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Dr. Paul Rodrigues, Chief AI Officer for Microsoft Federal’s National Security Group, speaking at AITalks, April 14, 2026, in Washington, DC.
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Why governing agentic AI is the next mission for federal agencies

Microsoft’s Paul Rodrigues explains why agencies must move beyond deploying AI to orchestrating and governing autonomous agents with built-in oversight, identity and accountability.
The Moon appears dark in the picture as white sunlight leaks out around its edges. A portion of the Orion spaceship, also in shadow, is visible on the left of the image.
The Moon was backlit by the Sun during the Artemis II mission on April 6, creating a solar eclipse. The photo was taken by a camera on the Orion spacecraft. Troy LeBlanc used it in his presentation as one of many examples of NASA images. (Photo via NASA)

From space photography to mission readiness, NASA turns to AI to alleviate data influx

Microsoft and Google are among the vendors NASA is working with for mission control and image cataloguing use cases, per Johnson Space Center’s top IT official.
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A traveler checks flight information at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport on July 19, 2024 in Washington, DC. A global computer outage started from an update from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike that impacted flights worldwide along with disrupting broadcasters and banking services. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

The self-inflicted wounds of tech monoculture

AWS and Crowdstrike outages show the need for more diversity in technology.
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