This October, Government Executive will celebrate Teddy Award winners through a special series of virtual events. Winners will be unveiled each day from October 6-8, 2020. Throughout the week, we'll be unveiling the winners in each category, as well as interviews and presentations from those federal and private sector leaders, including from the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and more! Details about announcemen...

In times of crisis, the role of government is more important than ever. Technology has played a key role in ensuring the continuity of government operations and keeping critical services running. In this webinar, Kirt Peterson and Amber Herz from the USDA, and Rahim Kaba from OneSpan, discuss what it took to move at unprecedented speeds and ensure government workers had the technology and tools they needed to deliver essential services to far...

Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) 3.0 finalized policy responds to the migration of applications from a centralized security mandate to one that allows for security decentralization and accommodates the journey to the cloud. As more and more applications move to AWS, Azure, GCP and Software as a Service (SaaS), it is becoming increasingly unsustainable to continue using centralized security models. In fact, the network itself hasn’t evol...

Understanding customers’ preferences is critical for government agencies to deliver a citizen-centric experience. From measuring customer behavior to benchmarking success, data plays an essential role in delivering the seamless, integrated, and personalized experiences that government customers expect. As government agencies work to improve the omnichannel experience customers demand and trust, how can they gather a holistic picture of t...

Government is at an inflection point as long-brewing demographic changes begin to hit with full force. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity to reshape, retrain and reskill the federal workforce. Tune in to see Government Executive's editors will engage federal leaders, doers and innovators in discussions about how agencies are addressing the situation and shaping the government of tomorrow.

From trends in health and human services and economic output, to specifics around occupational, food, and public safety, the federal government produces an unimaginable amount of data on a daily basis. However, a plethora of silos, within and across agencies, pose serious barriers to truly gleaning the transformational insights of which this data is capable. With a recent mandate from the White House to harness data across the government and s...

Today’s information technology (IT) environment is constantly changing, bringing new opportunities along with new risks. Agencies across the federal government are challenged to keep pace with technological advances, speed up digital transformation, and increasingly adopt cloud services and mobile apps. With digital engagements and transactions on the rise, securing access to sensitive and classified data becomes even more critical to mi...

Government is changing. New technologies such as artificial intelligence are shifting possibilities but old challenges, from cyber threats to an aging workforce, outdated technical infrastructure to an unwieldy budget process, remain. That’s why bold, innovative ideas have never been more important to delivering government’s essential mission. At BOLD GOV, Government Executive and Nextgov are teaming up to explore the powerful comb...

From natural disasters to the creation of new offices to shifting priorities, government leaders are constantly adjusting to evolving mission directives. In times of change, how are the Department of Defense and federal agencies setting short-term and long-term priorities, responding quickly to new challenges and using technology to advance further, faster? Government Executive is teaming up with Defense One to take a closer look at how federa...

With the rise of digital government, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, federal agencies are collecting and analyzing more data than ever. Although this deluge of data can often be overwhelming, organizations that layer analytics on top of their data are able to uncover insights that improve operations, save money, inform policy and provide better services to citizens. Whether it’s defending the homeland, identifying wa...