Hon. Michael Cadenazzi, Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy, joins the podcast.

The Department of Transportation component is seeking industry input on how to improve information security and its infrastructure for core safety and communications systems.

And, Charles Worthington, a longtime top VA tech and AI official, departs agency.

And, CISA CIO Robert Costello exits the agency.

The move follows a story about criticisms of CISA’s performance during the first year of the Trump administration, with Madhu Gottumukkala’s leadership a point of contention.

The agency lost a third of its people in a year. Now industry and lawmakers on both sides say it's unprepared for a potential crisis.

Principal cyber advisors from each of the services discuss how cyber is evolving.

And, House Democrats question DHS, ICE use of surveillance tech.

And, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael urges Anthropic to ‘cross the Rubicon’ on military AI use cases amid ethics dispute.

And, State Department is gearing up to ‘roll out agentic AI’