COVID-19 crystalized America’s innovation imperative. MerITocracy 2022: American Innovation Forum is an event produced by MeriTalk in partnership with Hill and White House leadership as well as industry visionaries. More than a talk shop, this program will underscore the requirement for tangible outcomes and practical operational plans. MerITocracy will focus on creative thinking around critical issues that sit at the nexus of policy and...

This Summit is now in it’s fifth year and is produced in partnership between ACT-IAC and the HIMSS NCA Chapter. With transitions occurring in healthcare, are you wondering what changes are being planned for the future, in 2022, 2025, 2030 and beyond? Healthcare landscape is ever-changing. From the many articles written, healthcare in the next five to ten years will be delivered through integrated ecosystems that include updated policies,...

Shared services is a business model for modernizing the delivery of mission support activities common to multiple government agencies. It involves setting standards for service delivery that meet the needs of multiple customer agencies and migrating agencies to modern, scalable and secure platforms operated by best of breed government or industry service providers. Managing organizational change and creating positive customer experiences are c...

Forced by the pandemic and remote work requirements, agencies at all levels of governments made a pivot to digital services quickly in 2020. Now, many organizations are pausing to evaluate their progress so far and create a strategic plan to target new opportunities, evaluate customer expectations and experience, and address workforce training needed in the new environment. As part of this digital re-evaluation, agencies will need to get buy-i...

Women Empowering Women Women in today's era, more than previous times, are navigating pathways to more senior management and executive positions, while managing their work and home life, their steps in growth, and their selected roles, especially in fields where women are underrepresented. The second annual Women in Leadership Forum will focus on the techniques and steps of how women in primarily male-dominated organizations or agencies have a...

Although it got an encouraging $1 billion funding shot in the arm from the American Rescue Plan Act in early 2020, the effort to modernize and transform an aging infrastructure remains a complicated task that takes coordination, executive buy-in and detailed security and data strategies to make it work. The $1 billion set aside for the Technology Modernization Fund in the ARP smooths some modernization budgeting issues for agencies, which have...

As agencies push their modernization and digital transformation efforts forward, they know that the foundation of the work must focus on the network level. Right before the pandemic hit, the CIO Council provided a white paper to help agencies lay out a plan for their next generation networks. It discussed how new and emerging technologies will change networks of the future and predicted increased use of 5G wireless networks and software define...

DESCRIPTION The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how the business of government gets done. Within acquisition, new opportunities have presented themselves to innovate and collaborate more effectively with industry. In this changing landscape with a new Administration, an increased focus on supporting the federal workforce, continuing telework, and a new urgency to address supply chain and cybersecurity challenges, it's a different world and we ma...

Federal agencies are rapidly deploying intelligent automation to increase operational efficiency, reduce low-value workload and improve citizen services. Meanwhile, Industry continues delivering new and innovative solutions to the RPA, AI and Blockchain markets. Co-hosted by GSA and ACT-IAC, the Digital Transformation summit is a virtual two-day event set to examine the latest developments in intelligent automation and the work done to ignite...

In October of 2020, then-Defense Secretary Esper defined defense readiness as "our military’s ability to answer the nation’s call, and to fight and win, anytime, anywhere. … The question we must answer is this: if called upon to fight tonight, are we ready?" Ensuring that answer is "yes" demands change in every corner of the Department of Defense, and especially in the technology that will power tomorrow's military. Cybersec...