This session will provide an update on GSA’s multi-award, 10-year, $50B program, agencies’ EIS transition progress and successes, the importance of cyber, the FITARA scorecard, the transition close out, what’s ahead in 2021, and more. Learning Objectives: - Learn more about GSA’s EIS and the newly named OETS organization - Gain insights on EIS progress. key features, benefits, progress to date program’s key featur...

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence and Global Strategy & Policy teams will provide a briefing on SolarWinds. They will cover the campaign's scope, timeline, impact, lessons learned, and policy implications in the wake of the most damaging supply chain attack in recent memory. This briefing will strictly focus on their knowledge of the SolarWinds hack and the threat it poses for government organizations at every level. The brief...

AI transitioned from a “boutique” concept to a “mainstream” concept during COVID-19. Public servants across every mission in government pioneered new use cases for AI, sometimes rolling out solutions at a very low cost, very rapidly, and with huge mission impact. But for many, AI is a topic that is still intimidating and daunting to think about. And for some, it's completely unapproachable. In this virtual fireside chat...

“GSA’s Alliant 2 – Looking Ahead” The Federal Insights Exchange planning committee in collaboration with the Networks & Telecommunications Community of Interest invites you to participate in a lively and informative discussion on “GSA’s Alliant 2 – Looking Ahead”. GSA leaders Paul Bowen, Marcelo Olascoaga and Omar Saeb will offer the latest on this popular, multiple award, 10-year, $50B GSA A...

A 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article offered an “…analysis of all US military casualties from October 2001 through December 2017 found that survival among the most critically injured casualties increased 3-fold during the course of the conflicts and that 3 key interventions (tourniquets, blood transfusions, and prehospital transport within 60 minutes) were associated with 44% of mortality reduction...

Overview: The General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) Program, also known as the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program, establishes long-term, government-wide contracts with commercial firms offering millions of commercial supplies and services that federal, state, and local agencies order directly from GSA Schedule contractors, or through the GSA Advantage!® online shopping...

Mainframes have a critical role as part of the world’s computing infrastructure, across a variety of industries and workloads, and advances in the IBM Z platform have made it possible to enable even more advanced computing, like AI, Blockchain, IOT – using modern technologies like containers and microservices. As many of you have hybrid cloud environments, it’s critical to your success to leverage the benefits of modern appli...

In this virtual fireside chat, Google Cloud Security Expert, Dan Prieto and Google Cloud Director of Government Security & Compliance, Jeanette Manfra will tackle some of the most top of mind security questions in the industry today. They’ll reflect on the recent cyber attacks, including Solar Winds, and what governments and private industries could do differently moving forward to address evolving risks. They’ll provide insigh...

Federal agencies are rapidly deploying intelligent automation to increase operational efficiency, reduce low-value workload and improve citizen services. Meanwhile, Industry continues delivering new and innovative solutions to the RPA, AI and Blockchain markets. Co-hosted by GSA and ACT-IAC, the Digital Transformation summit is a virtual two-day event set to examine the latest developments in intelligent automation and the work done to ignite...

What do people look like when they are on your network or accessing a website or system? In most cases, a person is assigned a username, role and access rights that govern their interactions with the organization or agency. This controls what they can and cannot do within a network, application or website. But what should bots look like when they are operating on your network? Interestingly, a bot should not be treated differently: it must be...