The pandemic showed that Federal computer systems are aging, redundant, and struggling. Congress appropriated $1 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the White House added $500 million as part of the Cyber Executive Order – for a total of $1.5 billion in available TMF dollars. These new funds present an immense opportunity for our nation to modernize our aging government technology sy...

For Federal agencies, modern contact centers are essential to delivering better, faster government services. These digital channels are the first touchpoint for collaboration with one another, with citizens and service members, and with industry partners – and ensuring a positive customer experience is essential to success. So, how can teams modernize their digital services to drive efficiency and step up service delivery? Join MeriTalk...

The milCloud® 2.0 Bootcamp Series returns on November 17 in Arlington, Virginia. Join AWS and GDIT for a half-day event to explore how mission partners can leverage AWS GovCloud on milCloud® 2.0 to get the flexibility and choice needed to meet virtually any cloud need. Together, we’ll explore the AWS GovCloud services and capabilities available to mission partners, walk through the provisioning process, dive into a customer succe...

On October 28, 2021, cyber professionals from across government will gather for a virtual experience at Cyber Central. Join us as we explore increasingly hot button cyber issues that are top-of-mind in the new Administration, Congress, and wider cyber community. Specifically, we’ll address the following: How agencies can meet the latest security directives outlined in the Administration’s May Cyber EO How prioritization of secure c...

Federal funding currently represents one-third to one-half of state and local IT budgets. These federal grants have traditionally funded major, complex, and expensive state government IT systems going back almost half a century for welfare, child support, child welfare, healthcare and other social services and healthcare related system applications. In many state & local governments, the COVID pandemic strained the operations of these lega...

It’s time to flip the paradigm…and see IT security teams and protocols as the “cloud accelerators” they are. Progressive security teams see the possibilities, but they need the right strategies, processes, and tools in place to make it happen. A zero-trust mindset is critical, but agencies also need a modern secure operations center (SOC) that acts as a security force multiplier. It’s a central command center tha...

It’s time to flip the paradigm…and see IT security teams and protocols as the “cloud accelerators” they are. Progressive security teams see the possibilities, but they need the right strategies, processes, and tools in place to make it happen. A zero-trust mindset is critical, but agencies also need a modern secure operations center (SOC) that acts as a security force multiplier. It’s a central command center tha...

Cyber Smoke was founded in 2011 by six industry and government professionals for the sole purpose of collaborating on cyber security at the Department of Homeland Security. Ten years later, it is still the most talked about and widely attended networking event in the Federal market. While it was stubbed out for much of 2020 as the pandemic took its toll on in-person events, we are excited to announce the return of MeriTalk’s Cyber Smoke....

While 84% of Department of Defense (DoD) IT decision makers say accelerating enterprise cloud adoption is critical to meeting warfighters’ needs, 96% still continue to face migration delays. What is hindering progress, and what do DoD organizations need to move the migration needle forward? MeriTalk surveyed more than 100 DoD IT decision makers to explore the impact enterprise cloud migration delays have on DoD missions, security, and co...

Cafés are a place to meet, mingle, and express ideas – and at MeriTalk’s Cloud Café, we aren’t serving up a regular menu of quiche, coffee, and chamomile. Cloud Café will focus on the latest technologies and policies accelerating cloud implementation, collaboration, and innovation across the public sector. We’ll kick off this caffeinated virtual forum with a live keynote and engaging discussions wit...