Digital transformation is happening across the government. Citizens are driving the rate of change through their expectations. What we’ve seen over the past few years with the growth and acceptance of the cloud, mobility, application programming interfaces (APIs) and the ability to understand user behavior like never before through data analytics, those agencies which are taking advantage of the evolutions of technology are doing a better job meeting their customers’ needs.
In just over seven years, agencies have submitted more than 149,000 data sets to the data.gov portal. Of those, the Commerce and Interior departments account for more than 110,000 of them.
As the cybersecurity challenge has morphed into a multi-front battle – from the insider in the next cubicle to a distant but malevolent foreign power – chief information security officers, network operations and security operations center staffs have steadily acquired a variety of tools to counter the threats. Few federal agencies are operating with an abundance of resources, even for such a high priority activity as cybersecurity.
This program will provide a progress report on secure cloud computing in government.
The House recently passed the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act. The Senate is now considering it and Congressman Will Hurd, the author of the bill, said recently he’s confident the upper chamber will move on the bill.
This program will provide a progress report on CDM in government.
Let’s start by asking a simple question: Where does your agency want to be from a technology perspective, from a citizen services perspective by 2020?
Digital transformation is a hot topic in the federal community. But what do CIOs mean by digital transformation? Does digital transformation mean IT modernization? Does it mean moving to the cloud? Does it mean changing business processes and doing all of the above?
This program will provide a progress report on Data Center Optimization in government.
Modernization and optimization go hand in hand, but while a federal agency’s path to a 21st century IT system is straightforward, optimization of that system can be a complicated process.
This program will provide a progress report on DevOps in government.
Agencies move to the anywhere, anytime mobile model
This program will provide a progress report on Big Data in government.
Cybersecurity isn’t what it used to be. The rise of social engineering, the internet of things, and the convergence of the cyber and physical worlds mean the old model of building a virtual moat around your network castle isn’t so much obsolete as having been rendered a subset of the complete cybersecurity mission.
This program will provide a progress report on Internet of Things (IoT) in government.