Critical Update: A Quantum Leap
Quantum computers will be able to crack our encryption but when?
Critical Update: The Hidden Threats of 5G
Nextgov goes inside the technology that will underpin billions of interconnected devices.
Critical Update: The Defender’s Dilemma
Soon the Homeland Security Department will be able to compete for cyber talent without the shackles of the federal government’s rigid paytable.
Critical Update: How Hackers Get Stuck In HADES
For the fourth season of Critical Update, the Nextgov team is diving into the latest developments in cybersecurity, beginning with the world’s biggest honeypot.
Critical Update: Containing Chernobyl
We’re joined by an engineer who helped build the final containment structure at Chernobyl, in a race against time, bureaucracy and the aftermath of the Soviet Union.
Critical Update: How Labor Works to Hook Its Employees
Work doesn’t have to feel like work.
Critical Update: Peering Into the Agriculture Department’s Digital Transformation
One of the Agriculture Department’s top officials talks about how the agency is using technology to serve its customers better.
Critical Update: Inside DARPA's DARPA
Valerie Browning, director of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, discusses self-aware machines, the future of quantum computing and preventing technology surprises.
Critical Update: Get Stuff Done
Except he didn’t say “stuff.” Defense Digital Service co-founders join the podcast to talk security clearances, big cloud procurements and plenty of Star Wars.
Critical Update: At Your Digital Service, Part 2
We talk with U.S. Digital Service project managers for a ground-level view of what it really takes to make innovation happen in government.
Critical Update: Innovation Happens Naturally—With a Lot of Work
U.S. Digital Service Administrator Matt Cutts joins the podcast to talk about the current state—and future of—one of the most wide-reaching innovation programs in government.
Critical Update: Enter The Innovators
Season 3 of Critical Update kicks off with a mythbusting session on what it means to be innovative in government.
Critical Update: 3 Major Programs to Watch in 2019
To wrap season two, we run down three programs with high stakes for the agencies in play, as well as the rest of government.
Critical Update: No End in Sight For Shutdown as Costs Mount
The partial government shutdown is having dire effects across the country, not just at federal agencies.
Critical Update: Government Contracting Trends for 2019
In the latest episode of Critical Update, we address everything from OTAs to the government shutdown’s impact on contracting.
Critical Update: The New Congress (And a Shutdown)
New leaders mean new priorities—and the partial shutdown is affecting some of those decisions.
Critical Update: How Marines Started 3D Printing Everything From Buckles to Barracks
Marines have a long history of MacGyver-ing what they need, but this unit has given them a 21st-century twist.
Critical Update: Government’s Not Prepared for the Social Media War
Social could be as important to the future of war and politics as the telephone and telegraph, Peter Singer writes in his new book “LikeWar.”
Critical Update: Cyber Leadership Has to Come from the Top
Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus co-founder Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., wants more cabinet secretaries to make cyber a top priority.
Critical Update: Rep. Will Hurd Explains Why Everyone Should Care About Government Tech
For episode 5, Nextgov goes to Capitol Hill to talk with one of the most persistent voices on federal IT management and reform.
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