Today’s agency chief information officers face a multitude of challenges, but most of them know technology has the power to address many of those hurdles. At the General Services Administration, the biggest challenge is keeping pace with the fast-evolving technology and overall change in the world.

Lumina Analytics executives Morten Middelfart and Kris Smeage talks about their company’s approach to uncover threats with the help of artificial intelligence and data analytics. The company was a sponsor of the CXO Tech Forum: Next-Generation National Security.

It was simply through trial and error the U.S. Army Cyber Command discovered what worked in spurring innovation — and what didn’t. The long-held convention had been to push innovation down from headquarters to lower levels. However, when subordinate levels were allowed to develop innovation programs on their own, the effort was successful, says Lt. Col. Chris Cline, director of strategic plans in the U.S. Army.

One of Defense Department’s top senior IT officials laid out the Pentagon’s cybersecurity priorities and one theme going forward was risk management. In the next few weeks, DOD is going to publish its cyber strategy, followed by the cybersecurity strategy, both of which support the overall National Defense Strategy, and Michelli called on industry to look at those key documents to help DOD move forward in the digital realm. They “very much describe what we need to do, what we’re trying to do,” Michelli says.

Chaudhry’s organization is in the “post-entry space,” meaning a container has already cleared the port and products have already been sold and distributed before his division gets involved. So, they look at the internal controls and regulatory compliance programs of all the companies, and Chaudhry says some of those companies are using artificial intelligence, but face causation correlation problems where they’re building their biases into that AI.