Federal networks are straining under demands posed by increased use of mobile devices, teleworking and alternative schedules, bandwidth-hungry applications, video traffic, cyber risks, and exploding data volumes. Many agencies have invested in modernizing the desktop, compute and storage domains of their IT infrastructures. But they nevertheless find themselves saddled with outdated legacy networking environments comprised of single-function a...

Proactive Approaches For Getting Ahead of Cyber Risk Defense and federal networks continue to be successfully attacked, often via cybersecurity blind spots that enable hackers and malware to gain entry to data. These blind spots consist of aging software and hardware assets that reside on federal networks and desktops that are end-of-life (EOL), not approved, or not properly configured. Illustrating the scale of the problem, Federal CIO Tony S...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud & data center subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud & Data Center Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud & Data Center Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. Wor...

This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating in panels discussing hot-button topics in the area of big data and analytics.Also included is the MITRE-ATARC Big Data Collaboration Symposium features discussion and white-boarding between government and industry subject matter experts in a small-group setting. The outcomes of these sessions will be compiled in a White...

Join MITRE and the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center on November 17 at the MITRE campus in McLean, VA for a morning of brainstorming and whiteboarding on Internet of Things topics of importance to the Federal Government. The MITRE-ATARC Internet of Things Collaboration Symposium will features IoT subject matter experts from government, academia and private industry. The outcomes of these interactive sessions will be compiled in a Wh...

In today’s ever-changing Federal environment, agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on the use of software applications in mission-critical projects. As IT environments become more complex with the advent of cloud services, virtualization and mobile devices, the challenge of managing and optimizing application performance is also becoming more complex. How can agencies overcome these software application challenges? The use of Appli...

The ATARC Federal Mobile Computing Summit will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. This educational one-day symposium will feature subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating discussing the latest tools and trends in mobility. (Mobile Summit Agenda) The MITRE-ATARC Mobile Symposium will discuss and white-board various mobile "challenge areas” and produce a White Pap...

The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Schwartz, Chief Information Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will serve as the Government Chair of this educational, one-day symposium featuring government speakers and panels examining the practice of DevOps - and the complementa...

Across the Department of Defense, Application Rationalization is playing a big role in helping enterprises improve their cybersecurity postures, lower IT costs, and streamline IT operating environments. Moreover, Application Rationalization is a key technical prerequisite for numerous IT modernization and standardization initiatives under way across the DoD. For example, Application Rationalization is a critical technical component of DoD...

This educational one-day symposium will feature cloud computing subject matter experts from the Federal government and academia participating on panels. (Cloud Summit Agenda)The MITRE-ATARC Cloud Symposium will discuss and white-board various cloud "challenge areas” and produce a White Paper with recommendations for the Federal government. The following challenge areas will be discussed: 1. DevOps vs NoOps: Managing Public Clouds2. Secur...