NEW Episode of Fed Gov Today featuring OPM Director Scott Kupor

Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), is approaching his workforce agenda with a clear-eyed assessment: the federal government is not attracting enough early-career talent. Today, only about 7% of federal employees have fewer than ten years of experience—far below the roughly 22% seen outside government. Kupor sees this gap as both a warning sign and an opportunity to modernize how agencies recruit, reward, and support the next generation of public servants, especially in technology fields.

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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