The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a difficult mission—as the Department CIO has often simplified it: they are here to save lives. Promoting well-being and “fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services” has never been more promising… or more complex. AFCEA Bethesda’s Breakfast with HHS provides an opportunity for IT leadership from...

The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill, enacted into law last December, allocates funds to sustain federal government operations throughout the 2023 fiscal year. But what, exactly, is in the 4,155-page Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023? What does $1.7 trillion buy? At a high level, the annual allocation increases military spending ($858 billion) and outlays for domestic programs ($772.5 billion). At the program level, the bill supports...

Leveraging AI/ML to Improve Mission Delivery Across Government Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are expected to revolutionize how government operates, enabling federal employees to focus on core responsibilities related to their agencies’ missions while spending fewer hours on administrative tasks. Moreover, federal decision makers are looking to harness the potential of AI/ML to make positive changes in areas such as healthc...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

Digital Transformation:Balancing Citizen Services with Enterprise Security Federal agencies clearly are committed to improving the quality and experience of citizen services, as seen in the heightened focus on UX/CX and human-centered design in recent years. Still, the availability of on-demand services, in everything from music and movie streaming to online banking, are reshaping public expectations. How can federal agencies meet those expect...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

The concept of the modern IT enterprise is not a fixed thing. The vision we have now soon will give way to a new vision, based on a wide array of drivers-including the emergence of new technologies and operational strategies, lessons learned from current modernization efforts, and the evolution of mission requirements. This roundtable discussion, the concluding event in our four-part IT Enterprise Spring, will provide attendees an opportunity...

The concept of a cyber ecosystem is essential to the administration’s efforts to strengthen the security of the federal IT enterprise. That ecosystem encompasses a broad range of cyber solutions, from data and systems security to automation and orchestration. This roundtable discussion, the concluding event in our 2019 Cyber Sprint series, will explore the evolution of the cyber ecosystem and what it means for agencies’ IT operatio...

From the beginning, the current federal IT modernization initiative has required agencies to balance the demands of their modernization requirements with the realities of the federal budget. That is why this administration has identified shared services and category management as underpinnings of its IT strategy. The rationale is simple: by capitalizing on their common requirements and leveraging their combined buying power, agencies can achie...