Today’s health insurance marketplace has come a long way from the cost sinkhole many predicted it would become. Healthcare.gov became the biggest challenge in Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 50-year history. A year into development, Henry Chao, the Deputy CIO at CMS, made a daring decision to change course and adopt new technologies that effectively supported CMS’s modern marketplace initiative. Join MarkLogic and Carahsoft...

VMware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) is quickly transforming the way agencies build and manage their datacenter and IT infrastructure. New organizational requirements are encouraging many technology leaders of the future to embrace recent innovations in computing like VMware Hyper-Converged Software (HCS), now tightly integrated with EMC hardware, and available as a single appliance solution, VxRail. Agencies are rapidly investing in H...

Agencies are challenged by tight budgets, complex procurement rules, and rigorous security requirements. But, government needs the latest technology to fulfill their mission, and cloud adoption offers the path forward. This webinar will look at how agencies are addressing these challenges from both a mission and administrative services perspective as well as from an acquisition standpoint. Join this panel discussion to hear an insightful conve...

Contracting officers don’t always receive specific, “hands-on” training related to source selection. Instead, they must learn through on-the-job training that provides invaluable insight into the best practices for surviving the evaluation process. This webinar will dive into lessons learned, tricks of the trade, and practical tips for those involved with source selections. Attendees will walk away with advice and suggestion...

National Public Employer Labor Relations Association (NPELRA) is the premier organization for public-sector labor relations and human resources professionals. NPELRA is a network of state and regional affiliates with over 2,000 members around the country. The governmental agencies represented in NPELRA employ more than four million workers in federal, state, and local government. NPELRA's members represent public employers in a wide range of a...

The Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) gives agency Chief Information Officers greater authority and involvement in their agencies’ procurement, workforce and budget matters while driving a tighter, more integrated CIO partnership with other senior leaders, including Chief Financial Officers and other procurement and program management officials. Top officials also expect FITARA to propel improved cybersecurity postures ac...

Winning GSA Alliant/Alliant SB 2Our next Speaker Series will focus on Alliant 2/Alliant SB 2, GSA’s premier enterprise GWAC, which provides flexible access to customized IT solutions from a large, diverse pool of industry partners. With a $50 Billion program ceiling and a five-year base period with one five-year option, Learn how to win this must win GWAC!What are you doing to prepare for the GSA Alliant 2 Governmentwide Acquisition Cont...

Integrating Data in Silos: Solving Critical Government Operational Challenges Presented by: Henry Chao, Former Deputy CIO, Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and Jimmy Earley, Former CIO, South Carolina Government agencies collect, process, and disseminate vast quantities of internal and external information. Most of it sits in silos across systems that do not communicate. The data is difficult to access and impossible to bring together to use...

Agencies are taking a digital-first approach to improving the public’s experience in interacting with and obtaining services from the government. The U.S. Digital Services Playbook provides guiding principles to address the whole experience for citizen services online. The Playbook is drawn from successful practices in both the private and public sector. One of the tenants of these standards is the use of data to measure how well these d...

Please join Adobe on Wednesday, April 20th for an interactive seminar on how organizations across the U.S. are leveraging Adobe Connect to communicate instantly, and deliver rich and engaging eLearning content.Adobe Connect delivers virtual eLearning solutions which reduce the cost of in-person activities, and make collaborative sessions possible and more productive. With Adobe Connect, you can easily reuse content, courses, and curriculums, t...