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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law in November 2021, will unleash a flood of funding for a vast array of construction projects, including electric grid and energy improvements, roads and bridges, public transit, and water systems to name just a few. It is worth celebrating that so much will be repaired, replaced, or new-built. It also highlights a new opportunity to bring digitization to the construction industry, brin...

The pandemic of the last two years has changed the federal workplace. As employees begin a cautious return to their offices, the federal government’ Safer Federal Workforce Task Force is exploring how to balance reopening with the employees’ desire to keep some of the flexibility they discovered while working remotely. Key priorities such as hoteling, workplace/building services, visitor management, and the potential for understand...

Digital workers amplify human potential, and digital and human workers working in collaboration amplify your organization’s potential. While there is some discomfort with digital workers, digital workers are improving human worker’s wellbeing by taking over tasks allowing for re-skilling employees. A recent study indicates that work-life balance is a key driver for SOC analyst burnout. Implementing digital workers may help alleviat...

Behind every successful government is a clerk that is keeping it all together through technology and cross-department collaboration. Keeping government running is difficult – especially remotely and/or with social distancing guidelines. Hear from clerks across the country as they open up about the challenges they were facing and the secure, cloud-based solutions they were able to implement to ease their workload and help empower a transp...

With aging IT infrastructure, outdated job classification system and a greying government workforce, agency executive and human capital officers face a trifecta of challenges in the years ahead. Soaring demand for cybersecurity experts and data scientists are just two examples of the newer professional specialists that the government is struggling to hire. With the rise of vaccinated workers, questions have arisen about the reopening of federa...

Digital experience is now a fundamental element of how governments connect with their constituents and engage their workforces. With the ongoing shift toward contactless service delivery and remote work, it is critical for public agencies to be able to deliver high-quality, user-centric digital interactions that meet residents, business owners and employees where they are — online. Government Technology will host a 30-minute interactive...

As we look at building a post-pandemic future, organizations of all kinds are considering how they will approach the new normal. These organizations – from federal, state and local agencies to large corporations and small businesses – are strategically planning to change their environments and workflows to learn from pandemic operational practices. Technology innovations and advancements have allowed many organizations to successfu...

Gartner outlined Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as a new framework that converges networking and network security into a unified platform built and managed on cloud-native architectures. That was in 2019. A lot has changed since then. The disruptions of the past 18 months completely redefined the security environment. The remote workforce calls for new agility and flexibility in securing the network, and the idea of permanent hybrid work cr...

Keeping government running is difficult – especially remotely and/or with social distancing guidelines. Hear from clerks across the country as they open up about the challenges they were facing and the secure, cloud-based solutions they were able to implement to ease their workload and help empower a transparent and agile digital government. Join us on Tuesday, September 28, from 2 – 2:20 p.m. ET / 11 – 11:20 a.m. PT for Sept...