Critical Update
Nextgov's Critical Update explores the future of government technology. Each episode, we dive into how the government is using the latest tech and more importantly, you’ll hear from some of the people who are trying to make change possible.Podcasts
Critical Update: A Technical Farewell and the Emergiest News of 2022
Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes
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Critical Update: Safeguarding Data From Outside Intrusion
Published: Nov. 21, 2022, 5:56 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 56 seconds
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Critical Update: How Data Analytics and AI Algorithms Can Prioritize Trust
Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 2:09 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds
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Critical Update: Leveraging Data to Achieve Mission
Published: Nov. 7, 2022, 9:37 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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Critical Update: Gaming the (Solar) System
Published: Sept. 19, 2022, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 35 seconds
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Critical Update: How NASA Might One Day Send Humans Into Outer Space
Published: Sept. 2, 2022, 5:23 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 6 seconds
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Critical Update: The Information ConstellationHow NOAA Data Ends up in Forecasts
Published: Aug. 22, 2022, 8:31 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 5 seconds
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Critical Update: Where the Final Frontier Meets Your Front Door
Published: Aug. 8, 2022, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds
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Critical Update: To Bridge Quantums Valley of Death, Labs Need Funding and Workforce
Published: June 3, 2022, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds
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Critical Update: The Good Death Is Our Only Goal
Published: May 23, 2022, 7:44 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Critical Update: Evolution in the 'Valley of Death'
Published: May 10, 2022, 1:31 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 8 seconds
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HED: Critical Update: Bridging the Defense Departments Valley of Death
Published: April 25, 2022, 4:31 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 53 seconds
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Critical Update: The Call for Greater Software Transparency is Louder than Ever
Published: April 5, 2022, 1:54 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 25 seconds
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Critical Update: Inching Closer to the Long-Awaited, Next Generation of Supercomputers
Published: March 21, 2022, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 51 seconds
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Critical Update: Flashback to the Governments Cloud Anxiety, Even Before SolarWinds
Published: March 7, 2022, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 4 seconds
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Critical Update: Revisiting the Governments Evolving-But-Still-Complicated Relationship with UFOs
Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 4:38 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 2 seconds
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How the National Science Foundation is Innovating for its Innovators
Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds
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Federal CIO Explains the Tech Side of Presidents Management Agenda
Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds
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Veterans Affairs Applies Mixed Reality Tech to Solve Real-World Health Issues
Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 1:55 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 55 seconds
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The Federal CISO is Prioritizing Flexibility for Agencies
Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds
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Cryptocurrencies to Save the Day?
Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
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When Seeing No Longer Means Believing, Whats a Government to Do?
Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 16 seconds
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How Federal Agencies Can Help Avert Quantum Catastrophe
Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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How the Controversial JEDI Contract Changed the Pentagon
Published: July 27, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 4 seconds
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How to Develop Apps for Supercomputers that Dont Exist Yet
Published: June 1, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds
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Do You Know Whats in Your Software?
Published: May 18, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds
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What Platform One Brings to the Pentagons Software Game
Published: May 4, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 43 seconds
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The Programmers of Public Service
Published: April 20, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 43 seconds
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Disrupting Gene Editing
Published: March 23, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
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Lets Talk About UFOs
Published: March 9, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 18 seconds
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Whos Afraid of EMPs?
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 3 seconds
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Machine Beat Man in DARPAs AlphaDogfight Trials. Now What?
Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 11 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds
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Why Having Artificial Intelligence Talent is a National Security Issue
Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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Did COVID-19 Push More Agencies Into the Cloud?
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 13 seconds
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Inside NASAs Digital Transformation
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds
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The Governments Cloud Anxiety
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
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What a Treasury Office is Learning from Its Blockchain Projects
Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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NASAs Big Plans For the Moon and Beyond
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 21 seconds
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Why a Government Vulnerability Disclosure Program Is a Big Deal
Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds
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GSA's Centers of Excellence Program Evolves
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds
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Reinventing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Published: July 28, 2020, 11:39 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds
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How Veterans Shaped a Coronavirus Chatbot
Published: June 30, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds
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COVID-19 Challenges Test Veterans Affairs' Customer Experience Office
Published: June 16, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 2 seconds
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National Labs Pivoted to Help Fight COVID-19. Here's How.
Published: June 2, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds
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Why the Pentagons Cybersecurity Certification Program Inspires Hope and Fear
Published: May 19, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds
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Bonus Episode: Teleworking Securely During the Pandemic
Published: May 12, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 44 seconds
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How State Department IT Was Set Up to Deal with COVID-19
Published: May 5, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 19 seconds
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How the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Plans to Run Better, Cheaper, Faster Tech
Published: April 23, 2020, noonDuration: 25 minutes 44 seconds
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How CISA Defines Trust in the Trusted Internet Connection Policy
Published: April 7, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds
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How the Coronavirus is Changing Federal Work
Published: March 31, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 10 seconds
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The Hidden Threats of 5G
Published: Sept. 25, 2019, noonDuration: 21 minutes 23 seconds
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The Defenders Dilemma
Published: Sept. 18, 2019, noonDuration: 26 minutes 33 seconds
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How Hackers Get Stuck In HADES
Published: Sept. 11, 2019, noonDuration: 32 minutes 8 seconds
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Coming soon: The New Cyber Landscape
Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
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Containing Chernobyl
Published: July 9, 2019, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 37 seconds
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How the Labor Department Works to Hook Its Employees
Published: June 25, 2019, 4:18 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds
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Improving the Tech That Feeds America
Published: June 18, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds
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Inside DARPAs DARPA
Published: June 11, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds
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Defense Digital Service: A New Hope
Published: June 4, 2019, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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At Your Digital Service, Part 2
Published: May 28, 2019, 2:38 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds
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At Your Digital Service, Part 1
Published: May 21, 2019, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds
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3 Critical Programs
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds
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The Shutdown Edition
Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 3:29 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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The New Congress (And a Shutdown)
Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 10 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds
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What Government Doesnt Get About the Social Media War
Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 4:38 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 54 seconds
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Assessing the Cybersecurity Landscape with Rep. Jim Langevin
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds
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Bonus Episode: Agencies Need More R&R (Recruitment and Retention)
Published: June 27, 2018, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds
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Bonus Episode: Facing a Growing Cyber Threat
Published: April 26, 2018, 6:53 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 26 seconds
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Making the Business Case
Published: April 17, 2018, 9 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 8 seconds
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Sneak Peek of Episode 2
Published: April 10, 2018, 4:30 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
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Getting Government Ready for What's Next
Published: March 28, 2018, 7:43 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 31 seconds
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