The pandemic showed that Federal computer systems are aging, redundant, and struggling. Congress appropriated $1 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the White House added $500 million as part of the Cyber Executive Order – for a total of $1.5 billion in available TMF dollars. These new funds present an immense opportunity for our nation to modernize our aging government technology sy...

The milCloud® 2.0 Bootcamp Series returns on November 17 in Arlington, Virginia. Join AWS and GDIT for a half-day event to explore how mission partners can leverage AWS GovCloud on milCloud® 2.0 to get the flexibility and choice needed to meet virtually any cloud need. Together, we’ll explore the AWS GovCloud services and capabilities available to mission partners, walk through the provisioning process, dive into a customer succe...

While 84% of Department of Defense (DoD) IT decision makers say accelerating enterprise cloud adoption is critical to meeting warfighters’ needs, 96% still continue to face migration delays. What is hindering progress, and what do DoD organizations need to move the migration needle forward? MeriTalk surveyed more than 100 DoD IT decision makers to explore the impact enterprise cloud migration delays have on DoD missions, security, and co...

Cafés are a place to meet, mingle, and express ideas – and at MeriTalk’s Cloud Café, we aren’t serving up a regular menu of quiche, coffee, and chamomile. Cloud Café will focus on the latest technologies and policies accelerating cloud implementation, collaboration, and innovation across the public sector. We’ll kick off this caffeinated virtual forum with a live keynote and engaging discussions wit...

Cloud is evolving the way defense agencies defend assets, support the warfighter and gain tactical advantages. This event will showcase how mission partners can move to modern IT platforms and new technologies that can advance the mission on the battlefield and beyond.

The rapid shift to remote work in 2020 resulted in new security and IT priorities, and an unprecedented increase in complexity and visibility challenges. A recent survey of global IT and cybersecurity professionals looked at the impact of those changes and discovered a reported rise in IT, device, and security complexity – and widening visibility gaps. As agencies plan for employees to return to the office, either full-time or part-time,...

Innovation requires looking at new approaches to age-old challenges. And today's emerging technologies provide exciting pathways for rapid change. This program will take a deep dive into some of the solutions that will change the world of government.

For the U.S. Army, one thing matters above all others – executing the mission and protecting the American people. As part of the Defense Department’s 2020 Telework Readiness Task Force, the Army enabled maximum telework, ramping up to 350K soldiers using remote work systems in less than a month. The Army adapted operations and innovated, and as a result: Boosted enterprise capacity four-fold Ensured half of all medical interactions...

Secure multicloud-as-a-service (MCaaS) has the power to rewrite the cloud trajectory for your Federal agency – no matter where you are in your cloud journey. Adopting a multicloud strategy means leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud providers – including on-prem and edge cloud technologies – to acquire capabilities that best meet your business and mission requirements. And, as agencies look to migrate applications and wo...

CDM is the Federal civilian government’s frontline program to protect against and mitigate cyber-attacks. But security deployments often take years to complete, and in the wake of increasingly high-profile hacks that are thwarting top-notch defenses, time is ticking to meet the challenge. How is the CDM program working with agencies to accelerate the path to better security? And how should agencies engage the CDM program to inoculate aga...