The FY14 budget continues to ensure progress towards three priority goals to improve services for citizens, increase the return on investment in Federal IT and advance efforts in cybersecurity. Moreover, the pervasiveness of new technologies such as cloud computing, open and big data, social collaboration and mobile have changed what agencies need to meet the mission. How will federal spending for IT investments in FY15 continue to drive innov...

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have become commonplace tools for government outreach. However, agencies are moving away from social media as an outbound communication tool and enlisting social media to help do many jobs better. Agencies leverage social media to reach underserved audiences during key initiatives who otherwise would not have paid attention to the referendum, get accurate information out more quickly...

Join ThunderCat and partners, Riverbed and Pershing Technologies on Thursday, January 30th for a complimentary breakfast seminar at Charlie Palmer Steakhouse in Washington, DC. During this seminar you will learn how Riverbed and Pershing Technologies can help provide your agency the necessary resources to meet the dynamic demand for video services. Riverbed is focused on application performance from the server to the desktop with a wide-range...

Oversight and Enforcement: The Role of Analytics in Crime Every day, oceans of information become available to enforcement and audit organizations, providing invaluable insight to enforcement organizations across government. The job of turning data into intelligence is the role of business analytics. Deciphering criminal patterns, surveillance, and tracking data are also playing a role in prevention. These enable enforcement officials to pred...

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have become commonplace tools for government outreach. However, agencies are moving away from social media as an outbound communication tool and enlisting social media to help do many jobs better. Agencies leverage social media to reach underserved audiences during key initiatives who otherwise would not have paid attention to the referendum, get accurate information out more quickly...

Earlier this year, President Obama instituted Executive Order 13636 - Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) was tasked to provide the White House recommendations for prudent next steps to mitigate the risks this Executive Order addresses. In an effort to promote a more holistic approach to risk mitigation, GSA worked directly with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Department of...

As government moves to a more mobile workforce, demand for consistent and standards-driven application development and deployment has become even more critical – especially in an environment of shrinking budgets. It is important to develop cost-effective applications that are easily extensible for use on mobile devices, with the ability to be built once and tweaked for use across the enterprise. Agencies and the public both need to creat...

Agency Innovation: Making Mobile Government a Reality The Challenge: The digital strategy underscored new ways for government to interact with citizens, soldiers, and staff. This shift to mobile apps, cloud services, and other innovations comes with risk. To keep pace with the mobile innovation, the Administration charged agencies with developing flagship mobile services and making data available in user-friendly formats. FedInsider will bring...

This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service promises a time when citizens will soon be able to access everything from federal health benefits to student loan information using a single ID and password. The project will create a cloud-servic...

The 2013 Emergency Preparedness & Hazmat Response Conference is being held at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace from October 13th to the 17th. Sponsored by the City of Baltimore in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Infrastructure Protection and other Federal agencies and organizations, this national conference continues to bring the highest quality training and education to all involved in emergency management a...