Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud is coming to milCloud® 2.0. The new addition provides mission partners with immediate access to an expanded portfolio of secure cloud services so they can accelerate cloud adoption, simplify acquisition, and improve mission effectiveness. On February 24, 2021, we’ll preview the integration of AWS GovCloud services that complement milCloud® 2.0’s multi-tenant IL5 service catalogue. The hour...

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), MeriTalk, and the Partnership for Public Service collectively partnered on an initiative to provide the new administration operating and policy recommendations to improve the resilience of government. Through research and four round table discussions, government and industry addressed lessons learned, adapting to a "new norm," changes needed post-pandemic, and how gov...

The past year has shown the vital importance of IT to government service delivery. As we’ve all seen, interruptions/outages have real world impact on government efficiency and – importantly, on citizens’ lives. Considering the increased pressure on Federal IT from remote work, every Federal leader is focused on continuing the modernization momentum – transitioning to modern, digital services running in near real-time to...

MeriTalk’s newest installment of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) research program, “Defending HVAs: How Can CDM be the Security Hero?”, examines input from nearly 100 of CDM’s biggest players across government and industry to understand a specific aspect of their defense – High Value Assets (HVAs). The research explores HVA security challenges and steps Federal cyber teams are taking to mitigate ro...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has a huge mandate – to provide healthcare, benefits, and services to support the nation’s nearly 20 million veterans. In these extremely trying times, VA has met the health crisis with a remarkable expansion of IT-driven patient care capabilities, thanks to modernization of key underlying service architectures. VA innovated to outpace service demand during the coronavirus pandemic and as a result...

Cyber Defenders Assemble: AI, FedRAMP, TIC, Zero Trust Federal IT’s mightiest cyber avengers must assemble to defend the cloud, protect IoT and endpoints, secure data from internal and external threats, and shield against advancing arch-nemesis. To defeat the next age of cyber supervillains, agencies need to establish new security functions and implement innovative programs to Hulk smash the threats lingering outside – and within ...

While national elections dominate the political playing field and America revs up its defense against COVID-19, cyber attackers continue to plot against government agencies. In this environment, our CDM and cybersecurity heroes work hard to thwart malicious threats in real time and build lasting cyber resiliency. On December 3, join MeriTalk for the third iteration of the CDM Central Conference, where we’ll discuss not just CDM, but top...

Federal agencies urgently need to reskill employees in new technologies – to accelerate modernization efforts, strengthen the workforce, and make the most of data to advance the mission and service delivery. How can Federal agencies rise to the challenge of reskilling rapidly and efficiently at scale – while re-imagining work and government services in the midst of a pandemic? On Tuesday, December 1 at 1:30 p.m. ET, join MeriTalk,...

The dark web has long provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to plot illicit activities, often with huge implications on government. Forward-thinking agencies must investigate threats and emerging adversaries on their own turf. But analysts face extensive challenges – data overload, analysis paralysis, communication breakdown, and dead ends on the closed web – to name a few. And while priorities have shifted since the beginning o...

Moving an entire network to the cloud is challenging enough without worrying about re-architecting applications and workloads. On milCloud® 2.0, we built a native on-demand VMware environment to provide mission partners the power to accelerate their cloud migrations without conversion. Using this new technology, milCloud® 2.0 mission partners can empower digital workspaces, modernize their data centers, integrate clouds, and transform...