The Buzz with ACT-IAC

This week, the Buzz is partnering with ACT-IAC's Federal Insights Exchange (FIE). The FIE program hosts short-form conversations between industry and agency leaders to share success stories, challeng…

This week, the Buzz presents a recorded session from our first ever Resilient Infrastructure Summit, held on April 17th.

This fireside chat features Edward Saltzberg, Executive Director of the Securi…

Global average temperatures have risen roughly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, but more than half of that change has come only in the last 4 decades.

And in the next 3 decades, we are on track to se…

If “data is the new oil” as British mathematician Clive Humby famously said in 2006, then perhaps artificial intelligence is the new plastics – a novel application of an existing raw material. 

 Thoug…

The Department of Justice – home to our nation’s most prominent law enforcement agencies (sorry Park Rangers) and US attorneys’ offices. With more than 40 separate component agencies and over 115,000…

 With 2023’s tax deadline fast approaching, our thoughts turn once again to the peculiarities of America’s filing system. Instead of the IRS interacting directly with the public for annual tax prepar…

This week, The Buzz presents a recorded session from our 2023 Shared Services Summit, which took place on March 21st.

National Security Memoradum (NSM)-10, released last year, outlines the Administra…

In January of this year, the Biden administration published The U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, to surprisingly little fanfare. I agree it’s not the sexiest title, but tra…

After more than 34 years of federal service, acquisitions pioneer Mary Davie announced her retirement at the end of 2022. Much of her career was spent at the GSA, guiding development of well-known pr…

This week, The Buzz presents a session from ACT-IAC's January C-SCRM Forum.

The federal government has identified Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) as one of the pillars of a safe a…

Even for those with significant experience in the technology field, the concept of quantum computing can feel intimidating. After all, it is a field involving  the notoriously complex theories govern…

"Innovation" is one of those words that has, unfortunately, been used so frequently as to almost be without meaning. What began as an economic term to describe productivity gains from technology, has…

In the annals of tech history, few places carry as weighty a reputation as Silicon Valley. The very name is synonymous with the US technology sector. Somehow, this small region of Northern California…

This week, the Buzz presents a presentation from our Small Business Alliance.

The ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance is member community chartered to promote the interests and contributions of small busi…

This week, the Buzz presents some more highlights from last year's ELC conference.

Veteran broadcaster and interviewer Francis Rose closed out ELC 2022 with two insightful interviews about how federal…

Much like the government's legacy IT systems, the federal workforce has grown a bit long in the tooth. Based on OPM data collected in 2017, it is estimated that roughly 30% of the federal workforce w…

For our last episode of 2022, The Buzz is revisiting some of the big ideas from the last year in the federal technology sector. We'll return in 2023. Happy Holidays!

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Unpacking DeFi and Fina…

This week, The Buzz presents a panel from our 2022 CX Summit.

High-Impact Service Providers (HISPs) are federal entities that provide necessary services directly to the American public, as designated…

This week, The Buzz presents a keynote session from ACT-IAC's ELC 2022 Conference.

GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan joined Winnie Lin, VP of Government and Administrative Services at Peraton, to share…

Everyone loves a nice local business. In a world increasingly dominated by enormous, faceless corporations, it's always nice to walk into a brick-and-mortar establishment and know that the business's…