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The AI Protection Myth

<p>Enterprise leaders should apply employee onboarding logic to AI systems: grant only the access the job requires. Enthusiasm for AI&#39;s potential tempts leaders otherwise, but AI has no judgment about what it exposes, only a goal to pursue. And that is exactly why the operating assumption has to be to assume breach: if an AI model has access to critical information, there is no guarantee it won&#39;t expose it to someone or something it shouldn&#39;t.</p> <p>AI safety, as practiced today, is a myth: a set of software constraints that can be talked around, retrained away, or simply bypassed. The only real option, and where IT capability maturity can be won or lost, is AI containment. And containment that isn&#39;t physically enforced isn&#39;t containment at all; it&#39;s a policy waiting for the right prompt to route around it.</p>

• Presented by OWL Cyber Defense

GovExec TV: Five Questions with Gabby Burke

• Presented by Google Public Sector

GA-ASI showcases new Wildfire UAS at AFA

GA-ASI will demonstrate how its new offering addresses mass and scalability requirements at AFA 2026.

• Presented by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.

Anduril trusts Chainguard to innovate at mission speed and scale

<p>See how Anduril uses Chainguard to reduce CVE remediation, meet stringent defense security requirements, and give engineers more time to build and deploy mission-critical software at speed and scale.</p>

• Presented by Carahsoft

The Easy Button for Federal Software Compliance

<p>See how Chainguard takes the heavy lifting out of federal software security with hardened, signed, SBOM-backed software built to support Zero Trust, cATO, NIST SSDF, and secure software supply chain requirements.</p>

• Presented by Carahsoft

How to How to build an AI-powered SOC

<p>AI can transform security operations, but only when it has complete, clean, governed telemetry to work with. This solution brief presents a practical framework for modernizing the data foundation beneath your security stack, helping teams improve detection, accelerate investigations, extend retention, control costs, and prepare for trustworthy AI-driven operations without replacing everything at once.</p> <p>In this guide, you&rsquo;ll learn how to:<br /> -Build a vendor-neutral telemetry control plane for governed data movement.<br /> -Use intelligent tiering to extend retention while controlling costs.<br /> -Reduce vendor lock-in with a composable, governed architecture.<br /> -Unify investigations with federated search across your data sources.<br /> -Build the foundation for agentic triage and AI-ready SOC operations.</p> <p>Download the PDF to discover the five-layer High-Performance SOC Framework and learn where to start your modernization journey.</p>

• Presented by Carahsoft

Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 On-Demand

<p>Listen to public sector leaders share how organizations are modernizing their operations by moving from fragmented, siloed systems to connected data platforms.</p> <p>Through candid conversations and real-world results, explore how the public sector is embracing the speed and innovation of commercial technology to enable real collaboration and deliver on the promise of data-driven mission outcomes.</p> <p>You'll have an opportunity to hear from Anduril, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Amtrak, the California Department of Public Health and Health Care Services, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.</p> <p><strong>Session speakers:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Prathibha Prabakaran, Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Amtrak</li> <li>Venu Boppana, Strategy and Innovation Leader, U.S. Food and Drug Administration</li> <li>Callum McCann, Head of Data, ArsenalOS, Anduril</li> <li>Erin Mills, Data Operations Branch Chief, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office</li> <li>Ryan Mosley, Enterprise Modernization Division Chief, California Department of Health Care Services</li> <li>Robert Snyder, Informatics Branch Chief, California Department of Public Health</li> <li>Rory Patterson, Chairman of the Board &amp; GM, Databricks Federal</li> <li>Molly Just-Behr, Global Head of Public Sector GTM, Databricks</li> </ul>

• Presented by Databricks

How the Intelligence Authorization Act Shapes Intelligence Modernization

<p>The Intelligence Authorization Act is more than an annual funding measure&mdash;it signals where Congress expects intelligence capabilities and technology investments to go next. Explore how evolving priorities around AI, cloud computing, data fusion and oversight are reshaping Intelligence Community operations, and how modern platforms can turn complex data into trusted, actionable intelligence while maintaining auditability and accountability.</p>

• Presented by SS8

A new day dawns for the MALD® decoy

Dangers of contested airspace are driving demand

• Presented by RTX

Databricks Executive Brief: How Public Sector Leaders Are Putting AI to Work

<p><strong>Based on Hundreds of Databricks Deployments</strong></p> <p>This Executive Brief details how public sector leaders are moving past experimental pilots to deploy scalable AI on a single, unified, and governed data platform.</p> <p>Explore real-world use cases, strategic recommendations, and proven field results showing how agencies are drastically reducing costs and accelerating time-to-insight.</p> <p><strong>Download the executive brief to learn how to:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Coordinate specialized agents across programs, case files, documents and legacy operational systems</li> <li>Give teams natural-language access to trusted, auditable insights</li> <li>Detect fraud, service disruptions and public safety risks earlier</li> <li>Securely share data across agencies while protecting sensitive information</li> </ul>

• Presented by Databricks

From Dashboards to Decisions in Minutes - How Databricks Genie helps Public Sector in the agentic era

<p>Public sector agencies are using conversational AI to get instant, auditable answers from their data without compromising governance or security.</p> <p>Download the solution brief to learn how to:</p> <ul> <li>Give teams natural-language access to trusted insights complete with clear narrative explanations, tables, and visualizations.</li> <li>Standardize mission logic across agency domains using shared metric definitions in Unity Catalog.</li> <li>Accelerate operational decisions across program eligibility, budget planning, and predictive maintenance while maintaining full row- and column-level security.</li> </ul> <p>See how public sector organizations are reducing reporting cycles from weeks to minutes and speeding up regulatory reviews from days to an hour.</p> <p><strong>Download Now</strong></p>

• Presented by Databricks

Redefining data security for the post-quantum era

• Presented by Qanapi

Stop Identity-Driven Fraud Before It Spreads: A Lifecycle Playbook for Government Programs

This guide helps public sector fraud, identity and service leaders understand how risk-based authentication can reduce exposure to identity-driven fraud while minimizing friction for trusted constituents.

• Presented by TransUnion