Inside Washington’s Reset: How AI, Cyber Wellness, and the New PMA Are Reshaping Government

The episode begins with a discussion of the Trump administration’s new President’s Management Agenda, as former OMB officials Loren DeJonge Schulman and Margaret Weichert highlight continuity across administrations and stress the importance of accountability, metrics, agency ownership, and congressional support for sustained progress.

The program then examines technology transformation at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where Christen MacMillan of Maximus explains how AI, automation, and telehealth expand access and reduce administrative burden. The final segment features NIH CIT CISO Jothi Dugar on building cyber wellness through transparency, empathy, and leadership.

Innovation in Government: TechNet Indo-Pacific

At AFCEA’s TechNet Indo-Pacific, Innovation in Government explored how technology, strategy, and collaboration are transforming defense operations across the vast Indo-Pacific theater. From the tactical edge to the boardroom, leaders from industry and government shared how artificial intelligence, zero trust, automation, and resilient architectures are advancing national security. The conversations underscored both the urgency and complexity of operating in the world’s most dynamic region — where distance, data, and deterrence intersect.

Topics include Stabilizing the Mission During Disruption, Persistent Global Sensing and the Indo-Pacific, Zero Trust and Agility at the Edge, Governing Trusted AI with Practical Guardrails, AI Speed with Human-in-the-Loop Assurance, Innovation at the Tactical Edge, Mission Resiliency in Disconnected Operations. 

The Intelligent Border: Fast. Agile. Secure.

The latest episode of Modernizing Government: The EY Insight explores how data, cloud, and emerging technologies are reshaping the mission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the federal government at large. Francis Rose hosts discussions with George Kaczmarskyj, Principal for Government and Public Sector at EY, and Mark James, Executive Director of the Enterprise Cloud Services Division at CBP.

Filmed on location at the EY Center for Government Modernization, the conversations highlight lessons learned from commercial sectors like financial services, the importance of data governance and trust, CBP’s cloud migration journey, the adoption of AI and edge computing, and the future of secure, agile border operations. Together, they shed light on how a fast, agile, and secure intelligent border is being built.

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