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As the United States’ first unified border entity, Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) takes a comprehensive approach to border management and control, combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.This informative event will feature Mark Borkowski, Office of Acquisition and CBP’s Component Acquisition Executive...

This month’s AI in Government featured guest speaker is Brett Vaughan, Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) AI Portfolio Manager at the US Navy! AI is proving an essential technology to enhance and accelerate modern militaries. It should come as no surprise then that the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research is looking into AI applications to enhance and optimize areas related to AI assisted human decision ma...

DESCRIPTION Even though a year has gone by with the pandemic, Homeland Security and Law Enforcement agencies at every level - Federal, State, Local, and Tribal - continue to adapt their policies, processes and tools to execute their missions. There still continues to be a wide range of threats, data and system intrusions, cyber related incidents, identity theft, and infrastructure vulnerabilities existing in this environment. New operational c...

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy aims to transform virtually every aspect of the warfighting effort, and has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of both general-purpose and fit-for-purpose clouds. Some of those efforts are unique to DOD, reflecting the scale, missions and austere operating environments of military operations, while others are readily transferrable to most any agency. All, however, hold valuable lessons for those...

As modernization efforts continue to transform many facets of defense, missile defense systems are no different. Digital transformation must ensure the interoperability of command and control networks, sensors and Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) systems. Systems are being built to deliver with the speed, security and insights necessary to maintain current defensive operations, while evolving to meet the future threat environment. Thi...

ICIT Virtual Briefing | The Modern Security Battlefield While 2020 was fraught with tragic outcomes of social and economic proportions, security teams have learned many lessons on resilience and have orchestrated many technical innovations to secure a distributed workforce. An expanded attack surface, sophisticated breaches like the SolarWinds attack and a pressing need to improve operational efficiency, has reframed digital transformation pr...

As technology evolves, so do the threats to its security. The remote work shift caused by the continuing pandemic has pressed security teams to reassess how they verify and allow access. Zero Trust is a strategy, not a product, which reimagines the way access is granted to users, to data and to applications. Devices, which used to be central to identity, now include personal computers and home internet connections, which are not government iss...

A 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article offered an “…analysis of all US military casualties from October 2001 through December 2017 found that survival among the most critically injured casualties increased 3-fold during the course of the conflicts and that 3 key interventions (tourniquets, blood transfusions, and prehospital transport within 60 minutes) were associated with 44% of mortality reduction...

Mastering the cloud is essential to digitally transform your agency. Throughout this course, we will explore the ins and outs of cloud computing – how to leverage it to advance digital transformation and how to secure your cloud infrastructure for mission critical workloads. We’ll also uncover best practices for migrating to the cloud, how to build an infrastructure that supports both remote and onsite work, and how to acquire clou...