The Pentagon’s Billion-Dollar Bet on America’s Defense Supply Chain

David Lorch, Director of the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), says the OSC serves as a bridge between capabilities the United States needs for national security and what the private sector can currently provide. OSC identifies shortages, gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and uses capital to help close them.

That means OSC is not simply looking for promising companies or technologies. Lorch says national security is the starting point for every investment decision.

“We apply the same methodology that we do in the private sector, just with a different goal,” Lorch explains. While private investors generally seek a financial return, OSC’s goal is U.S. national security.

Innovation in Government: DevSecOps at Mission Speed

Recorded at the Carahsoft DevSecOps Conference, this episode of Innovation in Government explores how federal technology leaders are using artificial intelligence, automation, platform engineering, open architectures and continuous security to deliver capabilities faster without losing control of risk. 

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.