Data has become the lifeblood of federal, state and local agencies’ missions, allowing more nimble, informed and effective operations and service. It drives almost every aspect of government services, from cyber threat detection, to mission critical support operations at civilian and military agencies, to externally-facing customer services. Understanding how to harness that data and use it in new, innovative ways remains a continuing ch...

The regulations governing the interaction of small businesses in federal government contracting are complex and often undergoing changes. Please join us for a webinar series that explores the relevant rules and what government contractors should consider when claiming a particular size and/or status as well as considerations for entities that mentor and/or acquire small businesses. Crowell & Moring will address individually small business...

Times are changing, and risks to organizations are becoming more dynamic. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s this: Risk has become increasingly complex and the way organizations respond to and manage risk must change in response. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by OnSolve found that organizations are underprepared, overconfident and lack the technology necessary to respond to and manage risk complexity....

Military and first responder deployments in harsh or hostile environments require enterprise-grade technology to deliver secure comms as well as compute to power applications critical for the demands of highly distributed tactical operations. It is also vital that these rugged IT systems are easy to deploy and can be managed with field operators, and not IT specialists. Agility is key and the days of packing in separate rackmount solutions for...

Network automation is critical for supporting the increasing application and workload needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Red Hat Ansible, a foundation for building and operating automation at scale, provides better control over and visibility into network resources, bringing real-time decision-making capabilities to the warfighter.Join U.S. Marine Corps colleagues for a hands-on workshop leading you through the application of Red H...

The workplace of February 2022 looks dramatically different from the workplace of March 2020. While employees have adjusted to the changes in policies, procedures, and even work location, are they as engaged and fulfilled as they were two years ago? Now more than ever, it is critical to provide self-service access to workplace information that helps people do their jobs and feel secure that management understands and is addressing their concer...

To be effective at work, we all need to feel that we have the trust and confidence of our peers and supervisors. Creating a psychologically safe culture in your organization starts from the top. However, everyone can play a role in defining and achieving it in the workplace. Join NextGen and GovLoop online Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. ET to learn about the importance of psychological safety and the role it plays in a truly collaborative environm...

Most of today's data estates are in disarray, spread across organizational silos, big data systems, and out into the public cloud. As the edge has become the focal point of data creation and analytics, it is creating an exponential increase in data sprawl with volumes spread and trapped even further apart. All this adds to and compounds the tremendous costs to support, upgrade, and migrate to the latest tools and cloud-native techniques design...

With the release of OMB's Federal Zero Trust Strategy on January 26, 2022, agencies now have guidelines for achieving the Zero Trust mandates of the Cybersecurity Executive Order. The strategy further codifies the importance of moving off of legacy security infrastructure to embrace a Zero Trust architecture. But as agencies rush to develop Zero Trust implementation plans, they must carefully consider key aspects of their deployment or risk co...

In this upcoming webinar, subject matter experts will discuss how we are transforming business processes to aggregate data and facilitate innovation in the DoD. While innovation takes many forms, by-products, and opportunities, agencies and departments need to be able to understand their data scope so they can discover, analyze, redirect, take action, and ultimately innovate.That's where CORAS is the pivotal SaaS tool. We use business intellig...