The government contracting environment has been rocked by two watershed events – the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation’s reaction to the murder of George Floyd. In this WT Power Breakfast, we’ll look at the early lessons learned from COVID-19 and the challenges that companies, customers and employees have faced. Leading executives will share how they have adapted to managing and supporting remote workers as well as how they ha...

The question is no longer whether to move to the cloud; most agencies are already on that journey, and they acknowledge that cloud is an essential part of the modernization process. Many, however, have computing systems built over decades for very specific mission needs. Once the easy moves—like email—have happened, the path to the cloud for mission systems becomes significantly more complicated. Depending on the size and mission o...

The President’s Management Agenda set out an aggressive plan for more effective and efficient government, and a key component of that plan is the modernization of agencies’ technology infrastructure. In a time of budget questions and manpower shortages, how do agencies deliver on this goal? This FCW Summit will explore how agencies have navigated the policy developments, the workforce challenges and look at who has delivered the be...

Digital transformation is a journey and IT modernization is a key part—along with transforming business processes, developing a data strategy, and reskilling the workforce. In this FCW Workshop, experts from both government and industry will share their experiences with digital transformation, including: Leveraging IT modernization to refine business processes Streamlining inefficient workflows Using automation to liberate workers from l...

While nearly all government IT departments are being asked to deliver increased services with less funding --- the costs and latency constraints of traditional disk-based storage systems used in the past result in high costs and erratic performance, particularly for databases, virtualized servers, and virtual desktop applications. Solid-state, flash-based storage promises relief from the ongoing purchase cycle of massive, expensive, low-perfor...