The Integration Space Race: How Space Command Is Building Decision Advantage

During an interview with Fed Gov Today at DoDIIS 2026, Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander of U.S. Space Command, and Rob Shaffer, the command’s Deputy Director of Intelligence, explain how partnerships, artificial intelligence and commercial data are helping the command pursue decision advantage in an increasingly congested and contested environment.

For Whiting, the need for integration starts with the sheer scale of space.

“No single country, no single service, no single agency, no single company can do all the things we have to do in space to be successful,” Whiting says.

Innovation in Government: DoDIIS 2026

From zero trust and artificial intelligence assurance to data-centric modernization and cyber intelligence, leaders from across the intelligence and defense communities are rethinking how technology supports the mission. Recorded at DoDIIS 2026, these conversations explore how government and industry are moving beyond collaboration toward deeper integration—while keeping security, trust, workforce readiness and operational outcomes at the center.

Cyber by Design: Building Security and Resilience Into Government Modernization

Cybersecurity is becoming inseparable from the way federal agencies modernize technology, processes and mission delivery. In the latest episode of “Modernizing Government: The EY Insight,” Dr. Justin Ubert, Division Chief for Cybersecurity & Operations at the Federal Transit Administration, Department of Transportation, and Rob Brougham, Principal of Cybersecurity at EY, joined Fed Gov Today host Francis Rose at the EY Center for Government Modernization to discuss why agencies must move beyond treating cybersecurity as a compliance exercise and instead design security into modernization from the beginning.