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How Government Built This: Cyber’s Elite Forces – How Air National Guard Puts People First with Artificial Intelligence to Drive Digital Transformation

August 30, 2022 Episode 71
The Buzz with ACT-IAC
How Government Built This: Cyber’s Elite Forces – How Air National Guard Puts People First with Artificial Intelligence to Drive Digital Transformation
Show Notes

Welcome to  “How Government Built This,” a six-part podcast and blog post series developed by the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service Office of Financial Innovation and Transformation (FIT) in collaboration with The Buzz with ACT-IAC.

This week, host Jacqueline French interviews Lt. Col Andrew Wonpat, member of the Air National Guard's 175th Network Warfare Squadron. In his current assignment, he serves as a Cyber Capabilities Development Strategist with U.S. Air Force (USAF) Futures, with the mission of exploring non-traditional force structure and future cyber capability development.

In this episode, Lt. Col Wonpat discusses the CYDE-CARS initiative, and AI-driven project to find new ways of identifying ideal candidates to built high-performing teams. He also discusses a people-first approach to digital transformation and encourages outside-the-box thinking when it comes to organizational initiatives

CYDE-CARS is open to agencies across government. For more information on CYDE-CARS, please reach out to Lt Col Andrew Wonpat at andrew.r.wonpat.mil@mail.mil.

 References

1.     For more information on ACT-IAC’s Emerging Technology Accelerator, please reach out to Jackie French at jfrenc27@alumni.jh.edu.

2.     ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest (COI) “People as the Strongest Link: Emerging Trends in Human Centered Design and Customer Experience Approaches for Cybersecurity” June Monthly Meeting.

3.     ACT-IAC Use Case Summit taking place on September 20, 2022, from 9 AM to 12 PM at the General Services Administration’s headquarters and online.

4.     ACT-IAC Cybersecurity Forum 2022 taking place on October 12, 2022, from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the Renaissance Washington, DC, Downtown Hotel.

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Intro/Outro Music: Focal Point/Young Community
Courtesy of Epidemic Sound