Modern connectivity has transformed government, but also dramatically expanded the attack surface. Agency missions bring unique challenges, and today's adversarial activities are anything but rudimentary. An effective cyber defense strategy depends on finely honed analytics and automation tailored to the network and the mission. And that, in turn, demands a deep understanding of both those mission needs and IT environments -- and the ability t...

Data is a natural byproduct of the business of government. However, federal agencies have been challenged as they try to gather, cleanse, standardize, mine and share that data. Now, however, new legislation (the Evidence Based Policymaking Act of 2019) and policy (OMB memo M-19-23) lay out the path agencies must follow to identify the data they plan to collect, use or acquire, as well as the methods and analytical approaches to facilitate the...

The federal government plays a dominant role in healthcare through its two major hospital systems (VA and Military Health System) and the funding of health sciences research by the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS, DOD and VA all are modernizing their systems, and increasingly looking to apply artificial intelligence to their massive health datasets. Attend this Workshop to learn how new technologies are transforming health initiat...

New Ways to Leverage Data Federal agencies and the contractors that work with them manage massive data sets—often legacy data. New directives from the White House place managing data as a key pillar of modernization and challenge agencies to find new tools and tactics to address security, analytics and daily operations. At this Washington Technology Power Breakfast, we’ll take a deep dive into how a cloud-based data warehousing sol...