Ep. 135 Networking at the Speed of Light
Release Date: 03/05/2024
Ep. 152 Insights on Managing Federal Data
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
We are in a whirlwind of change. Data is pouring into federal agencies. A recent report indicated that data was growing at 25% a year; cloud usage at a rate of 61%; and Software as A Service an astounding 200%. Oh, did I forget to mention that Generative AI is also increasing data exploding? It is one thing to worry about data from John’s Doughnuts, and quite another to worry about sensitive military, financial, and health information that the federal government is charged to protect. Data. gov estimates that 250 million data sets are being used by the public sector. This increase in data...
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Ep. 151 AI and Software Development
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Sometimes, the most important impact of technology can be behind the curtains. Today, we will not focus on AI Deep Fakes and AI language translation, but on the impact AI on software development. Terry Miller from Karsun begins the interview with the basics of software development: collecting user stories. Traditionally, a systems analyst would interview several users to see how a software system should behave. This time-consuming process can be assisted with AI helping in assembling the details. Please note, Terry Miller will argue that AI is used as an auxiliary to humans putting together...
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Ep. 150 AI: Can it provide a safe path for federal technology?
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Ep. 150 Can a platform provide a path to safe AI for federal technology? About every reader knows that ServiceNow is a large company that helps the federal government with managing large systems. Today, Dr. Raj Iyer answers the question – is ServiceNow keeping up with AI to help reduce cost and improve delivery for massive federal systems? Dr. Iyer is in a unique position because of his years of experience in commercial systems and a recent stint as the CIO of the United States Army. An argument can be made that he is up to date with managing large systems and has a thorough understanding of...
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Ep. 149 Artificial Intelligence & human intelligence to win proposals.
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Everyone has seen AI with articles and even deep fake videos. No doubt it is dazzling, great for a conversation at a picnic with friends. The question is . . . can you put AI in work boots? Vishwas Lele has a novel idea: combine the best of AI with the best of proposal writing. Further, his innovation can be applied to an environment where data must be held securely. Yes, we are talking about proposals for the federal intelligence community. Vishwas describes the Microsoft approach to AI – differentiates between free and paid Chat GPT as well as the free and paid versions of CoPilot....
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Ep. 148 Deep Intelligence and Critical Visibility
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Federal technology has paralleled the commercial world in its expansion to millions of endpoints. On one hand, this means better information from something like an intrusion sensor. On the other hand, it means the attack surface has just expanded exponentially. It has come to a point where there has been a normalization of breaches. Unfortunately, this does not mean one can neglect protecting your agency from external threats. ZeroFox specializes in understanding external threat security. They have been around since 2013 and “Zero” in on protecting apps, data, people, domains, and API’s....
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Ep. 147 Tech Communities how to build and sustain
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
After hundreds of interviews with tech innovators I have concluded they are all trying to accomplish the same thing: tell how they can help get the word out that they may have a slice of the solution for federal information technology. One of the best ways to “get the word out” is through a community of interest. During the interview today, Derek Weeks details his success in forming a community around Development Operations, or DevOps. In fact, he has published a book detailing that wildly successful endeavor: Unfair Mindshare LINK One of the keys is to listen to problems and...
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Ep. 146 Tactical Edge Network
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
The federal government has a myriad of technological challenges: legacy systems, Zero Trust, and even maintaining existing equipment! Most companies who work in that environment solve problems from a traditional office, or, even more comfortably, a home office. Unfortunately, life at the tactical edge is not that easy. Today, we dive into the tactical edge network with Sumner Lee, the CEO of a company called Fuse Integration. He started his career at the U.S. Naval Academy and has served in a variety of different geographical environments. As a result, he has an appreciation for warfighters...
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Ep. 145 DDOS Attacks & Federal Agencies
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Cybersecurity threats are like fashion; wait a few years and they come back in style. The Internet was designed to take a series of digits and resolve them to a website address. This was deemed the Domain Name Service, or DNS. In 1996, we saw the first malicious actor flooding a system with an attack. This was called a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, or DDOS. Over the years new methods of attack have proliferated and DDOS has taken a back seat. However, the number of endpoints has risen exponentially. It certainly looks like we are in a perfect storm to revive good old-fashioned DDOS....
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Ep. 144 Process automation and no code platforms Appian
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Appian Corporation is a 25-year-old technology company that focuses on improving process automation for large organizations. Once a year they have an annual conference for developers and partners. They rotate this meeting all over the world, we are lucky enough to have them meet in Washington DC where we have the chance to sit down with one of Appian’s co-founders, Michael Beckley. During the interview Michael Beckley covered topics like the impact of artificial intelligence on process automation; process automation and acquisition professionals; and how to improve process automation. Appian...
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Ep. 143 Selling to the feds (Bonus episode) Breaking into the federal technology marketplace.
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
In connecting with some new listeners, I learned that some have never sold to the federal government and listened to the podcast to see how other companies manage to work with federal agencies in reaching agency goals. Well, it seems time to pull back with a bonus episode on how to sell technology to the federal government. To accomplish this task, I looked for a person with twenty years of experience in public sector marketing. The logical choice was Brian Chidester. He has worked for many companies in the past two decades and, as a bonus, has a podcast as well. His podcast is called The...
info_outlineEveryone reading this has seen the movie Top Gun with Tom Cruise and heard the classic phrase, “The Need for Speed.” Well, a desire for speed is not limited to Naval Aviators. People in federal technology may not have call signs but need to optimize communication speed between data centers.
If you were to stand in front of a whiteboard with a bunch of enterprise architects, they would dazzle you with CPU and GPU speeds. Memory tricks with virtualization give you tons of memory. However, at the end of the day, the real choking point is the connections between those stacks of silicon.
During today’s interview, Rob Shore from Infinera unpacked how optical speeds have drastically changed over the years. Today’s speeds allow for transmittal of 1.2 Terabits per second. That makes the speed of your home wi-fi look like a bicycle racing a Maserati.
The conversation took a fascinating twist. While everybody is debating the methods of data collection for artificial intelligence, systems engineers are worrying about the hardware being able to “catch up” to the speed demands that, for example, driverless cars demand.
At the end of the conversation, Rob talks about applying the concepts for fast optical cable to inside the data center. Same principles, a need for speed between servers and routers inside a data center as well as between data centers.
You can watch the short video starring Rob Shore that explains one technical aspect of technology, coherent optics.
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