Digital Government Institute is privileged to work with some of the best and brightest government leaders regarding all aspects of conference development, to include our advisory boards and conference programming. We are especially excited about the upcoming 12th annual Cyber Security Conference, scheduled for November 14 – an event to highlight women in Cybersecurity. These Cyber Leaders will share their capabilities, experiences, lesso...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are — especially cloud-based or SAAS environments — technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don’t w...

Data security threats continue to increase in number and sophistication. The growing use of collaborative technologies – from mobile devices and social media to virtualization and cloud computing – will continue to be one of the most significant factors impacting the security landscape. For these reasons, the federal government has increased efforts to minimize and prevent cyber security attacks, and will continue to place signific...

Enterprise Architecture has become one of the pillars of the federal IT world to help make operations run smoothly, seamlessly and maneuver easily. No matter what technology is touted, or how service oriented and agile the applications are -- especially cloud-based or SAAS environments -- technology systems must be designed and implemented to support the business or mission and enable processes. If integrated IT systems don't work or fail, the...

A good portion of the annual Federal IT spend is allocated to keep legacy systems functioning, draining precious funds away from modernizing systems and capabilities. Costs to maintain these end-of-life systems continue to grow as they age, leaving systems increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. In 2017, the trend will be to retire expensive legacy IT systems and modernize information technology systems so agencies can (1) more easily achiev...

In October 2015, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the first-ever government-wide operating model for shared services, including the establishment of the Shared Services Governance Board (SSGB) and creation of the Office of Unified Shared Services Management (USSM). See official White House announcement. On May 4th, OMB issued guidance to agencies on Improving Administrative Funct...