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 focus of the Summit is to convene both industry and government with the goal of increasing knowledge of and fostering collaboration on key original equipment manufacturers (OEM) contract strategies, Best-in-Class IT contracts, small business, and emerging technology to meet Agency missions. This in-person event is intended to allow collaboration, best practice sharing, and support with and between agency practitioners who influence and exe...

Leave your cloud pain points at the door and learn the value of building FinOps best practices. Incorporating these practices will provide your agency with mature processes that maximize the business value from cloud spend. We’ll provide FinOps lessons learned, from project planning to cost optimization. Wherever your agency is in its cloud journey, get insights to optimize cloud spend and meet your cloud goals. Objectives: Learn about F...

Learn how the USCG is transforming and modernizing its fleet and IT infrastructure to better perform its missions. The US Coast Guard (USCG) has been actively pursuing an ambitious technology revolution plan to replace legacy equipment and modernize its cybersecurity and data management capabilities. Sworn to protect the American borders, the Coast Guard focused on empowering their fleet with reliable, mobile, and secure systems. Learn how the...

Join ACT-IAC for a lively discussion about the journey to IT modernization in the federal government. Hear federal and industry experts and leaders share their strategy and experiences to sundown costly legacy systems and improve access to information. Our program will touch on: Does the government have unique challenges? Are there better paths to success than others? What obstacles does the road to modernization have? What timeframes should b...

Join Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat, OPM CIO Guy Cavallo, and Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security CIO G. Nagesh Rao on January 11 at 12pm ET for a panel discussion moderated by Melvin Brown II, OPM’s Deputy CIO. Our discussion will center on “Putting the MOD back into IT Modernization” as well as reflected learnings and the next evolution of the President’s Management Agenda and Executive Orders around: Elev...

The Intersection between the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity & Acquisition The Federal Insights Exchange is thrilled to host a dynamic panel discussion on successfully aligning the Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity with the Department of State’s contracts. While much of the EO aims to create consistent standards and regulations, the EO also includes requirements and reporting respon...

The federal government is facing the most complex and highly sophisticated cyber threats against their IT infrastructure and their mission. In addition, managing technology today is becoming even more complex with the increasing number of products in the IT infrastructure and the lack of full visibility into an organization’s IT estate. Federal IT departments are being encouraged to adopt enterprise software within record speed while man...