DESCRIPTION: The Shared Services concept of sharing a service or critical expertise across multiple business or mission functions within a particular agency or across multiple agencies has been around for many years with the intent of building high-quality capacity through economies of scale. The goal for Shared Services is to improve quality, consistency, and timeliness, reduce duplicative investments, and provide cost effectiveness of servic...

The Navy relies on a variety of technologies and platforms to project U.S. power around the world, such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines and other combat vessels. Tying all of these platforms together are IT systems. Relying on command-and-control systems, telecommunications, intelligence, satellites, and other IT systems is how the Navy ensures it successfully completes its mission. Because of this, the Navy has often been at the...

The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Intelligence Community must preserve our nation’s competitive advantages in highly contested environments; real-time flow of information, reliable communications, and accurate data are absolutely essential to our country’s strategic efforts. Our warfighters must succeed where stable communication links are sparse, bandwidth constraints impede data flow, cyber threats loom large, and the d...

Register Now for the 2024 Air Force Contracting Summit, scheduled for February 22 - 23, 2024 at the Rosen Centre in Orlando. Join more than 700 defense contractors at one of the top defense industry forums of the year and get the latest details on billions of dollars worth of new Air Force contracts, from construction to technology.

The National Defense Industrial Strategy is a first of its kind document that lays out the framework for how the Defense Department will engage and work with industry as well as how DOD will invest in new technologies. The document describes a three-to-five-year plan that focuses on four priorities: resilient supply chain, workforce readiness, flexible acquisition, and economic deterrence. Government contractors in the IT and systems integrati...

Zero Trust is a cutting-edge cybersecurity method gaining ground, especially in defense and government agencies like the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Adopting a Zero Trust model revolves around the continuous verification and monitoring of all devices and users trying to access any network, ensuring cyber resiliency and robust security measures for secrets management, encryption, access control and auditing in warfighter operatio...

DESCRIPTION: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies have entered the government procurement environment and from everyone’s perspective these technologies are here to stay. These newer technologies enable us to re-imagine service delivery and provide more efficient operations; however, there are still concerns about ethical and legal implications, intellectual property rights, data and privacy protection, and more....

DISA'S Priorities for 2024 and Beyond: An In Depth Look Through the Lens of Agency Leadership

Platform teams use HashiCorp Terraform to securely provision and update Kubernetes resources. In this webinar, learn two new ways to securely manage Kubernetes across multiple environments with Terraform: Terraform Cloud Operator v2 and dynamic provider credentials. Terraform Cloud Operator v2 for Kubernetes: The newest version of Terraform Cloud Operator streamlines infrastructure management and helps platform teams create a Kubernetes-native...

Cloud waste is pervasive across all organizations, regardless of their level of cloud maturity. A lot of this cloud spend is avoidable, and four leading factors contribute to it: overprovisioned resources, idle or underutilized resources, a gap in needed skills, and lack of an expiration date for resources. HashiCorp Terraform helps organizations manage costs, enforce policies, and increase productivity at each stage of their cloud journey. Us...