Federal Insights

Lessons learned from Air Force’s ILS-S logistics system modernization

The Air Force's Integrated Logistics System - Supply has been in a near-constant state of modernization since the 1980s. Lead engineer James Harbison details some lessons...

DLA’s new warehouse management pilot 'created the mold for what success looks like'

How the Navy discovered inventory management as a huge factor in fleet readiness

Customs and Border Protection adopts new technology to make traveling easier

At Customs and Border Protection, new technologies streamline customer service.

DISA wants to use cutting edge technology to streamline customer experience

Human-centered design at the heart of VA's CX initiatives

Customer experience begins at ‘home,’ with an agency’s own employees

State Dept working toward SBOM adoption to improve supply chain risk management

Although there’s some disagreement over when agencies will actually start benefitting from them, many agencies are currently laying the foundation to start using SBOMs.

With software memo out, OMB moves into cyber EO implementation phase

Getting to the bottom of software supply chain security

Why it takes a fourth party to accomplish third-party software supply chain risk assessments

Interior Department focusing on future of work, employee engagement, hiring

The Interior Department is putting together a future of work plan to determine what its needs and lessons learned are regarding telework, office space and employee engagement...

USDA focuses on employee experience

Giving employees a voice at DHS

Don’t overlook employees in the drive for better customer experience

Unified networks support wide range of IoT devices

The internet of things, or IoT, refers to sensors with an extremely wide range of capabilities, network requirements, and power needs.

New research puts Internet of Things at forefront of public-private partnerships

Creating a safe space for IoT

GSA considers how to interconnect systems for new buildings

The 3 musts of a robust federal telework future

Permanent hybrid environments will require agencies to give teleworkers capabilities identical to what they have in the office. Here are the three critical requirements to...

DHS expands zero trust without adding end user challenges

EPA wants digitization and enterprise solutions for a hybrid workforce post-pandemic

State Department shifting power to the end user as telework stays mainstream

Effective data protection requires data visibility, agency resiliency and a ransomware playbook approach

Agencies must prioritize data visibility, agency resiliency and a ransomware playbook approach to ensure effective data protection.

DoD takes preventive measures to protect data, ward off cyber attacks

CISA adapts to address cybersecurity threats

Mitigating the threat of ransomware, FHFA uses all the tools at their disposal

Kubernetes, containerization enable capable computing at the edge

Brandon Gulla, the chief technology officer of Rancher Government Solutions, said that virtualization is fast giving way to use of containerization managed under Kubernetes.

VA’s evolving IT infrastructure is vast, wide and can address any issue

Three perspectives on network modernization: 'fail fast, fail small, and succeed'

You can't copy-and-paste your way toward IT modernization

In a fierce competition for talent, workforce data is king

Agencies have always used the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey as a key tool to measure feedback and satisfaction from their current workers. But Wayne Bobby, vice...

VA’s first-ever employee journey map charting new course for talent management

Hybrid work brings new professional development possibilities to NASA

Strengthening the acquisition talent pipeline is a top GSA priority for 2022

Agencies look toward new emergency networks when disaster strikes

Agencies are eyeing a range of possibilities to take advantage of 5G advances, but perhaps no application is more urgent than ensuring and even boosting connectivity to aide...

DHS S&T works through possibilities and challenges of 5G adoption with first responders

How the Air Force manages risk in its supply chains

When a part is needed for a plane in the Air Force, it usually comes through the 448th Supply Chain Wing in the Air Force Sustainment Center. Ensuring that all those parts...

COVID has flipped what government and companies expect from supply and demand, now they are preparing

How the Army is bouncing its supply chain back from the COVID freeze

How the DLA pivoted to work supply chains during COVID

‘Going FAR before going FAIR,’ while juggling multiple clouds

The National Institutes of Health recently added Microsoft Azure to their other two cloud providers: AWS and Google Cloud. Some call those providers, “the big three.” NIH...

The Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Office looks to deliver computing resources around the world

DLA’s cloud migration: ‘Providing great certainty, in a time of uncertainty'

To your DevOps and CloudOps practices, add FinOps

Use the cloud for frictionless identity and access management

Getting ID and access management right is important for several reasons. Sean Frazier, the federal chief security officer at Okta points out that the ID and access management...

Customs and Border Protection uses large toolbox for identity and access management

Education Department looking at zero trust to secure bots from being compromised

GAO looking for balance and best practices of identity verification

Would a joint environment with the private sector improve federal cybersecurity?

If federal agencies want to boost cybersecurity they’ll need to organize data beyond lakes or stores. That's why the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission recommended a joint...

Army hopes Big Data Platform enables deeper analysis across bigger datasets

DISA can never store all data in one place, but it can improve standardization

Maritime defense agencies view cybersecurity with new sense of urgency

Getting the most out of your cybersecurity data requires normalizing and a tiered storage approach

Creating the smart base of the future with 5G

The Department of Defense is aimed at creating the smart base of the future. Bases are essentially miniature cities, with all the same infrastructure needs like...

5G is the future of military connectedness and the Air Force is relying on providers to make it happen

Telemedicine with 5G could be a gamechanger for military health

Army is testing multiple avenues to implement 5G on bases

5G is changing the way the military connects its bases and its people

How to strengthen cyber identities and protect network privileges

End points – smart phones, tablets, notebook PCs, even desktop PCs – form employees’ entry points to networks, applications and data. The rise in remote working and...

DIU rethinking cyber endpoint protections through advanced deception tools

CISA piloting mobile security tools under shared services program

Ensuring user access, identity management at DISA grows complicated in mass telework

OPM’s changing cybersecurity posture: From protecting the perimeter to protecting it all

The Office of Personnel Management, as it plans to “sprint toward the cloud,” has selected its provider in order to, on two fronts, shed its legacy data center and legacy...

‘Simplicity is often the best approach’ to modernization

The technology clock is ticking, as agencies move toward modernization

No excuses left to avoid switching to GSA’s EIS contracts and adopting software-defined networks

Good data is a key component to AI innovation and machine learning

When the Biden administration launched an AI task force earlier this month to create a path to “democratize access to research tools to promote AI,” the goal of access...

Accounting for big dollars has Treasury embracing AI and machine learning

DLA on the right AI path

AI success means starting by asking, What is the problem?

Homeland Security wants to ‘cut through the hype’ of AI, find best uses only

"Artificial intelligence,” “machine learning” and “robotic process automation” (RPA) get thrown around synonymously, but differentiating between them is important...

Navy pursuing artificial intelligence to enable faster performance

AI, cloud to bring about ‘next generation’ of GAO oversight

How to best leverage your hybrid computing environment for efficiency and effectiveness in AI

The Pentagon's 'SWAT Team of Nerds'

They have been a separate entity around the Pentagon for less than five years, taking on a variety of complex technical issues for different DoD groups. And their...

Skilled hackers with good intentions

'Don't fear hackers, hire them.'

How agencies can benefit from good hackers

How to get supercomputer-like data strategies for AI/ML

How the agency curates, grows, stores and manages its data will determine how effective it will be at deploying AI/ML applications, according to Gary Hix, the chief...

NOAA uses AI for more accurate weather forecasts, prompting data storage challenges

NASA JPL building models of its petabytes of data with artificial intelligence

Idaho National Lab’s digital engineering team relies on algorithms and auditable data

Part 2: Air Force pursues lines of effort for IT risk reduction at bases

If it could, the Air Force would prefer to have airmen and guardians only perform the work they need to do – and find other solutions where possible.

EPA wants to build cybersecurity-aware culture along with IT modernization

Part 1: Air Force determining if managed services can help consolidate data across bases

Digital modernization never finished for DISA, but chasing trends isn’t the answer

Digital modernization starts with the mission, not the digits

CBP: 'Always proactive and staying ahead of advanced persistent threats'

We all have an idea of what the men and women of Customs and Border Protection look like, defending America in uniform. Then, of course, there’s the protection that’s not...

OIG investigations face challenge of both too little and too much data

Steven Burke, of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said one of the ways to overcome those challenges is with good business relationships among...