The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the new normal is still being defined. Government CIOs have been operating on the front line, triaging technical issues remotely, maintaining on premise servers from afar, and dealing with spikes in help desk services. Technology is just the tool; people are the driver to building enterprise-wide agility. The pandemic response ha...

The Federal government’s procurement process has long been burdened with inefficiencies. The complexity of the process has resulted in major acquisition shortfalls because program management is undervalued, with procurement actions plagued by poor performance, cost overruns and schedule delays. Procurement reform known as frictionless acquisition is now one of government’s cross-agency goals. Agencies, modeling commercial purchasin...

The NextGen Summit is the embodiment of what NextGen represents: inspiring government innovation and providing training and leadership opportunities for public servants. Since 2010, the two-day summit has inspired over 5,000 federal, state and local govies to be positive change ambassadors. This year, the NextGen Summit will be hosted virtually on August 19-20, 2020. Why does it matter to me? The NextGen Summit is a place to cultivate and enab...

The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the “new normal” is still being defined. According to OPM’s most recent telework report to Congress, only 22% of government employees had adopted telework as part of their regular work week prior to the pandemic. Telework and flexible work schedules are in the toolbox to ensure the health and safety of governmen...

As agencies prepared for 2020, no one anticipated the severe changes that were about to occur, abruptly shifting priorities toward a state of emergency. As a result, public sector management has faced overwhelming disruption. Overnight, stay-at-home orders changed where and how their staffs worked. Confronted with this harsh new reality, and the momentous global change that is occurring, the federal workforce continues to be faced with uncerta...

Three months after the impact of the pandemic spurred virtually universal work from home, agencies are reviewing state by state plans for partial or full return to work. To encourage collaboration and effective delivery of agency missions, technological tools such as cloud solutions, virtual private networks, and teleconferencing were implemented, with close monitoring the impact of these changes on their cybersecurity profile. This webinar wi...

The government contracting environment has been rocked by two watershed events – the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation’s reaction to the murder of George Floyd. In this WT Power Breakfast, we’ll look at the early lessons learned from COVID-19 and the challenges that companies, customers and employees have faced. Leading executives will share how they have adapted to managing and supporting remote workers as well as how they ha...

Government agencies across the country faced an unprecedented shift to mass telework when the coronavirus pandemic arrived stateside. For most, remote working went from a convenient option to a mandate. And with it, things like device management, collaboration tools and connectivity via virtual private networks and the cloud became more important than ever. This SNG Live virtual session will retrace the steps agencies took during the shift to...

Today, agencies are striving to improve their application security programs, while at the same time, not slowing down the development, delivery, and deployment of their software applications. Can a balance be achieved between security and an organization’s (or agency’s) daily business requirements? We know it’s possible. Application Security (AppSec) Awareness Programs that are specifically focused on the development communit...

For weeks, most of the federal civilian workforce and a large percentage of Department of Defense employees have been teleworking. Information Technology offices across government have been logging long – often intense – hours in order to enable mission-critical work, some of it directly tied to COVID-19 response efforts. Agencies have purchased hundreds-of-thousands of new laptops, managed an exponential rise in help-desk requests...