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...

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,...

Government and industry face significant challenges in hiring the right skilled workforce, encountering a very competitive landscape, where all are vying for similar talent along with pressures to control cost. With this new landscape, government and industry are investing human capital well versed in digitization, robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and new emerging technologies of the future. Everyone is still en...

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...