The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will be held on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational, one-day symposium will examine the DevOps tools and techniques being used by the Federal Government to create an agile development cycle that provides greater efficiency and cost savings than traditional methods. The event will also feature the MITRE-ATARC DevOps Collaboration Symposium, where...

This educational, one-day symposium will discuss the security challenges faced by Federal Chief Information Security Officers and examine the lessons learned and best practices used to secure the information technology resources of government agencies. The morning session features speakers and panels with government thought leaders, while the afternoon includes the MITRE-ATARC Cyber Collaboration Symposium, where government, academic and indus...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) team and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) will host a DCOI Technology Resources Summit on November 20, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at GSA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.Margie Graves, Acting U.S. Chief Information Officer, will open the event with a Visionary Keynote, and there will be three panel discussions that focus on data cen...

The ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit will be held on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating discussing the latest tools and trends in mobility. (Mobile Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Mobile Collaboration Symposium will discuss and white-board various mobile "challen...

Federal Mobile Strategic Sourcing Day, hosted by the Mobile Services Category Team and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center, will be held on Tuesday, August 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at GSA Headquarters, 1800 F St., NW, Washington, D.C. Note: Registration opens at 8:30 a.m., please arrive at least 15 minutes early to clear security. This educational event for the Federal contracting community is open to govern...

Federal agencies are under pressure to optimize data center efficiency and effectiveness. As agencies serve mobile users, manage expanding flows of data, and employ platforms, services and infrastructures as a service, these data centers must be dynamic, elastic and reliable. These imperatives are sparking fresh thinking about how federal agencies should approach network management. A key challenge is that hardware-centric networks cannot supp...

The ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit will be held on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating discussing the latest tools and trends in mobility. (Mobile Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Mobile Collaboration Symposium will discuss and white-board various mobile "challenge...

Federal networks are straining under demands posed by increased use of mobile devices, teleworking and alternative schedules, bandwidth-hungry applications, video traffic, cyber risks, and exploding data volumes. Many agencies have invested in modernizing the desktop, compute and storage domains of their IT infrastructures. But they nevertheless find themselves saddled with outdated legacy networking environments comprised of single-function a...

Proactive Approaches For Getting Ahead of Cyber Risk Defense and federal networks continue to be successfully attacked, often via cybersecurity blind spots that enable hackers and malware to gain entry to data. These blind spots consist of aging software and hardware assets that reside on federal networks and desktops that are end-of-life (EOL), not approved, or not properly configured. Illustrating the scale of the problem, Federal CIO Tony S...

Join MITRE and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center on November 17 at the MITRE campus in McLean, VA for a morning of brainstorming and whiteboarding on Internet of Things topics of importance to the Federal Government. The MITRE-ATARC Internet of Things Collaboration Symposium will features IoT subject matter experts from government, academia and private industry. The outcomes of these interactive sessions will be compiled in a Wh...