State and local public health organizations face a unique challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic in balancing the need to maintain critical services for their patients or clients while maintaining social distancing, all while state budgets are being dramatically reduced. It’s a perfect storm of challenges to meet increased needs with reduced, highly stressed, and often limited staff and resources. With requirements as varied as mental ho...

Experts across the government and business communities discuss the future of 5G -- the opportunities it presents, the challenges to implementation, the controversies taking shape, and the myths in need of busting.

Join Decision Lens on Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 2 pm ET for the live webcast "Improve Mid-Year Review Reporting – An Insider's View", where Lt. Col Ben Milarch (Inspector General, USAF) will share best practices in presenting midyear review data to leadership. As someone who has worked both on the presenting side and the leadership side, his breadth of experience will help you learn what leadership is looking for in midyear review repor...

As the President embarks on the crucial first 100 days of his term, what are the Administration’s priorities across management, tech, defense, and intergovernmental affairs? In this unique week-long series, public sector’s most trusted media brands join forces for high level interviews and expert analysis around what’s next. Hear from Government Executive, Nextgov, Defense One, and Route Fifty about the Administration’s...

Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, transforming internal business processes to make federal employees more effective and efficient, or improving the citizen experience on federal websites, digital government aims to enable better government. New tools and technologies are an essential part of these efforts, but the true transformation takes place in the analog world -- rethinking business processes, changing the workplace cultur...

The last twelve months will go down in history as one of the most precarious years on record when it comes to public safety scheduling, crisis management and reporting. Hear directly from Danbury, Connecticut’s Deputy Fire Chief and staffing system administrator on how the city’s police and fire departments leverage automated scheduling technology to efficiently staff their workforce and to report and capture costs during protests,...

Federal agencies took swift and decisive action at the onset of COVID-19 to protect the health of their workers. They maximized remote work, accommodated flexible schedules, and supplied the IT workers needed to do their jobs from home. Now, preliminary data suggests productivity is up in a work-from-home environment. What impact will that data have on agency leaders considering the possibility of hybrid workplace post-pandemic? This digital...

A 2020 study found that local governments are more likely to be targeted by ransomware attacks than any other type of organization, and the large-scale shift to telework during the pandemic has only expanded that attack surface. Employee education and other defenses can reduce the risks, but public sector organizations must be prepared to respond and recover when ransomware makes it onto critical systems. In this webcast, GCN Editor-in-Chief T...

The Defense Information Systems Agency is an essential hub for DOD IT, with a staff of more than 9,000 and an annual budget approaching $10 billion. With new leadership coming in for both DISA and the government as a whole, 2021 looks to be a busy year of executing key existing initiatives and setting new priorities for the agency. In this editorial roundtable webcast, FCW will explore DISA’s roadmap for milCloud 2.0, Defense Enclave Ser...

The federal government has been working to update its policies, architectures and frameworks around digital identity for some time. OMB revised its Identity Credential and Access Management guide in May of 2019 and that National Institute for Standards and Technology has been working on an updated version of its guidance on security and privacy controls for information systems. Then, the pandemic hit, and all programs went into overdrive as ag...