Federal tech, grounded in execution.
Innovation in Government is a practical federal technology interview series hosted by Jason Miller. Recent conversations center on operational technology security, AI-ready data, no-code platforms, cyber tool consolidation, and measurable improvements to citizen and provider services.
PRESS PLAY
Innovation in Government is a federal technology interview show built around practical modernization work. Jason Miller hosts with a steady, context-first style. He usually opens by naming the agency pressure point: a cybersecurity directive, an AI use-case count, a customer-experience mandate, a data-management rule, or a recent threat pattern. From there, conversations move into the mechanics. Recent episodes spend serious time on cybersecurity. Guests discuss operational technology, air-gapped systems that are no longer cleanly isolated, critical infrastructure, cloud configuration, and the way connected devices widen the attack surface. The show is especially attentive to places where old assumptions break down. Pipelines, power grids, loading docks, handheld supply-chain devices, and traffic systems all become part of the federal security conversation. Data is the other recurring spine. Episodes return to the need for usable, standardized, searchable information before agencies can expect strong AI, better service delivery, or reliable zero-trust outcomes. The show does not treat AI as magic. It frames AI as a tool that depends on policy, governance, leadership sponsorship, diverse internal feedback, and clear business goals. Customer experience also gets a concrete treatment. Discussions touch on contact-center calls, provider portals, post-transaction surveys, sentiment analysis, and public notices that people can actually understand. Low-code and no-code platforms appear as a way to avoid brittle custom systems and rigid commercial rollouts. Security tooling is handled with similar pragmatism. Episodes ask whether agencies need more niche products, broader suites, or better use of licenses they already own. The tone is professional and specific. It suits listeners who know government technology is shaped by rules, budgets, workforce limits, and mission needs as much as by new software. Innovation in Government is strongest when it translates policy and vendor language into the operational choices facing federal teams right now.
Made for: For federal technology leaders, public-sector vendors, CIO teams, cybersecurity practitioners, data managers, and policy-aware listeners tracking modernization inside government agencies.
What sets it apart: The show ties emerging technology to agency constraints: mandates, legacy systems, rules, security risk, and measurable service outcomes. It favors implementation detail over hype.
Learn from industry experts who enable innovation and make government more responsive and secure by advancing key technologies. Innovation in government examines a wide range of topics and evaluates their payoff.
A confusing Social Security notice makes AI hype fill out a form before you believe it.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at why cybersecurity suites gain appeal when organizations already own tools they have not put to work.
This episode follows cybersecurity consolidation from federal direction to cloud risk to the pull of broader tool suites. Jason Miller's conversation with Nate Fitzgerald, Head of Product Management for the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom, gives the subject a practical…
Low-code promise meets the harder work of usable federal data.
Government technology rarely stalls because another application is missing. It stalls when data arrives in forms people cannot easily use, and when standards are not funded, measured, or tied to anyone's incentives.
A grounded look at government data strategy, AI governance, and service delivery shaped around human impact.
Government service improvement comes through here as a data problem with real human stakes. Jason Miller and Emily Landbauer, Vice President of Federal at Qualtrics, tie agency customer-experience goals, including TSA pre-check waits and USCIS naturalization processing, to the…
A handheld scanner can become the bridge between a loading dock and the corporate network.
Cybersecurity risk becomes clearest when it moves from the headline to the loading dock. Innovation in Government tracks Jason Miller's conversation with Mike Reimert, Senior Vice President of the Network Security Group and Field CISO at Ivanti, across nation-state attacks,…
Enterprise IT after the sales deck.
Enterprise AI starts with better data.
Candid enterprise data talk, minus the gloss.
Jason Miller hosts Stretch Meyer of Axonius Federal and Heather Young of Clarity on how agencies can protect operational technology that runs pipelines, power grids, traffic signals, and water systems.
Nate Fitzgerald says agencies are backing away from 100% cloud dependence because data sovereignty rules have increased by an average of 10 per year globally over the last decade.
["Donna Roy says federal agencies process 106 billion forms a year, spend 10.5 billion public hours on paperwork, and have only 2% of forms digitized as dynamic online forms.", "Roy, a former DHS head of data management who ran NIEM and now works with Smartsheet, says USCIS had 80 forms with 80% shared data and FEMA had 60 disaster-assistance forms across agencies and partners.", "She argues that the real bottleneck is data architecture and standards, because agencies keep building form-by-form fixes while USCIS, FEMA, and other programs keep paying for rekeying errors.", "Roy says no-code tools can map rows to forms, drive workflows, and add e-signature steps, with the Army Corps of Engineers change-order process as the clearest use case."]
Jason Miller frames the discussion around the Government Service Delivery Improvement Act, OMB guidance, and agencies trying to close the customer-experience gap with the private sector.
Mike Reimert says nation-state attackers have become more sophisticated, and Jason Miller frames the interview around what United States agencies can do about it.
Jason Miller interviews Chris Townsend, Elastic's Vice President of Public Sector, about helping federal agencies operationalize data across siloed cloud and on-premise environments.
Jason Miller interviews Chris Townsend, Elastic's vice president of public sector, about operationalizing federal data across siloed cloud and on-premise environments.
Wole Moses, Chief AI Officer for Civilian at Microsoft Federal, says federal agencies now have more than 1,700 AI use cases, including SSA analysis of tens of thousands of call-center conversations.
Jason Miller interviews Wole Moses, Microsoft Federal's Chief AI Officer for Civilian, about more than 1,700 federal AI use cases and their effects on agency missions.
Jason Miller interviews Gina Sinta of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies about securing AI systems as quantum computing threatens current cryptography.
Jason Miller interviews Gina Sinta of Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies about securing government AI systems as quantum computing advances.
Jason Miller, Michael Hornsby, and Mia Jordan examine how OMB Circular A-11's Fiscal 2026 guidance makes employee experience an overarching part of government customer experience.
Jason Miller, Michael Hornsby, and Mia Jordan examine how OMB Circular A-11 and Section 280 connect employee experience with government customer experience.
Jason Miller interviews Cameron Cherry, Intel's Vice President and General Manager for Global Public Sector Sales, about implementing AI in government through data management and enterprise architecture.
Jason Miller interviews Cameron Cherry, Intel Corporation's Vice President and General Manager for Global Public Sector Sales, about applying artificial intelligence in government.
Innovation in Government examines how federal agencies can move artificial intelligence from more than 700 documented use cases toward secure, high-value outcomes.
Jason Miller interviews JP Marcellino, Dell Federal's AI ML Alliances Manager, about federal agencies turning AI experiments into secure production systems.
Jason Miller interviews Cindy Carter, Check Point Software Technologies' Global Chief Information Security Officer for the Americas, about preparing government agencies for artificial intelligence.
Cindy Carter, Check Point Software Technologies' Global Chief Information Security Officer for the Americas, tells host Jason Miller that CISOs should identify the problem before deploying AI.
Innovation in Government examines end-to-end observability for government agencies managing on-premise, cloud, and legacy systems.
Jason Miller interviews Brian Mickelson, Datadog's Vice President and General Manager for U.S.
Barry LeFue, Vice President of In-Q-Tel's Government Platform Accelerator, explains how the organization connects national-security agencies with commercial startups in AI, cyber, space, energy, and biotechnology.
Barry LaFue, Vice President of the Government Platform Accelerator at In-Q-Tel, explains how IQT connects commercial startups with U.S.
Jason Miller interviews Wayne LaRich of Palo Alto Networks Federal about SASE, Secure Access Service Edge, as a framework for implementing zero trust in government agencies.
Jason Miller and Wayne LaRich explain why federal agencies are treating Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as a framework for zero trust rather than a standalone product.
Interview with Neo4j's CPO on how graph databases help federal agencies unify complex data for better decision-making.
Interview with Neo4j's CPO about using graph databases to unify complex data and improve decision-making in federal agencies.
Host Jason Miller interviews Chris Townsend from Elastic about how federal agencies are breaking down data silos and operationalizing data to support their missions.
An interview discussing the challenges and opportunities of multi-cloud adoption in federal agencies, featuring a Dell Technologies expert.