Driven by complex project demands and unclear development objectives, today’s state and local leaders face no shortage of challenges in building and preparing for the next generation of infrastructure projects. With many grant recipients awaiting funding and even more subject to longer-term regulatory backlogs, officials are at a crossroads on best practices for next steps- everything from pre-production mobilization to assigning proper...

Today’s government leaders are turning to next generation secure cloud solutions to support mission objectives. Evolving Executive Orders and OMB memos, as well as the National Cybersecurity Strategy, all acknowledge the range of benefits cloud services provide to security and resilience and a defense-in-depth approach to securing the mission at scale. To support this shift, it is essential that government leaders take a collaborative ap...

Government agencies are responsible for protecting public trust, delivering excellence in services, and, above all else, upholding the promise of government. Through a combination of the lessons learned from rapidly evolving hybrid work environments, exposed inequities in pandemic responses, and bolstered federal guidance in the Biden Administration’s Executive Order, the 21st Century Integrated Experience Act (IDEA), among others, agenc...

Upgrading or replacing hardware and networks, moving to the cloud, and implementing zero trust usually get the spotlight when the subject of modernizing IT comes up. But upgrading outdated software applications that run IT is also a critical part of the process and can help speed modernization across an agency. Outdated software is deeply embedded in government IT, supporting a myriad of applications.

The Federal 100 Awards is the original and most prestigious awards program celebrating federal IT professionals. Some of the honorees have a track record for success. Others are up-and-comers who charted new territory and proved what can be accomplished in the future. How have these government and industry experts changed the game? Tune in to this special installment of GovExec TV to hear from some of the Fed 100 award winners – about t...

Data is an invaluable resource in developing strategies and enabling ongoing innovation to achieve mission success more efficiently – across all aspects of an agency including operations and customer experience. But to maximize the impact of data, leaders must balance the need for strong cybersecurity with the demands of seamless data flow. How can data governance be effectively created to secure data and allow for its sharing? What tech...

February 7 – 8: Join us Online February 9: Join us In-Person at the Hilton Washington DC Capitol Hill Of the groups most heavily affected by the COVID pandemic, few have seen a greater shift in their roles, responsibilities, and daily lives than government employees. For some, the changes have been as small as working from a new location. For others, as dramatic as rethinking their entire role and responsibilities. The unifying factor, h...

Across the government, agencies have found it increasingly challenging to identify, organize, analyze, and act on the flood of data they collect. This is a problem leaders are actively working on, but with data stored in disparate and often untracked silos—there is no quick and easy fix. For most public sector organizations, decades of data exceed even the most advanced processing capabilities. So what tools should agencies use to collec...

New, exciting, transformative technologies are emerging that have the potential to reshape how the government fulfills its mission. Mass telework and communication tools, and the dynamic infrastructure like cloud and software-defined networks that support those tools, are making it possible for federal agencies to work in new ways. At the same time, advances in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and big data collecti...

Join us for the latest edition of Roadmap to Modernization, where government leaders reveal how they are turning insights and ideas into action through the use of new technologies such as AI and RPA and the adoption of Cloud. We’ll also discuss how they are thinking differently though Agile and DevSecOps to bring new technologies quickly to the edge. You won’t want to miss this installment of Roadmap to Modernization; register today!