This October, Government Executive will celebrate Teddy Award winners through a special series of virtual events. Winners will be unveiled each day from October 6-8, 2020. Throughout the week, we'll be unveiling the winners in each category, as well as interviews and presentations from those federal and private sector leaders, including from the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and more! Details about announcemen...

For most agencies, the fall will mean a mixed bag of open offices and remote workforce. Agencies spun up solutions quickly for expanding and protecting networks and data, and now they are planning for supporting both approaches.What has worked for agencies with managed services and what is available to help as employees return to offices? Can collaboration tools substitute for face-to-face discussion? Are there scalable solutions that allow ag...

Federal government agencies and the technology teams working to support them today are facing increasing demands and unprecedented challenges. A top priority for them is cultivating the best possible digital workforce to ensure they are fully prepared to meet these challenges. The continuing retirement of a significant number of experienced tech workers, however, calls for investment in new approaches to talent recruitment, training, and manag...

Transforming the IT infrastructure for an agency is a complicated task that requires coordinated and effective decision making, buy-in from key executives and detailed data and security strategies -- not to mention funding for new technology or the move to managed services. This FCW Summit will discuss new policies and guidance that will govern these changes. In addition, agencies that are well into their modernization journey will share lesso...

As DoD, federal agencies and law enforcement work to fill a shortage in key specialties, there is a premium on using the expertise at the highest level. Security analysts often spend too much time collecting and collating data across different public and private sources. Their time would be much better spent analyzing the real threats so they can respond rapidly and effectively. With Forcepoint Data Analyzer, agencies can employ virtual data w...

Global supply chains are being pushed to the limit in the face of unprecedented disruption, as foreign adversaries, hackers, and criminals seek to steal, compromise and destroy sensitive information. Cyber criminals are targeting government and industry via contractors and suppliers at all tiers of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain. The National Defense Authorization Act also prompts a call-to-action to protect t...

Agency transformation is not a one-size-fits-all process. State and local governments across the country face unique challenges and disparate needs in the journey to become more efficient, yet there is shared DNA in any successful transformation blueprint: a clear roadmap, buy-in from leadership, solutions that scale, well-trained talent, and consistent communication channels, to name a few. In all cases, a strategic use of technology is imper...

The newly-established Space Force is pulling in space-based components from across the Army, Navy, and Air Force and integrating capabilities from those services. To military leaders, that means space is now considered to be a war-fighting domain, as China and Russia move swiftly to contest the U.S. presence above. Learn how Space Force is moving ahead with those plans, and new initiatives in Low Earth Orbit sensing, jamming, and next-generati...

Much as technology is now woven into virtually every aspect of government, cybersecurity must now be an essential element of every federal IT system and initiative. From continuous monitoring of agency systems to securing the supply chain to ensuring military superiority in the electronic domain, cyber has become both critical and ubiquitous. The list of 2020 Federal 100 winners illustrates both the vast range and vital importance of today's c...

As Zero-Trust becomes a bigger part of government agencies’ cybersecurity portfolio, technologists are looking for a roadmap on how to implement this often complicated process. Zero-Trust is an operating principle and philosophy created as a way to overcome the inadequacy of not only a network perimeter-based approach to cybersecurity but also horizontally ‘flat’ access within a network. Adoption of Zero -Trust is a process,...