cybersecurity executive order called for agency heads to create a risk management report within 90 days — using the...

DHS leaders discuss where FLASH went wrong (and right)

Soraya Correa and Chip Fulgham, the chief procurement officer and acting undersecretary for management at the Department of Homeland Security,...

Agency approaches to OMB reorganization memo

Michael Stough, Director of the Program Analysis and Evaluation division in the ffice of the chief financial officer at the...

The Federal Beat

Military.com air warfare reporter Oriana Pawlyk, Nextgov technology reporter Mohana Ravindranath, and FCW staff writer Sean Carberry joined Francis for...

Mapping an approach to cyber procurement

Chris Cummiskey, CEO of Cummiskey Strategic Solutions and former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed cyber procurement...

White House initiatives driving workforce priorities at DHS

Roland Edwards, deputy chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed how the government reorganization memo and...

Network Visibility – The Foundation of Cybersecurity in Government

Just as criminals frequently wait for dark to commit a crime; our cyber adversaries thrive when they can hide in...

Challenges to government-wide shared services adoption

Nick Nayak, president of Green Light Acquisition and former chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, discusses the biggest...

DHS releases study on mobile device security

Vincent Sritapan, program manager for the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency at DHS, discusses the agency’s latest study of...

What’s in a name? For NPPD, a new one could reflect changing priorities

Phyllis Schneck, managing director of cyber solutions at Promontory Financial Group and former deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department...

Reading the tea leaves on cloud migration and optimization

Is it time to stop thinking about federal data centers in terms of consolidation, and start thinking about that effort...

Will category management, shared services find favor in the Trump Administration?

Nick Nayak, president of Green Light Acquisition and former chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed the...

The future of civil service reform

Jeffrey Neal, senior vice president at ICF and former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed...

Navigating the federal hiring freeze

Jeffrey Neal, senior vice president at ICF and former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed...

Impact of Trump administration on industry

Nick Nayak, former chief procurement officer at Department of Homeland Security and president of Green Light Acquisition, discusses how the...

DHS’s chief procurement officer Sorya Correa (Part 2)

Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed new procurement efforts at DHS, agile acquisition, the...

DHS’s chief procurement officer Sorya Correa (Part 1)

Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed new procurement efforts at DHS, agile acquisition, the...

Government Matters (Full Show) – January 15, 2017

Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed new procurement efforts at DHS, agile acquisition, the...

How-to guide to the 2016 Combined Federal Campaign

Vince Micone, a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security and chairperson of the board of directors for the Combined...

The future of NIEM

The National Information Exchange Model considers itself to be a data dictionary. NIEM says it uses agreed-upon terms, definitions, relationships,...

Prospects for FEMA’s top spot

Rich Cooper, principal with Catalyst Partners and former official at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses the potential shortlist of...

Cummiskey: Next DHS secretary should focus on people, money, organization, and components

Chris Cummiskey, former acting undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, offered a four-point plan for the next DHS secretary....

Enterprise risk management, FITARA and the impact of a CR at DHS

Department of Homeland Security chief financial officer Chip Fulghum discussed enterprise risk management, the impact of a continuing resolution on...

Preparing for the presidential transition

Francis speaks with former Deputy Undersecretary for Management at DHS Chris Cummiskey about the preparations going on for a new...

The growth of DHS’s Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) program

According to FCW, The Department of Homeland Security’s Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) program has at least 100 users. We discussed...

OPM on SafeTrack – DHS’s AIS Program – Digital Services at DoD

Government Matters – June 13, 2016 Metro’s SafeTrack plan has been on the books for a week. We discussed how...

Speed networking designed to help prime contractors meet CDM goals

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, or CDM, was one response to the Office of Personnel Management data breach. It focuses on...

High impact rating created under FedRAMP

Richard Spires, CEO at Learning Tree International and former CIO at both the IRS and Department of Homeland Security, discussed...

Companies prepare for end of fiscal year

Nick Nayak, former chief procurement officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed the end-of-year rush for federal contractors and...