The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issue that must be met to ensure continued use and expansion of the Internet for commercial and government services. On...

Recent White House and National Archives and Records Administration memorandums have directed Agencies to reform records management practices by creating a framework that will provide a foundation for leveraging information to improve agency performance and reduce unnecessary costs and burdens. Through these mandates, agencies must update current plans for improving records management programs, paying particular attention to electronic records...

You are invited to join us for a 60-minutes discussion about how to improve citizen services while reducing costs with innovative technologies. We’ll explore best practices government organizations are using today, clearly defined metrics and key performance indicators agencies can quickly deploy solutions that can have a significant positive impact on the citizen engagement process. We will look at some of the low cost effective and inn...

Big data is a new term being used to describe the explosive growth of datasets as well as the new architectures that are evolving to address the storage, management and analytic functions. As defense and intelligence agencies seek to use the increasing amount of available data to make mission-critical decisions on the battlefield, there is heavy emphasis on smart data and imagery collection, capture, storage and analysis to drive real-time int...

There are plenty of changes coming in the way the federal government operates and manages technology. And it’s always important to keep up to date with new developments with both government and the private sector. The Administration has challenged all agencies to focus on effective ways to foster citizen engagement as part of its mandate for more open and transparent government operations. And a recent Executive Order directs federal age...

When Nate Rushfinn, Certified Enterprise Architect with CA Technologies’ Public Sector, presented “A Cloud Model That Works for the Federal Government” at the 2011 Digital Government Institute Cloud-Enabled Government Conference & Expo, attendees wanted more. Session attendees called the presentation “fantastic” and said Rushfinn gave an "excellent presentation about guidelines for going to cloud”. Sever...

Over the past year, Office of Management and Budget Memorandums (OMB M) have made great strides ratcheting up FISMA requirements, but how do you know what you should be doing? OMB has formally improved and standardized the Authorization process by: Setting the goal to achieve “near-real-time security awareness for all government Information Technology (IT) systems Increasing authority for CIO’s (Federal Information Technology (IT)...

The Administration has issued a directive requiring all U.S. government agencies to upgrade their public-facing Web sites and services to support IPv6 by September 30, 2012. There have been plenty of starts and stops in implementing this next generation Internet address operation. And with this deadline quickly approaching, many federal agencies are still looking for guidance on what to do, how quickly to do it, and the business case for doin...

With Federal agencies directed by OMB to have one cloud solution in place by December 2011 and up to three by June 2012, cloud-based services are now included in technology plans, and cloud-adoption within the federal government is moving forward. Those responsible for developing and implementing these solutions continue to struggle with understanding the variety of models available and choosing the best technologies, configurations, service a...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has identified IPv6 as a critical technology necessary to achieve many of the Administration’s aggressive IT modernization goals such as Cloud Computing, National Broadband Deployment, and SmartGrid. In addition, with the depletion of the remaining IPv4 address spaces in under a year; the transition to IPv6 has also become a continuity of operations issues that must be met to ensure continued us...