The Buzz with ACT-IAC
Welcome to The Buzz with ACT-IAC – your source for the hot topics and top issues affecting the federal technology market. Join us each week to hear insights from government and industry leaders, stay informed on the topics facing government, gain access to thought leadership and valuable reports. Subscribe to follow us on your favorite podcast platform.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 177
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Scaling Technology and the ARPA Model with William Bonvillian
After the Soviet Union shocked the United States by successfully launching the first artificial satellite in 1957, President Eisenhower recognized the need to accelerate our nation's research and dev…
How Government Built This: Encouraging Change by Putting People First at the Department of the Treasury
Welcome to the final episode of “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Inn…
How Government Built This: How the Department of Transportation is Driving Digital Transformation with a Focus on Safety, and Resilient Infrastructure
Welcome to “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transfor…
Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Tax Code with Beverly Moran
Ah, tax season. Though certainly not everyone’s favorite time of year, filing a tax return is perhaps the most notable interaction with the Federal Government that nearly every working American exper…
How Government Built This: Balancing the Bottom-Up, Top-Down Approach at Canada’s Office of the Auditor General
Welcome to “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transfor…
Health Inequities and the COVID-19 Response with LaRon Nelson
Because of the peculiar perception of time that we have collectively experienced throughout the pandemic, it may feel odd that the US only began rolling out COVID vaccines in the beginning of last ye…
How Government Built This: How DHS Focuses on Strategic Partnerships to Jumpstart Digital Transformation
Welcome to “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transfor…
Civil Service in American Government with Donald Moynihan
Rather than being explicitly created by the US Constitution, the administrative agencies that make up the Federal bureaucracy have emerged through subsequent acts of Congress. As the United States gr…
How Government Built This: Cyber’s Elite Forces – How Air National Guard Puts People First with Artificial Intelligence to Drive Digital Transformation
Welcome to “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transfor…
From the Archives: The Federal Perspective from 11 Years Ago
This week, join the Buzz for a journey to the distant past of 2011.
Over a decade ago, ACT-IAC's ELC Conference featured a keynote from Steve VanRoekel, who served as Federal CIO from 2011-2014.
In his…
How Government Built This: How USDA is Paving the Way for Digital Transformation
Welcome to “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transfor…
The Keys to Estonia's Success with Taavi Kotka
This week, The Buzz presents a follow-up from last month's episode exploring the basics of digital services in Estonia.
In this episode, we'll hear more about e-Estonia from someone who had a signifi…
How Synthetic Data Can Improve AI in Medicine with Dr. Amanda Purnell
Artificial Intelligence technologies continue to develop in leaps and bounds with each passing year, and their impact on our lives will only become more salient as these tools increase in complexity …
ICYMI: AI in Mission Decision-Making
This week, The Buzz with ACT-IAC presents a session from the 2022 Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference.
This panel features a discussion among agency CIO's and industry leaders about how emer…
Reflections on a Career in Federal Service with Maria Roat
After a storied, four-decade career in federal IT, Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat retired in March of this year. Maria spent 25 years in the Navy and Naval Reserve, then served in leadership roles in …
How to Build a Digital Society from Scratch with Carmen Raal
On the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, south of Finland and west of Russia, lies the nation of Estonia. Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, this tiny-but-mighty country has em…
Lessons in Digital Transformation from Government and Industry
This week, The Buzz with ACT-IAC presents a discussion about the many pieces of successful digital transformation - cultural change, new software and technologies, service design and more - from lea…
Adapting to IT Supply Chain Risks with Leo Alvarez
Software development and hardware manufacturing has become increasingly globalized over the last 10 years. A single application can contain hundreds, or even thousands, of software components sourced…
Building Trust through Service Design with Eddie Hartwig
Earlier this year, the United Nations Development Program released a special report entitled “New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene”, which details some of the unique, large-scale issues …
Service Delivery from the Farm to the Wildlands at USDA
Last year, the Biden Administration issued a series of executive orders directing federal agencies to study and measure the effectiveness of government programs - both for program recipients and the …