{"podcast":{"title":"The Government Technology Insider Podcast","slug":"the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483","podcast_index_feed_id":6475483,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/governmenttechnologyinsider/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/governmenttechnologyinsider","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/governmenttechnologyinsider/20250313_070358_aa7b77f88b351e4327cae4229ded1ba4.png","author":"Government Technology Insider","episode_count":174,"summary":"Welcome to the Government Technology Insider Podcast. Join us as we explore the intersection where innovation meets the mission. Our guests will explain the strategies, challenges, and successes government agencies experience as they adopt cutting-edge technologies. In each episode, we'll bring you engaging interviews with industry leaders, and technology experts who are at the forefront of helping government IT leaders solve the challenges they face today. We’ll talk about a wide range of topics including digital government initiatives, cybersecurity threats, the impact of cloud computing, and how AI is changing how agencies will work.! You will gain valuable knowledge on how to put technology to work to drive the mission forward. This is your comprehensive one stop shop to grow your understanding of the ever-evolving government technology landscape. To learn more, checkout our website: https://governmenttechnologyinsider.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T06:18:13.203277+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483"},"episode":{"title":"​​AI-Driven Acquisition: Keeping Humans at the Center​","slug":"ai-driven-acquisition-keeping-humans-at-the-center","published_at":"2026-06-29T15:19:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483/ai-driven-acquisition-keeping-humans-at-the-center","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/governmenttechnologyinsider/2951541","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/212646/2951541/governmenttechnologyinsider/2026_06_29_15_18_56_b7854e94-75b6-4a95-be72-f4d3fa0cd79c.mp3","summary":"With accelerating technology refresh cycles, evolving policy expectations, and the pressure to reduce waste and fraud while delivering mission outcomes faster, are transforming government acquisition from a transactional procurement function to a strategic capability. AI-driven acquisition offers agencies a way to address these pressures. Agencies are beginning to integrate AI directly into acquisition systems to streamline the requirements development process, automate research, and reduce administrative burden. These tools can help accelerate timelines and improve efficiency. However, agencies must also support common-sense workforce adoption to keep humans in the loop and avoid the risks of “cognitive surrender,” where users put too much trust into AI-generated outputs. Ben Allen, Vice President of Public Sector Solutions at Appian, joins our host, Lucas Hunsicker, in this episode of the Government Technology Insider podcast to talk about how acquisition modernization is evolving. They explore how the future of AI-enabled acquisition relies on embedding intelligent capabilities into procurement workflows in a way that keeps humans actively involved rather than replacing them.","meta_description":"With accelerating technology refresh cycles, evolving policy expectations, and the pressure to reduce waste and fraud while delivering mission outcomes fa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":840,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483/episodes/ai-driven-acquisition-keeping-humans-at-the-center/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-government-technology-insider-podcast-6475483/ai-driven-acquisition-keeping-humans-at-the-center.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}