Modern warfare has dramatically shifted over the past two decades. Data and technology have become as important to 21st century defense as bombs and bullets. And as the U.S. expands its focus on Great Power competition with near-peer adversaries like China and Russia, the Department of Defense has placed a greater emphasis on using modern, data-driven technologies to enable better and quicker decision-making in life and death scenarios. Defens...

SOLVING THE TOUGHEST CLOUD CHALLENGES TOGETHER Federal agencies have invested years incorporating multiple styles of IT architecture to solve financial, mission, and operational challenges. As a result, unifying resources across private and public clouds, simplifying the command and control of IT infrastructure, leveraging AI to seamlessly deliver the right resources where and when they’re needed, and securing the enterprise and its part...

From Cloud First to Cloud Smart policies, cloud computing has underpinned much of government’s IT modernization for the past decade. The importance of cloud adoption took on an increased urgency over the past two years as agencies needed to quickly and securely enable remote work for thousands of employees. Now, as agencies at all stages of their cloud journey develop the next generation of cloud strategy, issues around security, enterpr...

Government lives on a sea of data. Navigating those waters has always been a challenge, a challenge that is getting more demanding by the day as the volume of data generated by agencies deepens and widens. The federal government’s Federal Data Strategy released two years ago was aimed at assisting agencies’ big data journey over the next 10 years. The last two years have forced agencies to adapt to growing data needs quickly and ef...

Our organizations and agencies work in a wide-ranging ecosystem involving multiple missions, locations, systems, and data sources. Orchestrating a robust security program, or executing a critical mission requires leaders to consider multiple sources of data at a near-real-time pace, resulting in potential information overload or risking mission failures. Implementing analytic automation to analyze and synthesize information enables leaders to...

Our organizations and agencies work in a wide-ranging ecosystem involving multiple missions, locations, systems, and data sources. Orchestrating a robust security program, or executing a critical mission requires leaders to consider multiple sources of data at a near-real-time pace, resulting in potential information overload or risking mission failures. Implementing analytic automation to analyze and synthesize information enables leaders to...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date- information! AGA is the member organization for government financial management professionals. We lead and encourage change that benefits our field and all citizens. Our training events, professional certification, publications and ongoing education help members build their skills and advance their careers. Who we are Our members work in government financial management across sectors and worldw...

Emerging technologies promise new abilities to make our increasingly fragile global society more resilient. To sustain this progress, nations must invest in research, expand their digital infrastructures, and increase digital literacy so that their people can compete and flourish in this new era. Yet, at the same time, no nation or international organization is able to keep pace with the appropriate governance structures needed to grapple with...

IT modernization continues to be a guiding light for the federal government, but long-standing issues still complicate agencies’ plans, in addition to urgent new issues. Continuing cloud migration and management, more potent cybersecurity and supply chain risks, budgeting, as well as evolving remote work environments add up to an increasingly complex environment for agencies looking to modernize their IT at scale.Adapting to those challe...

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date- information! AGA is the member organization for government financial management professionals. We lead and encourage change that benefits our field and all citizens. Our training events, professional certification, publications and ongoing education help members build their skills and advance their careers. Who we are Our members work in government financial management across sectors and worldw...