Episode 11: The Specter of AI
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Episode 11: The Specter of AI

Debt Deal’s done. Now we can go back to worrying about the specter of AI!

Tech Guru & AlphaAdvisors.xyz founder Kyle Murphy joins the GovNavigators to break down AI; what it means for you & government in a way even we can understand. Essential listening.

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Episode 9: Best Places to Work in Government
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Episode 9: Best Places to Work in Government

Max Stier, Founding President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service and Brooke Bollyky, Managing Director and Partner, North America Public Sector Practice Lead at BCG join the GovNavigators Podcast to talk about the results of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Government report.

Robert and Adam also mark the 20th anniversary of the Chief Human Capital Officer's Council and debate the merits of the IRS taking on private sector software company TurboTax, among other competitors in the tax prep software space.

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Episode 8: Corndogg Unleashed!
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Episode 8: Corndogg Unleashed!

Friend of the show Matthew Cornelius joins the GovNavigators Podcast to reflect on his time on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and his contributions to federal IT policy over his career. He also dishes some dirt and shares shocking personal facts about his time in college.

Robert and Adam also cover breaking news out of GAO (?!), the battle of the bots, and debate who got the better invite to events celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.

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Episode 7: Lessons from the COVID War
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Episode 7: Lessons from the COVID War

This week, Robert and Adam are joined by Doug Criscitello and Dr. Monique Mansoura, two of 34 renown experts who came together to sift through an enormous amount of information related to COVID to try to makes some sense of it all.

Doug and Monique share their insights and takeaways from a plain-spoken and clear sighted book the group published titled "Lessons from the COVID War."

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Episode 6: Cyber Resiliency with Former Fed CIO Tony Scott
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Episode 6: Cyber Resiliency with Former Fed CIO Tony Scott

This week on the GovNavigators Podcast, Robert and Adam discuss Speaker McCarthy's triumph taking all night to pass a bill that will never become law and OPM's release of its new data strategy. Also, former Federal CIO Tony Scott joins to talk about the importance of cyber resiliency.

And don’t sleep on the very end, when you’ll hear the first (but likely not the last) visit from the Office of Standards to the podcast.

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Episode 5: Moving Dirt and Welding Stuff: A Technical Dive into Policy in Action in the Energy Sector
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Episode 5: Moving Dirt and Welding Stuff: A Technical Dive into Policy in Action in the Energy Sector

Sandwiched between a discussion of the Professional Services Council annual conference, the release of the biennial GAO High Risk List, and a look at the week ahead, the GovNavigators talked with Independence Hydrogen's urbane CFO, Owen Barwell.

Owen walked Robert Shea and Adam Hughes through the journey from problem identification, study, and policy shaping to solution development using Independence Hydrogen's veteran-run effort to provide communities access to affordable, low-carbon hydrogen as an example.

Moving Dirt. Welding stuff. Government at work, indeed.

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Episode 4: An Optimistic View from Capitol Hill
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Episode 4: An Optimistic View from Capitol Hill

Friend of the show Charles Cooper from Brumidi Group joins the podcast this week to share some keen observations and his optimistic view from Capitol Hill as Congress returns to Washington.

In the news, Robert and Adam have somewhat opposing views on a new OMB memo strongly encouraging federal employees to return to the office and the upcoming release on quite an auspicious day of GAO's High Risk List.

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