The Department of Veterans Affairs has a huge mandate – to provide healthcare, benefits, and services to support the nation’s nearly 20 million veterans. In these extremely trying times, VA has met the health crisis with a remarkable expansion of IT-driven patient care capabilities, thanks to modernization of key underlying service architectures. VA innovated to outpace service demand during the coronavirus pandemic and as a result...

With the primary missions of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, the Department of Health and Human Services bore the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. Its component agencies – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – live on the front lines of public...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled and is now online due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 10/15/2020; Virtual TIC…Tock. The clock struck midnight for the outdated Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative. The new TIC 3.0 policy will eliminate barriers to the cloud, enable emerging technologies like SD-WAN, release the stranglehold on network access points, all while ensuring even greater F...

Startups are no longer the only disrupter. While private sector organizations are being rapidly overwhelmed by industry challengers, such as Uber and Amazon, public sector agencies are under immense pressure to provide social assistance. Many of the IT systems for these services, such as unemployment insurance, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Temporary Association for Needy Families (TANF), Medicare, and Medicaid are...

We’ve been hearing the phrase a lot these days, but the only ‘new normal’ in the cybersecurity world is this – you can and will be hacked. Adversaries and cyber criminals are more active than ever with a recent 75% increase in daily cybercrimes since according to the FBI. Healthcare, financial services, and government, all critical sectors are targets. New government wide policies are also requiring agencies to be more...

States are struggling to slow the spread during the COVID-19 pandemic and are turning to technology to help. What exactly is contact tracing and how has it helped Maryland combat COVID-19? Join MeriTalk and AWS on Tuesday, August 11 at 1:30 p.m. ET for a webinar to examine how the state of Maryland leveraged cloud-based call center solutions to set up a contact tracing program. During the webinar we’ll discuss: Why cloud-based solutions...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been moved to online-only due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 6/9/2020 CDM Central live will offer the full conference program, including keynotes, industry and government panels, and government spotlight sessions, and will give attendees the opportunity to interact with sponsors, speakers, and other participants virtually. The virtual event will be complimentary and available to al...

2020 marks the start of a new era in government IT. Even compared to a few months ago, the governments’ operational needs and security priorities have undergone a paradigm shift. Federal, State, and Local government IT leaders are quickly scaling work from home support to unprecedented levels, despite many organizations lacking needed infrastructure and security controls for a perimeterless work environment. Join government and industry...

Now more than ever, it is critical that defense workers can quickly and easily collect and use data to maximize efficiencies, improve mission readiness, and protect the people they serve. A modern data and integration platform makes this possible while alleviating the perceived barriers associated with modernization. Join Snowflake and Qlik (formerly Attunity) on Thursday, April 23 from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m., for a free demonstration of how y...

Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day early with fellow cyber IT peers at MeriTalk’s next Cyber Smoke on Thursday, March 12 at Morton's The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. Cyber Smoke is a special networking tradition and must-attend event where you can take advantage of the opportunity to socialize with other cyber professionals from across government and industry.