Ep. 212 Making Sense of the Confusing World of AI & The Federal Government
Release Date: 01/30/2025
Ep. 212 Making Sense of the Confusing World of AI & The Federal Government
Federal Tech Podcast: for innovators, entrepreneurs, and CEOs who want to increase reach and improve brand awareness
Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Anyone with a pulse knows the new Trump administration has rescinded dozens of Executive Orders written by the previous president, Joe Biden. Executive orders #14110 and #14141, which dealt with artificial Intelligence, were part of this package. This has put the federal technical community in a state of expectation. On the one hand, they are charged with reducing costs by leveraging technology; on the other hand, they have a hiring freeze, and nobody knows what the new AI mandates will consist of....
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Ep 211 Build Software Faster: GitLab
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? A recent study showed that the federal government has identified 1700 use cases for Artificial Intelligence. Today, we examine some challenges and solutions for unlocking the power of AI represented in these examples. Our guest, Joel Krooswyk from GitLab, examines Software Bills of Material, repatriation, and what efficiency might look like in the future. SBOM. For years, software developers have recommended using a Software Bill of Material. Today, its value has become so apparent that it is...
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Ep 210 Software Development and the Shift Left
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? “Efficiency” seems like the new buzzword for federal technology in the next few years. When writing software sense, efficiency can mean writing code once and moving on to regular maintenance. However, we see security initiatives being mandated that cause developers to go back to previous stable systems and add code alterations to comply with new cyber threats. Even beginner efficiency experts will tell you the time and cost of operating in this manner can be expensive. Further, recording can add new...
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Ep. 209 AI & and Proposal Development in 2025
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? People are getting comfortable with Generative AI and applying it to many business areas. This widespread adoption shows many of the weaknesses of individuals misusing technology. It is one thing to settle a baseball statistics argument with GenAI; another complete application when competing for a million-dollar federal contract that includes management of sensitive information. These include biased outputs, lack of creativity, and misinformation, to name a few. Today, we offer a solution. Vishwas Lele is...
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Ep 208 Innovation with OSCAL, Federal Cloud, and Compliance
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Everyone reading this knows that April 15 is the dreaded day that one must pay federal income taxes. Big business has hordes of tax accountants and lawyers who do tax planning to accommodate federal deadlines. Sometimes, the deadline could be better known. Are you familiar with the OMB’s M-24-15? This will require companies to submit compliance information in a machine-readable format. Today, we sat down with Valinder Mangat from DRTConfidence. Valinder describes technology, deadlines, and approaches...
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Ep 207 Federal Data, Fast Access, Security
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Ep 206 Federal Data, Fast Access, Security Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? When it comes to technology, the founders of VAST Data can be described as “prescient.” In 2015, they looked at the problem of data management from a unique perspective. They did not want to call their company VAST “storage” but VAST “Data” because the problem they tried to solve was not the amount of storage but how to get instant and fast access to that data. The wave they rode was a combination of nVidia investing in graphic processing units and...
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Ep 206 An Argument for Enterprise Design
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Complex environments exist in commercial organizations and the federal government. In a typical fashion, humans resist change until an incident force restructuring. In this case, the change of design will be costly. During today’s interview, Nick Pesce says that today’s systems are burdened to such an extent that structural change should start now, when it is easy and less expensive, and then wait for an incident that will cause change. Both guests, Nick Pesce and Don Lamb, have experience in federal...
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Ep 205 AI = Data + Compute + Algorithm
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? Cybersecurity professionals like to talk about data “at rest” and data “in transit.” They never mention how exactly this concept of “in transit” takes place. Once upon a time, in a data center far, far away, one could take a database and move it easily. Kind of like taking a suitcase in your car and driving across town. Today, federal agencies are deluged with so much data, is it more like dragging your entire house across town? Moving data today involves concepts like data tiring. This...
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Ep 204 Understanding of the Landscape of Your Network
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? We all know that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. A couple of years later, a map maker named Americo Vespucci made quite a splash with a new map. This has a direct parallel with today’s information technology. Columbus really did not “discover” anything—it was there all along. When you look at an enterprise system, be it a bank in Houston or a federal agency, you may have only a hint of what is on your network. Who knows what kind of “ghost IT” has been added to your system? It could be...
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Ep 203 Dangers that Lurk inside Your Phone
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Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn Want to listen to other episodes? We have all heard that the phones we carry around have more computing power than was used in the Apollo moon mission. Breaking news: these powerful devices in our pockets are vulnerable to attacks of which we cannot dream. We can just pick up our phones and read the headlines. Brian Krebs reports federal charges against SMS attacks, Salt Typhoon getting into our phone systems, even the FBI telling us to use encryption on our phones. Today, we sat down with Jim Coyle from Lookout to unpack the concept of...
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Anyone with a pulse knows the new Trump administration has rescinded dozens of Executive Orders written by the previous president, Joe Biden. Executive orders #14110 and #14141, which dealt with artificial Intelligence, were part of this package.
This has put the federal technical community in a state of expectation. On the one hand, they are charged with reducing costs by leveraging technology; on the other hand, they have a hiring freeze, and nobody knows what the new AI mandates will consist of.
Today, we sat down with Jennifer Sample from EmpowerAI, a veteran of the tech wars, and asked her what direction developments in AI will take.
Jennifer Sample reminds listeners that the federal government must consider privacy restrictions when applying AI to solving federal problems. Unfortunately, our near-peer adversaries have no such constraints.
When the federal government attempts to apply AI, it does so inconsistently. The CIO Council may be able to list 1,700 federal use cases for AI, but the hard part is vetting the data sources and matching impact with agency goals.
During the interview, Jennifer Sample discusses concepts like being AI ready, continuous qualification, and contextual governance.
2025 will force the federal government to do more with less; AI is a tool that can help accomplish that noble goal.
If you want to hear a more in-depth discussion, she will speak at the Potomac Officers’ Club on March 12, 2025, in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.