Building a truly digital government has never been more important or necessary, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. But are federal, state and local entities prepared to handle the rapid pace at which employees and citizens need to utilize government’s digital services? Transforming everything from design to user experiences to digital communications is vital for keeping government's mission on track. At this digital summit, Ne...

Salesforce Government Cloud Plus enables government customers to lower overall cost, rapidly customize as needed, accelerate time to value, and scale the impact of their mission and charter. Partnering with AWS Gov Cloud further accelerates the ability to deliver the required security and compliance controls to protect the most sensitive, unclassified data. Through this partnership, the Government Cloud Plus inherits AWS GovCloud’s alrea...

Multi-mission capabilities, inherent to unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs), expand operational flexibility. A new effort to connect multi-mission capabilities to tactical missile systems is just one example of current UAV innovations. This digital event will explore concepts of the future, from operations and loitering drones to ISR and tactical strike capabilities. We’ll investigate ethical challenges surrounding unmanned autonomous ve...

In today’s digital world, government’s networks face not only increased strain and complexity on bandwidth, but also cybersecurity risks. New policies such as CISA’s TIC 3.0 provide guidance on how to address these risks, including shifting the approach from securing a single network boundary to a distributed architecture. However, many agencies’ legacy security architectures remain focused on securing the data center,...

As government agencies pursue digital transformation, from cloud adoption to the embrace of the Internet of Things, data security has become increasingly complex, moving beyond the network perimeter to the cloud. With emerging technologies such as quantum computing on the horizon, this complexity will only increase. In an era when the security perimeter is dissolving, how can government agencies ensure their critical data is secure - no matter...

The most important element in the battlefield of the future won’t be rockets, bullets, or robots, but data, the ability to collect it at any point and send it precisely to where it needs to be. The shareability of data is at the heart of the U.S. military’s next-generation Multi-Domain Operations concept, a vision of the future in which every tool in the U.S. arsenal, in the land, air, sea, space and cyberspace, can communicate ins...

To protect critical government data and maintain a secure cyber posture, it is imperative to verify the identity of all parties attempting access. Alongside zero trust, identity and access management policies--coupled with emerging technologies’ abilities to combat threats--have shifted the paradigm of identity governance. This digital event will explore the security strategies and access policies that state and local government agencies...

Fending off cyber threats and preserving cybersecurity has never been more challenging. Among federal, state and local executives, cybersecurity consistently tops the list of concerns that keep them up at night. Attack surfaces are larger; the universe of bad actors seeking to breach security is expanding; techniques for exploiting vulnerabilities are more sophisticated; and in a digitally transformed environment, the stakes are higher, as wel...

Public health officials are on the front lines of the coronavirus response: but how are their tools, policies, and practices keeping up? How are state and local leaders innovating to increase public healthcare capacity and care for patients and quarantine workers alike? This Town Hall will explore the people and technology behind the most dextrous response plans, and lessons learned from state and local responses so far. Attendees will leave...

Now months into the coronavirus pandemic, state and local governments across the country have implemented countless operational response and recovery plans, seeing varying degrees of success in the new normal of telework, virtual meetings, disrupted workflow, and heightened security concerns. During these times of unprecedented challenges, public leaders understand the need for agency resilience. In order to weather future disruptions, pandemi...