DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

The long awaited executive guidance on artificial intelligence has been released by the current administration and Federal agencies have wasted little time getting to work. With the frameworks outlined in the executive order, agencies have started implementing the guidance into their operational networks, recognizing the imperative of swiftly integrating AI-focused strategies to enhance the resilience and effectiveness of their cybersecurity m...

DESCRIPTION: Government and industry leaders are embracing an accelerated pace of Change. Digital Transformation is an approach they use to identify potential disruptions, create or modify status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience, to meet the evolving challenges and promote used in government and industry to create or modify the status quo business processes, work culture, and customer experience to meet he evolving...

Join USGIF for this two-hour networking event and hear from a GEOINT community guest speaker. GEOINTeraction Tuesday is an evening event where you can develop new relationships, exchange ideas, and learn about new community initiatives. Each event features a guest speaker from the Defense, Intelligence, or Homeland Security Community who shares views on current issues relating to the GEOINT industry. January’s guest speaker will be the H...

Cybersecurity has always contended with evolving threats. As the internet has become more embedded into social and economic life and smart phones, tablets and other handheld devices become ubiquitous, bad actors have devised new attacks to capitalize on new vulnerabilities. And just as agencies are implementing zero trust architecture to help with this wave, other IT developments are threatening to upend cybersecurity even more. For instance,...

CyberSatGov is the only satellite security event that successfully fuses satellite, space, cyber, and government to educate on threat vectors and deliver solutions to thwart next-generation attacks. CyberSatGov welcomes cybersecurity experts, satellite service providers, C-Suite executives, innovators and engineers, federal intelligence agencies, and the Department of Defense for three interactive days of discussions, workshops, and disruptive...

The spread of 5G – fifth-generation mobile communications – across all levels of government is being accelerated by its usefulness in high-speed data transmissions and flexibility in customizing network applications. And the range of applications by government agencies made possible by 5G may only be limited by one’s imagination. Some of the innovations supported by this wireless standard were born out of necessity – at...

Just by the numbers, the Air Force is a huge market for IT and related technology products and services with systems integrators and major IT vendors pulling in hundreds of millions of contract awards each year. The Air Force is leading the way with artificial intelligence, cross domain systems, and autonomy initiatives as well as traditional IT needs around networks, communications, program management, and cybersecurity. But the numbers only...

We are looking forward to welcoming our channel partners, suppliers, industry experts and other members of our public sector IT channel community at our upcoming Government IT Sales Summit! In past years, this one-day event has brought together nearly 1,000 solutions providers, systems integrators and IT manufacturers from more than 300 companies who are looking for opportunities to build relationships, gain insights into the marketplace, and...

SolarWinds is taking a Roadtrip! We’re excited to invite you to the SolarWinds® Observability Roadshow. We will be hosting an exclusive End User Briefing and Breakfast in Reston Virginia on June 7th and we hope you can join us.Hear an exclusive briefing from SolarWinds Director of Sales Engineering, Omar Rafik and executive speakers including Global Vice President of Product Management, Brandon Shopp about how SolarWinds® Observ...