Prepping for the Digital Frontier, “Smart Trends in IoT” hosted by ACT-IAC will provide attendees with a wide-range of discussions around the frameworks; implementation and methodologies; business and technology; connection between federal, state and local IoT; and cybersecurity, compliance and privacy enablers in the emerging IoT landscape to help prep agencies for the Digital Frontier. Keynote speakers will highlight topics which...

The ACT-IAC Federal Insights Exchange in collaboration with the IT Management and Modernization Community of Interest invite you to join in this conversation and gain insight into the future of cloud at DHS, key objectives, target outcomes and ideas on how industry can participate. The IT modernization forecast definitely includes clouds. Within the Department of Homeland Security, the incoming Chief Information Officer, Dr. John Zangardi anno...

ACT IAC is pleased to announce the first Network Modernization Forum to be held on Tuesday, June 19 at the Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C. With the 2017 award of GSA's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) and the explosion of new technologies, the time to transform the government's IT and telecommunications into a robust, powerful and secure network is here! Join us for a special all-day program featuring keynote speaker and Federal C...

In the past, many federal agencies paid little attention to customer experience as many felt they were often the only place a citizen could go to get important jobs done such as filing for social security or Medicare, paying taxes, getting a passport or sending a letter in the mail. As citizen expectations have been shaped by their commercial experiences with service providers, federal agencies are now expected to provide speedy and efficient...

While many Federal organizations are moving aggressively to lower monthly portfolio data center costs by leveraging public and private cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings to run legacy virtual machines, this approach does not take full advantage of the potential benefits of a cloud architecture. Cloud-native development reconstructs an application in a target cloud ecosystem, and calls upon cloud services inherent in the cloud e...

The Health Innovation Day hosted by ACT-IAC will provide attendees with wide-range discussions around technology, management/processes, and policy constraints and enablers and constraints with innovation. These discussions will involve the entire healthcare community of government, industry, academia, professional societies, product firms, and private sector hospital systems and payers in collaborative discussions of different perspectives. To...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to the Lifting the Curtain with Reverse Industry Day on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC. REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT IN FEDERAL ACQUISITION -- Before there is a contract and before there is a solicitation, there is a need or requirement that the end-user deems necessary to meet the agency’s mission. The ident...

The Federal government’s support for Small Business contracting has had a dramatic impact on the economic vitality of communities across the country. In some cases, small businesses have flourished, growing from a one-person company operating out of a garage to a billion-dollar organization known the world over. In others, small businesses have struggled to continue experiencing positive growth once they began to face full and open compe...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) invites you to Drones in the Federal Airspace and Internet of Things (IoT) Forum on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at the Renaissance Washington in Washington, DC.The theme, "Unleashing the Power of IoT and Drone Technology', will focus on how drones and IoT are currently being used in the federal arena and look to the endless possibilities that IoT and Drones can offer. The...

All too frequently, good ideas that could benefit the federal government never make it to their attention due to the costs of creating and marketing such innovations. Many small and mid-sized businesses are starved of resources and capital that can allow their company to succeed in the federal marketplace or do not have the access to secure additional funding to make their dream idea a reality. Does your company have ideas, innovations or serv...