The Government Technology Insider Podcast

In the “Meeting Public Safety Needs for the Department of Defense: A Podcast” interview, Tetoya Gibson, Retired Air Force, DoD Crisis Response Manager at Verizon Frontline; and Calvin Jackson, Crisis Response Manager, Northeast at Verizon Frontline, shared insights into how the DoD can better meet current and future public safety challenges.

Pop-up and emergency networks are temporary connections that organizations can use to bridge coverage gaps or provide reliable communications during a man-made crisis, natural disaster, or even large-scale public events. These networks are practical and relevant today because they are easy to implement and cost-effective to deploy. By leveraging pop-up and emergency networks, agencies can ensure dependable connections during critical moments, minimizing disruptions, and restoring essential services

To implement a true Zero Trust approach and provide the next level of protection for data and users, agencies need to move beyond compliance. We spoke with Hansang Bae, Chief Technologist, Public Sector at Zscaler, to learn more.

Following the award of the DoD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Maximus Cloud expert Frank Reyes explained how defense & IC agencies can reap the benefits of multi-cloud.

While future cybersecurity threats from quantum cryptography and quantum computers are nascent, agencies must start hardening their communications infrastructures from these new attacks. Quantum has numerous applications within the federal government as it is ideally suited to protect sensitive information such as healthcare data, financial information, and classified intelligence.In the “Hardening Federal Infrastructures Against Quantum Threats” interview, Lamont Copeland, Director of Federal

All branches of the United States military are currently facing a recruitment crisis.Despite understanding that recruitment needs to follow a different format, many military recruitment centers are located in areas with standard Internet network connectivity. As a result, they still rely on legacy technology, making it difficult to connect with today’s recruits.With recruiters working harder than ever to build the next generation of America’s fighting forces, they need to be able to connect and

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides federal agencies with the ability to improve the resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure. The Department of Energy (DOE) is the largest consumer of data and is tightly linked to other critical infrastructure systems and is in desperate need of modernization. Recently the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) partnered with Maximus to use technology solutions like High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence/Machine