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Welcome to “HSDF THE PODCAST,” a collection of policy discussions on government technology and homeland security brought to you by the Homeland Security and Defense Forum

 Our panel  shares how that shift to AI changes our process, our culture, and our platform. By embedding prompt engineers at the mission edge, we compress requirements into live solutions, gather feedback in real time, and turn early power users into a broader base of confident practitioners. Think Excel’s early days, but with governance, security, and scale built in from the start.

 Featuring:

• Jay Alalasundaram, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Software and Applications and Services, CBP
• Baibhav “Bobo” Devkota, Executive Director, Border Enforcement and Management Systems Directorate, CBP 
• Thomas Mills, Executive Director, Cargo Systems Program Directorate, CBP 
• Neha Saijpaul, Director, Digital Solutions, CACI International Inc. (moderator)

 This discussion took place December 12, 2025 at 8th Annual Homeland Security & Defense Forum Border Security Symposium

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