To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 11/5/2020 The last five years have seen rapid changes in the tools and technologies available to government agencies. These new solutions offer capabilities that expand and enhance the government’s ability to provide services to citizens in a more efficient and manageable way. The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy of Cloud Sm...

Creating a Risk-Resilient, Agile Enterprise Young AFCEA Bethesda’s 13th Annual Senior Government Executive Forum brings together senior and emerging government IT leaders with industry to examine innovative technologies, techniques, and acquisition practices used to create a secure, modern, and responsive enterprise. The Senior Executive Roundtables In each breakout room, a Senior Government Executive and Emerging Government Leader will...

Emerging Technologies, whether mobile/5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, blockchain, Quantum Robotics, and many others are evolving at a faster pace than ever with government and industry. The technologies can be new or existing where the latter new capabilities are being developed and where both will change status quo and provide unrealized social and economic benefits. These technologies provide enhanced connectivity regardless of...

Public sector innovation is needed now more than ever before. Using new approaches – from policy design to service delivery, new technologies and better use of data – to improve the performance and responsiveness of the public sector is critical if we are to bounce back from the recent challenges we have all faced. To recover faster and better, we need to collaborate, share ideas and accelerate innovation in the public sector, ulti...

Public sector innovation is needed now more than ever before. Using new approaches – from policy design to service delivery, new technologies and better use of data – to improve the performance and responsiveness of the public sector is critical if we are to bounce back from the recent challenges we have all faced. To recover faster and better, we need to collaborate, share ideas and accelerate innovation in the public sector, ulti...

Public sector innovation is needed now more than ever before. Using new approaches – from policy design to service delivery, new technologies and better use of data – to improve the performance and responsiveness of the public sector is critical if we are to bounce back from the recent challenges we have all faced. To recover faster and better, we need to collaborate, share ideas and accelerate innovation in the public sector, ulti...

IT Transformation Chapter: Balancing Near Term Reality with Long Term Objectives As the COVID-19 outbreak began to spread, agencies found innovative ways to quickly transition to emergency response and remote work across many areas, including technology, workforce, cybersecurity, governance, and funding. Funds provided through pandemic relief legislation supported modernization efforts in agencies for the short term. Going forward, agencies wi...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled and is now online due to COVID-19 concerns. New Date: 10/15/2020; Virtual TIC…Tock. The clock struck midnight for the outdated Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) initiative. The new TIC 3.0 policy will eliminate barriers to the cloud, enable emerging technologies like SD-WAN, release the stranglehold on network access points, all while ensuring even greater F...

Secure. Enable. Modernize. Building on Technology Advances to Keep Moving Forward. Throughout 2019-2020, AFCEA Bethesda's breakfast series has brought together thought leaders from across government to educate the federal IT community on best practices and adoption of technology required to achieve mission objectives. The 2020 Tech Summit will take a deeper look at the issues explored in those series, including cybersecurity; leveraging data v...

Federal agencies are facing ever more sophisticated adversaries and threats that place our privacy, our economy, and our Nation at risk.These cyber threats are diverse and include the prevalence of malicious actors who operate globally at will; the growth of risks from the Internet of Things, and increasingly complex networks, all elevating the security and resilience of cyberspace to a critical homeland security imperative. Exacerbating these...