The Biden Administration has designated climate change as a top priority alongside long-standing national security challenges such as counterterrorism and border security. Agencies must reframe how they incorporate climate factors into their strategy and planning and prepare for an uncertain future. What are the most critical intersections of climate and national security? What’s different about the challenges we face today versus 5 or 1...

As federal agencies increasingly embrace Cloud Smart policies, multi-cloud infrastructures are fast becoming a critical tool in helping to meet rapidly evolving demands of the workforce and its customers. But migrating legacy applications into multiple clouds can be complex. It requires a plan: agility, security, scalability, and the ability to ensure continuity of operations are all equally important. As agencies adopt a multi-cloud approach,...

What are the best practices for increasing the adoption of analytics across your organization? How can your agency integrate new data sources, apply new analytical techniques, and create new data consumption methods? How can a modern data analytics operation ensure efficient, productive enterprise resource planning? During this digital event, presented by Infor and produced by GovExec, we’ll discuss how public and private agencies have...

Crisis defined the first year of the decade. Transition will define the second. During Future Cities, the premier convening in local government, Route Fifty will dive deep into the recovery of cities and explore how city government has changed in the last year. During this weeklong digital event, we’ll take stock of the changes, gaps and promising solutions on the horizon.

The federal government, industry, and the critical infrastructure organizations they run face a common and unprecedented threat -- sophisticated and often crippling cyber-attacks that show no signs of slowing down. It’s a challenge complicated by a significant shortage of skilled cyber-security professionals and varying levels of organizational preparedness. This summer, lawmakers introduced the bipartisan International Cybercrime Preven...

Due to current inefficient legacy databases, the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) are forced to use outdated data to inform mission-critical decisions. They remedy this by turning to database services, which offer a high degree of reliability and security to manage the explosive growth data from both the field as well as the internet of things (IoT). Agencies have also turned to cloud services to assist them, using n...

Our “Next Normal” will be determined by the success of large-scale efforts in vaccine management, financial assistance, working safely, and more. Modern technologies have enabled all of those missions and could re-shape modern society for good. This high-powered and inspirational one-day digital summit will examine some lasting effects of this historic time period on IT modernization, the employee experience, service delivery, and...

With more cloud-based services and solutions built to support agencies with their missions, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) assures that these offerings match the government’s rigorous security and compliance requirements. In the 3rd annual GovForward™ event, FedRAMP leaders, government executives, and industry experts will convene to discuss Capitol marketplace priorities, FedRAMP’s outlook f...

Customer experience is at the heart of the relationship between people and government, and the demands have never been greater. Expectations change daily, shaped by the ever-higher levels of experience provided by people’s favorite brands and services. With the pandemic accelerating the adoption of technologies that make services faster, more intuitive, and easier to access, agencies recognize that they must keep pace to build and mainta...

As offices across the federal government continue to adopt new technologies and modernize their systems, it’s essential that when doing so, they consider how best to budget and finance their increasingly complex projects. From capital funds to congressional approval, the means and methods by which organizations procure and profit from these advancements are as plentiful as they are complex.In this next installment of our IT Modernization...