The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), the government-wide plan to secure cloud products and services, is almost a decade old. It is still evolving, however. Early in 2021, the House of Representative passed a bill that would have codified a number of its provisions into law, standardizing its processes for agencies to on-ramp cloud computing technologies. To date, the Senate has not acted on the bill. At the same tim...

Like commercial industry, federal agencies see data as the lifeblood of their operations. Inconsistent access to that critical asset can dull agency missions. A unified, cohesive data fabric that can weave in all types of data from all locations, operations and applications is growing more critical.Having an edge-to-core-to-cloud approach to data management increases access and sharing. In turn, those access and sharing capabilities allow grea...

New, exciting, transformative technologies are emerging that have the potential to reshape how government fulfills its mission. Mass telework and communication tools, and the dynamic infrastructure like cloud and software-defined networks that support those tools, are making it possible for federal agencies to work in new ways. At the same time, advances in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and big data collection a...

New York’s Current and Future Education in a Post COVID 19 EraCity & State's 2021 Virtual Education in New York event will take what we have done for years with our in-person event and transform the program with new situations that have come out of COVID 19. It will offer industry executives, public sector leaders and academics the opportunity to share ideas and debate over critical issues such as remote learning, standardized testin...

Across the government, agencies rely on new technology to provide services that meet the evolving expectations of both their workforce and the broader public. With projects becoming more cooperative at an ever increasing pace, organizations require content platforms that maintains pace with the speed of today's work. Agencies are attempting to keep up by using a patchwork of legacy content systems and modern tools to strike the balance between...

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...

Celebrating the Most Powerful People in BrooklynCity & State's must-read list of the most powerful people in New York City has been a long standing institution in New York. This August, we are bringing our Power 100 List to Brooklyn! The August 9th issue will debut at a special webinar gathering top brass from government, advocacy, academia, media, business and beyond for a webinar you do not want to miss.

Digital transformation is a holistic re-imagining of how companies, governments and organizations use technology, people and processes to deliver services or perform their mission. Through digital transformation, federal agencies look to deliver the same kinds of business or customer-focused digital experiences that are common in the commercial arena. The federal sector has been pursuing digital transformation for years through various avenues...

As the DoD and Federal agencies go all in on enabling all-domain collaboration, a Zero Trust approach to the secure access and transfer of data and files at mission speed across segmented/isolated networks needs to be a central part of the strategy. By deploying Raise the Bar-compliant Cross Domain Solutions, agencies can reduce risk, enable efficient MPE collaboration, decrease costs and infrastructure and ultimately, ensure mission continuit...

The proliferation of internet-of-things sensors and an increasingly mobile workforce are pushing essential IT operations ever farther from the data center. Government employees and military personnel increasingly need robust capabilities in the field, and decision-makers need fast access to data analytics. All those factors are driving agencies' interest in computing that happens at the network edge.By placing compute power and analytics close...