Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, transforming internal business processes to make federal employees more effective and efficient, or improving the citizen experience on federal websites, digital government aims to enable better government. New tools and technologies are an essential part of these efforts, but the true transformation takes place in the analog world -- rethinking business processes, changing the workplace cultur...

The pandemic-induced massive shift to remote work has truly highlighted the need to enable employees to manage their own environment, particularly to access, monitor and interact with their work flows in an efficient and meaningful way. Think of those needs in the context of workplace apps, and one starts really seeing the advantages of no-code/low-code development platforms that offer unrivaled ease of use, accessibility for developers or eve...

The use of Artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to accelerate in the federal government. With this growing momentum, agencies are increasingly dedicating resources to the use of AI. But, how do they do this in a strategic way? What factors should be considered in the decision? How can agencies identify high value candidates and real pain points where AI would have the biggest impact? This panel will explore how agencies can identify spec...

The transition to Agile development is complex and challenging, especially for legacy programs. Where do you start and what obstacles may exist? Agile and DevSecOps are often touted as silver bullets to accelerating delivery of mission winning capability. These modern development and deployment methodologies offer many benefits, but navigating their implementation requires a data-driven understanding of which applications will benefit the most...

At the beginning of 2020, nearly every organization had a multi-year digital transformation program they were executing against. As the global pandemic set in, for most, that multi-year plan became a multi-month plan and multi-week in some cases. “In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.” ― Liz Curtis Higgs 2020 became the year of haste. Workforces and workload...

Years' worth of change has been accelerated in a matter of weeks. The world is preparing to deliver one of the largest mass vaccination campaigns in history. In the United States, governors will play a key role in bringing together leaders from their state public health, immunization, and emergency management systems to design and execute the operation. Technology will help enable governments and healthcare organizations to manage vaccine oper...

New ways of working have emerged, both for Federal Government agencies and the citizens they serve. This panel will examine the current challenges, recent successes and lessons learned by Federal IT Government Leaders within the Federal Cloud space. What type of solutions have been made available to help strengthen Federal Data? What strategies can be put in place in order to help embrace a data focused future? What will embracing a Data Drive...

In today’s climate, we must make smarter IT investments that are responsive to federal mission and citizen expectations. GSA IT’s mission, vision, goals have remained the same, but the pace and volume of work continue to expand. We continue to engage our employees and customers to understand how GSA IT excels and where we can improve our services. These efforts and COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the importance of digital techno...

It’s fair to say that enlightened organizations buckled up and embarked on the DevSecOps journey some time ago. It hasn’t been an easy road, complete with many unexpected speed limits, roadblocks and detours. It would seem timely to pull out the map, pinpoint where we are, and look ahead to get a better idea of what exactly the destination looks like. To help us evaluate progress made thus far, ATARC, in collaboration with the U.S...

The Financial Systems Summit (FSS) is now the Technology & Transformation Summit (TTS), renamed to better reflect the broader scope of topics included in the program! Every year, this event brings more than 1,300 government leaders and industry experts together to discuss ways to improve government services through technology modernization and business transformation in a budget-constrained environment. As new forms of advanced technology...