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...

Tune in for a discussion with our CEO Meagan Metzger and Assistant Secretary of the Navy James “Hondo” Geurts about the Department of Defense’s role in responding to the pandemic, lessons learned from widespread telework, and more. To be the first to know about Dcode events, sign up for our newsletter at dcode.co/subscribe

With the COVID crisis keeping people out of the office and working from home, this webinar focuses on the challenges unique to the intelligence and national security workforce as it pivots to increase and expand the use of telework. The discussion will focus on teleworking at the DOD and the IC during the COVID crisis, including the technology challenges and resources, opportunities to perform classified work in non-traditional environments,...

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...

According to the 2020 Gartner CFO Survey, almost 75% of businesses intend to shift some employees to permanent remote work following their experience responding to current global trends. As organizations embrace this new reality of work, they are left struggling with the need to suddenly enable a diverse workforce consisting of employees, third-party contractors, vendors, and channel partners in an effort to maintain productivity—all whi...