Nextgov's Critical Update explores the future of government technology. Each episode, we dive into how the government is using the latest tech and more importantly, you’ll hear from some of the people who are trying to make change possible.
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Critical Update: A Technical Farewell and the ‘Emergiest’ News of 2022
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Critical Update: Safeguarding Data From Outside Intrusion
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Critical Update: How Data Analytics and AI Algorithms Can Prioritize Trust
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Critical Update: Leveraging Data to Achieve Mission
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Critical Update: Gaming the (Solar) System
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Critical Update: How NASA Might One Day Send Humans Into Outer Space
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NASA futurist Michael LaPointe joins the podcast to talk about what it will take—in technology, time and treasure—to get a human out of our solar system.
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Critical Update: The Information Constellation—How NOAA Data Ends up in Forecasts
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The environmental agency collects vast amounts of data each day from its constellation of satellites.
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Critical Update: Where the Final Frontier Meets Your Front Door
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NASA invents a lot of cool and cutting edge technology to make space exploration possible—tech that often ends up pretty close to home as well.
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Critical Update: To Bridge Quantum’s Valley of Death, Labs Need Funding and Workforce
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Oak Ridge National Lab’s Travis Humble discussed the state of quantum technology development and what it demands for future development.
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Critical Update: ‘The Good Death Is Our Only Goal’
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Leaders from GSA’s 10x program join the podcast to talk about how they’re mapping paths through the Valley of Death.
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Critical Update: Evolution in the 'Valley of Death'
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Nextgov looks at the use of cooperative research and development agreements by some major industry players to highlight how the meaning of the phrase, and implementation of its associated authorities, has shifted over the years.
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HED: Critical Update: Bridging the Defense Department’s Valley of Death
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The future of warfare could be determined by the Defense Department’s ability—or lack thereof—to quickly adopt emerging technologies.
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Critical Update: The Call for Greater Software Transparency is Louder than Ever
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Agencies will soon be required to ask vendors for a software bill of materials—or SBOM—to help manage vulnerabilities like those found in the Log4J library, but much of its contents could still be open for negotiation.
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Critical Update: Inching Closer to the Long-Awaited, Next Generation of Supercomputers
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The newest and next era of supercomputing is on the horizon.
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Critical Update: Flashback to the Government’s Cloud Anxiety, Even Before SolarWinds
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Re-writing the law for agencies to procure more secure cloud services is now mandated by executive order.
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Critical Update: Revisiting the Government’s Evolving-But-Still-Complicated Relationship with UFOs
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Here are the latest developments regarding unidentified aerial phenomena.
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How the National Science Foundation is Innovating for its Innovators
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A nascent team is developing platforms that are enabling new discoveries and insight sharing across the federal agency.
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Federal CIO Explains the Tech Side of President’s Management Agenda
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Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana joins Critical Update to talk about the technology underpinning the President’s Management Agenda, particularly with regard to improving customer experience.
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Veterans Affairs Applies Mixed Reality Tech to Solve Real-World Health Issues
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Nextgov digs into the Veterans Affairs Department’s strategic efforts to deploy future-facing technologies to modernize the care it provides. Department officials are experimenting with augmented and virtual reality—and also figuring out how tiny devices like sensors could improve the canes used by the visually impaired or help prevent falls in fac…
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The Federal CISO is Prioritizing Flexibility for Agencies
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Time isn’t one of the things agencies facing cyberattacks usually have, but according to federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha, that’s exactly what they need. To address the new age of cyberattacks, DeRusha previewed changes to cybersecurity reporting practices and his role working with other cyber leaders, agency CISOs and the F…
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Technology is not good or evil—it all depends on how it is used. The same is true of cryptocurrencies, which are often used to purchase illicit goods and services or for questionable “investment” schemes but can also help vulnerable communities not served by—or taken advantage of by—traditional financial institutions. The latest episode of Critical…
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When Seeing No Longer Means Believing, What’s a Government to Do?
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Deepfakes have a range of compelling applications in the modern communication and entertainment realms but the techniques underpinning them can also be repurposed for nefarious uses. This form of synthetic media, which often presents people doing and saying things they did not actually do or say, rose in popularity over the last several years, incl…
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How Federal Agencies Can Help Avert Quantum Catastrophe
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The eventuality of a quantum computer won’t mean the end of information security as it’s often described. But experts say the threat it poses to encryption and security does demand urgent action from federal agencies, even as they fend off current cyberattacks. This episode dives into what policy efforts from the White House and Congress could push…
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How the Controversial JEDI Contract Changed the Pentagon
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In 2017, the Defense Department started kicking around a disruptive idea: What if the department buys—not builds—an enterprise cloud? The department initiated a multibillion-dollar procurement for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, which hit legal snag after legal snag until DOD cancelled the project in July. Though JEDI was never r…
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How to Develop Apps for Supercomputers that Don’t Exist Yet
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U.S. national laboratories are about to enter the exascale era by turning on supercomputers that can perform a billion billion operations per second. But all hardware needs software, which led the Energy Department to create the Exascale Computing Project—a vast network of some of the nation’s top scientists to create programs to simulate wind farm…
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