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Pentagon wants to be ‘approachable’ for small businesses

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The goal is to make sure that we have access to new ideas as quickly as possible so we can bring them in and drive innovation through the defense industrial base. It allows the industry to submit white papers at any time. “They can come into the system and not be as overwhelmed by the FAR process.

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The Hard Truths of Data Security in the Public Sector

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His experience spans driving innovation as a cybersecurity leader for global organizations and CISOs to corporate executive building products and services. He has built and grown cybersecurity companies and led large cybersecurity programs within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

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Thoughts on the AI Safety Summit from a public sector procurement & use of AI perspective

How to Crack a Nut

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’

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Learning from Log4j: How to Keep Government Applications Secure (E127)

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He has led and executed a wide variety of computer security reviews to evaluate the adequacy of information systems general and application controls. Close Chief Security Officer, Delaware Dept. He understands tracking and making sense of systems and data that has grown beyond human ability.

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Zero Trust Needed to Win the Cyber War (E157)

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From January 2020 to January 2022, La Monte served as CISO for HHS’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) where he spearheaded a multidisciplinary cybersecurity team comprised of IT professionals, auditors, evaluators, investigators and attorneys focused on combatting cybersecurity threats within HHS and the healthcare industry.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

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However, its findings are sufficiently worrying as to require a much more robust policy intervention that the proposals in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’ ( for discussion, see here ). The issue is further compounded by the lack of standards and metrics.

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SOCOM cuts years out of some SBIR phase 3 awards

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Special Forces Command’s small business innovation research program is unique compared to other similar efforts around government. If needed for assisting in screening and evaluation, the PI can hire or contract with subject matter experts on a rapid basis to gain the expertise needed to assess state of the art proposals.”