Innovation Was Everywhere at Imagine Nation ELC 2022 (Hershey Chocolate, too!)
The opening keynote fireside chat with GSA Administrator, Robin Carnahan, really set the tone for the rest of the conference, placing innovation and collaboration at its center. Though the official theme for the 2022 Imagine Nation Executive Leadership Conference (ELC) was “From Progress to Possibility”, it could have easily been “From Collaboration to Innovation.” READ MORE
2022 Emerging Technology Conference Award Winner Highlight | Threat, Identification, Determination, Evaluation (TIDE)
On May 24, 2022, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Federal Protective Service (FPS) received ACT IAC’s prestigious Innovation Champion Award for its facility threat assessment tool.
TIDE software provides objective, facility-specific evaluations of likely threats to the approximately 9,500 federal facilities that FPS serves, thereby alerting the facilities of their most pressing threats, which will ultimately drive the need for security-related upgrades and mitigation methods.” READ MORE
ACT-IAC presented its annual Leadership Awards during its Imagine Nation ELC Conference. View the complete list of ACT-IAC 2022 Leadership Award Winners.
A Word with Award Winners
In partnership with Federal News Network, ACT-IAC CEO Dave Wennergren spoke with three of the outstanding federal technology leaders who received ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards. LISTEN HERE
ACT-IAC White Paper | CMMC 2.0: Best Practices and Recommendations for a Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0
Written by Master of Science in Information Systems students at the Indiana University Bloomington in partnership with the ACT-IAC Cybersecurity COI, this paper introduces the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. READ MORE
FedHeads Welcomes ACT-IAC’s Dave Wennergren
ACT-IAC CEO Dave Wennergren joined FedHeads Host Robert Shea to discuss the recent Imagine Nation ELC, ACT-IAC FITARA scorecard report, and other hot topics in the nation’s capital. LISTEN HERE
Can You Procure Innovation?
Is Innovation something civilian agencies can acquire or procure through a contract? It depends on how you define innovation. READ MORE
HEALTH INNOVATION: An On-going Series Hosted by Kyle Keenan, Peraton Health Provider SME
Don’t Fumble Your Digital Transformation
In an effort to increase public and private innovation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed an R&D agreement with Google to design and produce new open-source chips and ultimately secure the chip production supply chain. READ MORE
Assessing Digital Innovation in the Federal Reserve System
Michelle Neal, Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Executive Vice President, and Head of Markets, addresses digital innovation at the Singapore FinTech Festival. READ MORE
Public Service Strategies for Uncertain Times: Leadership and Innovation from Any Level
Innovation Leadership: Public Service Strategies for Uncertain Times (What are your thoughts)?
The Innovation Newsletter features a new article entitled “Public Service Strategies for Uncertain Times: Leadership and Innovation from Any Level” written by Dr. Geoff Abbott, U.S. Coast Guard Captain (Retired), former Coast Guard Innovation Council chairman, and best-selling author; and Judy Douglas, Founder, Douglas Leadership Advisory; Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration; IAC Executive Committee
Senior government leaders have always confronted the challenge of guiding their organizations with each change in administration. When there’s uncertainty in priorities, how can Federal agencies continue to best serve the American public? How can leaders help transform employees’ mindsets from “what was” to align with the new reality? What is the role of and opportunities for innovation in managing transitions? These issues are explored in the new think piece. What do you think?
Publication Date:ACT-IAC Innovation Projects
Institute for Innovation
The ACT-IAC Institute for Innovation provides a place for government and industry innovators to come together to address high-priority challenges and develop game-changing ideas.
ACT-IAC's National Use Case & Solutions Library (NUCSL)
The NUCSL is a public-private knowledge sharing initiative created to provide an easy, searchable database that captures successful implementations of emerging technologies which support the advancement of government
Innovation Focus
INNOVATION LEADERSHIP: Public Service Strategies for Uncertain Times
Public Service Strategies for Uncertain Times: Leadership and Innovation from Any Level (What are your thoughts)?
Written by Dr. Geoff Abbott, DBA, Captain, U.S. Coast Guard (Retired); Fellow nominee, National Academy of Public Administration, and Judy Douglas, Founder, Douglas Leadership Advisory; Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration; IAC Executive Committee.
Innovation in the News
2025 Innovation Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 ACT-IAC Innovation Awards. Two categories of awards are presented this year, the Innovation Champion Awards and the Innovation Impact Awards. The Champion Award, ACT-IAC’s highest innovation award, recognizes a revolutionary and game-changing innovation. The Impact Award recognizes an innovation that has made a substantial impact on government missions or operations through the use of technology.
Innovation and Economic Policy
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) report examines core focus areas in economic policy for the next administration.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST)
Department of Energy’s initiative for integrating AI into national security and energy innovation.
U.S. Air Force Research Lab IT Strategy
The Business of Government Hour host Michael J. Keegan talks with Alexis Bonnell, CIO and Director Digital Capabilities Directorate at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Milestone
At the one-year mark, DIU looks back on progress made between the Defense Department (DoD) and the commercial technology sector, and the challenges ahead.
Recruitment Strategies
“The evolution of the Army requires a transformation of the way they recruit the modern soldier and leveraging innovation to recreate the soldier experience.”
Defense Innovation Board
The Defense Innovation Board advises Pentagon acquisition needs another reorganization.