The Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) GITEC Emerging Technology Awards will recognize government and industry leaders who have made significant contributions to the advancement and implementation of technology innovations. The awards will honor the person or project team deserving of recognition for driving towards government transformation while delivering results. Awards include: Advancing Artificial Intelligence and Data...

Data has always been one of the government’s most valuable assets. But in today’s environment with newly arrived mandates and policy, a predominantly remote workforce and data-driven emerging technologies on the horizon, agencies are poised to transform the way they think about, manage, secure and operationalize their data to improve citizen services and mission outcomes.Join top leaders and decision-makers from the public-sector I...

Governments at all levels are being tasked to think outside the box to meet today's ever-growing list of challenges, especially in the midst of shrinking budgets and the ongoing pandemic. The only way to be successful is to modernize and innovate. But, many agencies are saddled with slow legacy systems, untrained personnel, and outdated processes. Governments need to find creative solutions to these problems, which often means looking at new t...

Today’s government organizations face ever-increasing and evolving mission demands, requiring greater speed and agility to modernize IT. Some agencies have discovered a path to success by establishing software factories and cloud PMOs to accelerate development and delivery of better mission apps. To learn more about this new approach, we invite you to RSVP and join us Wednesday, Aug. 26 starting at 6:30 p.m. EDT for a virtual Azure Gove...

ATARC's Federal Reskilling Virtual Summit on August 25, 2020, will focus on the re-training of the Federal IT workforce on the newest technology innovations. Hear how the needed skill sets have changed and how team leaders are helping to educate their employees on how to use new technology developments effectively. This event will focus on identifying current major qualification needs in the emerging technology areas of cloud computing, artifi...

The importance of cybersecurity is at an all-time high, especially for government agencies. It’s a matter of national security. With the number of federal employees remotely connecting to agency networks, cloud-based remote access environments and collaboration tools via telework, agencies can be exposed to increasing risk. While guidance has been issued to help agencies better protect their network environments, CenturyLink has years of...

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 federal government’s focus on data management will reach a high point this year, as the Trump administration and agencies activate around the Federal Data Strategy’s 2020 Action Plan. On top of this, the 2019 signing of the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act into law put a spotlight on federal agencies’ data practices. In addition to requiring all government data to be open and machine-readable when possible, it requires tha...

Sonatype's 3rd-annual online user conference will be our best yet. As always, it’s free and online, but we’ve improved this year’s conference with workshops, 1:1 executive meetings, and new DevSecOps resources. The Nexus User Conference is a forum for you to interact with other users across our community as well as the teams building our products. Chat with every speaker live, share code and best practices, and join hands-on...

As governments across the United States start looking beyond the COVID pandemic, many are struggling to reboot citizen services while working with a reduced budget and workforce capacity. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has proven to be a key technology to drive up operational efficiency and help to clear up backlogs across government agencies at every level, early adopters such as USDA, GSA, US Air Force, DMV, DHUD, VA, Homeland Security, FD...