The federal government’s roles and missions extend far and wide, including protecting and defending the United States, transforming service delivery, exploring space, gathering weather and climate data, and overseeing massive health and social welfare programs. GovExec has been front-and-center for over fifty years as the government has evolved, misstepped, and achieved. We are excited to honor the people in government and the people par...

It’s a pivotal year. Federal agencies face immediate deadlines for key Zero Trust goals, while transforming digital service delivery and modernizing legacy systems. State and local governments made cybersecurity and digital services their top strategies for 2024. The DoD’s identity program is accelerating cloud adoption, while government contractors are readying for new compliance rules. And across the nation, colleges and universi...

Wildfires are becoming more frequent every year, and the threat they pose to natural landscapes and wildlife cannot be understated. However, state and local governments often don’t have the budget to properly combat climate disasters. With the increasing prevalence of wildfires and hazardous fuel leaks across the globe, state and local governments urgently need access to timely, cost-effective, and efficient mitigation programs. What can...

The exciting rise of artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing presents a pressing need for public sector workforce transformation. Federal system integrators (FSIs) must ensure their staff are properly equipped with the right knowledge, skills and resources to support government officials on their path to efficiently harnessing cutting-edge technologies that drive innovation. Enter upskilling and reskilling. Upskilling expands and...

As the agency responsible for providing benefits and services to veterans and their families, the Veterans Affairs Department controls one of the largest IT budget in the federal government, spending over $10 billion annually. IT is critical to VA internal operations as well as how it delivers health care services to its constituents. This translates into a broad range of opportunities from building and maintaining IT infrastructure and networ...

GIST24 explores the missions, strategies, and operational goals that government agencies face in delivering successful mission outcomes and meeting the needs and expectations of citizens and other stakeholders, and the major role that AI is playing. Gartner foresees a transformative shift in 2024, projecting that 60% of government investments in AI and data analytics will directly shape operational decisions and outcomes. GIST24 unravels pract...

In the wake of a once-in-a-generation pandemic, the nation’s public health system has never been so important and under such considerable spotlight. Holes in the existing public health infrastructure — at the federal, state and local levels — require both innovative technologies and dedicated leadership to address. For hospitals and health care providers to provide better patient care, they need IT innovations that promote an...

Across the federal government, many business processes that agencies currently rely on are costly and manual. In an environment that’s becoming increasingly more digitized, organizations are looking to modernize systems through zero trust architecture, AI, and cloud services. Within the public sector, digital transformation that is compliant with government regulations is a top priority. For greater success, today’s federal agencie...

What are the threats, weapons, and technologies shaping the U.S. military’s strategic priorities and tactical considerations in 2024? Defense One explores these questions and more with top leaders from the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Space Force in its fifth annual State of Defense series.

Threat actors are targeting mobile devices more aggressively to compromise employee accounts and quietly gain access to your cloud infrastructure – making it critical to understand emerging mobile threats and how tactics are rapidly changing. Lookout invites you to an exclusive briefing on our recent discovery of CryptoChameleon - an active phishing kit that enables attackers to build carbon copies of single sign-on (SSO) pages, then use...