Join us for TechMentor, March 7 – 11, 2016, as we make our return to fabulous Las Vegas, NV. What sets TechMentor apart, and makes it a viable alternative to huge, first-party conferences, is the immediately usable IT education, providing the tools you need today, while preparing you for tomorrow. Zero marketing-speak, a strong emphasis on doing more with the technology you already own, and solid coverage of what’s just around the...

Federal agencies have gotten the message loud and clear: They need to raise the bar on the quality of digital services offered to the public. Citizens are used to the innovative and engaging services found in retail, banking, and social media. When they turn to government websites, they expect more of the same. According to a survey from Accenture Public Services, nearly half of citizens today handle most of their government interactions digit...

A number of high-profile data breaches in 2015 have made cybersecurity a top priority in the federal government. But the cyber threat has been growing steadily in recent years, even as agencies have stepped up their efforts to combat it through new and better technologies, policies, and management strategies. For example, according to the latest FISMA Compliance Report from the Office of Management and Budget, federal agencies reported more th...

Register now to attend the Network-Centric Warfare: Next Steps Toward Achieving the Vision evening event, co-located with AFCEA WEST and hosted by Defense Systems, FCW and Technical Partner Booz Allen Hamilton. You'll hear from DOD leaders and experts as they discuss the current vision of network-centric warfare and how the department and Navy/Marine Corps are looking to achieve it. In 1998, Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski and John J. Garstk...

Managing, matching, and analyzing cultural name data continues to be one of the most challenging aspects of recognizing those masking or misrepresenting their identities. Long before the attacks on the USS Cole, Pentagon and World Trade Center, there was the 1993 shooting at the CIA Headquarters where Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani militant, killed two and wounded three CIA employees. Kansi had entered the United Status under the family name Ka...

The government’s current IT trajectory is not sustainable, and DOD and other agencies must modernize their systems to make use of new data available to them, handle current and future security threats and maximize their returns on IT investments. The government spends about 80 percent of its $80-plus billion IT budget on legacy systems, leaving precious few resources available to modernize systems and test, develop and keep pace with ne...

Companies looking to do IT business with the federal government need to understand how to do business with the General Services Administration’s Office of Integrated Technology Services. ITS manages some of the most important governmentwide acquisition contracts in the federal market. That includes IT Schedule 70, which accounts for more than $14 billion in annual sales of products and services; the highly-anticipated, Enterprise Infrast...

All the data in the world is useless if you can’t manage it.With as many as 200 billion internet-connected sensors and devices expected by 2020, we’re fast approaching a world of big data – the Internet of Everything – but making the most of it requires advances in data governance.For federal agencies, this explosion of data represents both a major challenge and opportunity: How can they ensure the availability, usabil...

You're invited to BMC Exchange Federal 2016 in Washington, DC on February 2nd. Come and explore the latest technology trends from mainframe, to cloud, to mobile. Hear from Public Sector IT professionals as they lead deep dive BMC product and solution discussion sessions. Attend this event to: Hear the latest technology trends in top-tier keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities Evaluate products and services from BMC and othe...

The federal IT enterprise is changing. Under pressure to improve the agility and scalability of IT services, federal agencies are looking to take a new approach to their enterprise infrastructure. They need the ability to rapidly provision resources—compute, storage, networking, software—to meet constantly shifting workload demands driven by cloud, mobility, big data, and related solutions. The traditional approach of dedicating re...