Join us for a virtual retirement benefits webinar for Federal Government Employees. From a local “federal benefits guru,” Ed Zurndorfer- you will be learning about the mechanics and intricacies of the Federal Government’s benefits package for its employees. Most attendees say they wished they had come decades earlier, but it’s never too late to learn about the benefits that will support you in your retirement.

Just as the pandemic changed the American workplace, it had a major disruptive effect on colleges and universities across the country, forcing them to adopt new remote learning initiatives and revealing the technological shortcomings that campuses faced. At the same time, it opened opportunities. During the pandemic, Carnegie Mellon University used a rapidly deployed private wireless solution to power live video streams on high definition came...

Current guidance has laid out the cybersecurity priorities that federal agencies should adhere to for the upcoming fiscal year 2024 budget cycle. Civilian agencies will need to focus on making investments within the three cyber investment priority areas: Strengthening the Foundations of Our Digitally-Enabled Future, Deepening Cross-Sector Collaboration in Defense of Critical Infrastructure, and Improving the Defense and Resilience of Governmen...

Some recent high-profile vulnerabilities, such as Log4Shell, left many AppSec teams wondering, “Do I have vulnerable open source code in any of my apps?” Many were unsure, which illustrated perfectly the need for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), increasingly a must-have for those who build and use modern applications. Developers source most of the code in their applications from the open source community and other vendors to fo...

Unmanned Maritime Systems Technology USA Conference September 28-29, 2022 Arlington, Virginia http://www.umst-usa.com/govevents The US is now committed to delivering a hybrid fleet that will be necessary for the Navy to meet emerging security concerns and compete and win in an era of great power competition by expanding and developing a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned undersea vehicles (UUV), and unmanned surface vessels (USV...

AI in Government is excited to host Raquel Morgan, Director, IT & Business Strategy and Bassel Haidar, AI/ML Practice Lead at Guidehouse presenting ‘Advancing AI adoption in the Federal Government’ on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 from 12 PM - 1 PM ET! Artificial Intelligence is a useful tool that Federal agencies are using to increase efficiency and advance their missions. Over the last several years, we have seen the use of A...

No one is safe from a cyber attack. When breaches happen, the implications are often costly and long-lasting. While it’s virtually impossible to prevent a cyber breach, organizations can take proactive steps to mitigate risk. Prevention doesn’t necessarily start at the top, and everyone plays a role in protecting their organization’s sensitive data and information.Join us online Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT to...

In May 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 on improving government cybersecurity. The order required that all federal agencies develop a plan to implement zero trust architectures for their IT systems, and set aggressive timelines for achieving this goal by 2024. The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines zero trust as “an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based...

Data comes from many sources, data definitions, variations in data, different systems, and from many users. It is important to gather and identify data from a multitude of sources to explore data patterns and data trends to be used for forecasting, planning, future strategies, innovation, research, and others that are not affected by fluctuations, repeated sequencing over fixed periods of time, unexplained random variances, and much more. Ever...

Modernization is integral in the development of the Federal workforce as organizations fight to keep up with the private sector. Organizations and agencies need to begin to adopt more cutting edge technologies, such as automation of workflow processes, in order to be more forward-thinking and competitive. In order to fully reach a new potential within our Federal workforce, agencies need to center the implementation process as their goal. This...