First floated as an idea in 2010, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program was officially launched in 2012 as a government-wide program to secure cloud products and services. A recent audit by the General Accountability Office showed that more than 900 government cloud projects have been authorized by FedRAMP, but hundreds more continue to operate without authorizations, which presents a kaleidoscope of security challenges to the...

Data is a natural byproduct of the business of government. However, federal agencies have been challenged as they try to gather, cleanse, standardize, mine and share that data. Now, however, new legislation (the Evidence Based Policymaking Act of 2019) and policy (OMB memo M-19-23) lay out the path agencies must follow to identify the data they plan to collect, use or acquire, as well as the methods and analytical approaches to facilitate the...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been changed to a live virtual format due to COVID-19 concerns. Federal agencies have less than three years to shift fully to electronic records management, and successfully making that transition entails far more than simply digitizing existing records. It will require a solid plan of action that incorporates the reinvention of current business processes, dramatically different app...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to a live virtual event due to COVID-19 concerns. Register today to watch this Virtual FCW AI Workshop. Watch from the convenience of your computer as government experts highlight some of the successful projects underway currently in agencies, and share lessons learned so far in the federal government's AI journey. Plus, you'll be able to offer input and submit your quest...

Today's public sector agencies are faced with many data-related challenges, from threats to operational efficiency and transparency. What if there was a solution to provide data analytics across silos to support security, IT and enterprise performance? Now more than ever, metrics are seen as a key tool in improving systems performance and operational efficiencies, providing agencies with information they can use to make smarter decisions about...

While nearly all government IT departments are being asked to deliver increased services with less funding --- the costs and latency constraints of traditional disk-based storage systems used in the past result in high costs and erratic performance, particularly for databases, virtualized servers, and virtual desktop applications. Solid-state, flash-based storage promises relief from the ongoing purchase cycle of massive, expensive, low-perfor...