Two years of pandemic living made clear the depth and breadth of the digital divide – states lacking robust internet and wireless infrastructure discovered the gaps that made it far more difficult to provide essential services in a work-from-home world. Today, states and localities are considering investment in such diverse areas as IoT, emergency preparedness, school security, and strengthening their logistics and supply chain managemen...

Federal agencies, both civilian and military, are seeing opportunities to expand their mission to serve the public through the application of new technologies. Leading the way: Unlocking the potential of 5G to power leading-edge IoT applications. Many agencies now have multiple sensors and edge computing devices that need blazing fast, low-latency, stable connections, particularly if they are in remote or hard-to-reach locations. For instance,...

Enterprise-wide automation has become a necessity to keep pace with the evolving demands of modern IT. As security threats grow and workloads scale in complexity, federal government agencies require a simple but robust automation solution.Red Hat Ansible helps the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) automate their workloads and secure IT environments through automating compliance and governance.Join Red Hat experts on August 3rd in this...

The goal of every data initiative is to drive smarter decisions and deliver better outcomes. But that won't happen unless security is front and center in the data evolution. Join us online Wednesday, July 13 from 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m. ET to hear from government and industry experts about how to create a secure data ecosystem. These data ecosystems should have a seamless process for analyzing and sharing data, data that you can use to make measurabl...

Join us for The Benefits of Digital Document Workflows on Efficiency and Compliance, the first session of the Mission Support Summer Webinar Series presented by Adobe, Microsoft and Carahsoft. A Forrester consultant will share research study highlights on the benefits of automated digital processes for government, and how Adobe's integration with tools like Microsoft 365 can further streamline your workflows and create better employee and citi...

Leave your cloud pain points at the door and learn the value of building FinOps best practices. Incorporating these practices will provide your agency with mature processes that maximize the business value from cloud spend. We’ll provide FinOps lessons learned, from project planning to cost optimization. Wherever your agency is in its cloud journey, get insights to optimize cloud spend and meet your cloud goals. Objectives: Learn about F...

Identity underpins every public sector priority today, and identity modernization unleashes the full potential of digital government. The 2022 Okta Gov Identity Summit brings together top leaders from the public sector community to address the urgency of identity modernization. They will discuss how cloud-smart identity accelerates zero trust adoption, strengthens national defense, fights fraud, and improves customer experiences. Experts will...

Agencies are trying to move faster than ever to modernize and transform their systems and processes. For federal financial service agencies, from the Internal Revenue Service to the Securities and Exchange Commission, accelerating the development of new applications and the modernization of legacy ones is a critical part of meeting their mission. From Agile to DevSecOps, continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) automation to robot...

There is a lot of emphasis on IT modernization in the federal government, from the push to grow funding for the Technology Modernization Fund to Army efforts to modernize IT for multi-domain operations. On another track, the President's Management Agenda identifies workforce transformation as its top priority. There is a clear connection between these two broad initiatives – modernizing IT is a way to streamline how programs are managed...

The public sector is overburdened with repetitive and administrative work. But with automation, agencies in federal, state, and local government are offloading low-value work so that people can focus on serving the mission. From citizen service delivery and health care to rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse, automation boosts the government’s capacity, speed, accuracy, and resilience while improving employee and citizen engagement. Join...