As the federal government shores up its systems and workforce, agencies must avoid defending against yesterday's cyber threats. New technology can make phishing attempts harder to detect and have users questioning the authenticity of data, images and information. To explore tomorrow’s technology and threats, Defense One and Nextgov are teaming up for the first-ever Cyber Summit on November 19 in Washington, DC. Join us to hear federal an...

What’s coming over the horizon? At the 2019 edition of Defense One’s annual look into the future, we will discuss global threats, industry trends, advanced technology, national-security policy, and 2020 politics through interviews with top leaders and conversations about bold ideas.

Rapid change in government is upon us. Your agency must achieve its core mission while remaining compliant with new policy and regulation. Are you prepared to not only meet your mission but thrive in times of change? Join government and industry leaders at the second annual Government Empowered conference to learn from agencies who are leading the way. Uncover insights that will empower your organization to be adaptive in a world of rapid change.

The era of big data is here. And with it, agencies have the opportunity to make faster, better decisions to improve mission performance. But there’s a problem. The volume of data is overwhelming and traditional databases and methodologies aren’t up to the task to manage, analyze and share more disparate data sets quickly and securely while accelerating agencies’ mission. The good news, however, is that every agency and organi...

The challenges our first responders face in an emergency are daunting--and the landscape is rapidly changing. Decades of increased urban density, mobility, and technology are all fundamentally changing disaster response. Pair this with external factors like climate change, as well as political and cultural factors like increasing gun violence and threats of terrorism, and you have a profession that looks entirely different than it did just a d...

At today’s rate of growth, the size of the digital universe in 2025 will be 176 zettabytes of information. To put that in perspective, a single zettabyte is enough to hold 250 billion DVDs. All of it could have some relevance to national security. The Defense Department and Intelligence Community will be in charge of managing an exponentially growing amount of outside data, along with an exploding volume of internal data from soldiers in...

Four years after top officials within the intelligence community first gathered to formulate a new approach to handling technology within its 17 component agencies, the resulting plan’s foundation has been laid and agencies are off and running. The Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) is based on moving the IC agencies toward shared services.IC ITE initiative has focused and accelerated bureaucracy to achieve...

The government’s current IT trajectory is not sustainable, and DOD and other agencies must modernize their systems to make use of new data available to them, handle current and future security threats and maximize their returns on IT investments. The government spends about 80 percent of its $80-plus billion IT budget on legacy systems, leaving precious few resources available to modernize systems and test, develop and keep pace with ne...

With the emergence of the Islamic State, a resurgent Russia, and an increasingly assertive China, the U.S. military must be ready to carry out the response to any contingency. Cyber hacks, the unprecedented ways in which ISIS uses the Internet for radicalization, identifying violent extremists before they strike, and being prepared to mitigate and respond to global threats will require more than materiel readiness.Winning the unpredictable ne...

The government’s current IT trajectory is not sustainable, and DOD and other agencies must modernize their systems to make use of new data available to them, handle current and future security threats and maximize their returns on IT investments. The government spends about 80 percent of its $80-plus billion IT budget on legacy systems, leaving precious few resources available to modernize systems and test, develop and keep pace with new...