THE INTERSECTION OF DEFENSE IT AND DEFENSE READINESS IT is essential to readiness. Cloud, network modernization, analytics, mobility, and related technologies are reshaping how the military services and supporting agencies manage core operations and deliver mission-critical services. These technologies also provide an opportunity to reengineer those operations and services to create a much more agile and responsive IT environment—one tha...

As geopolitical power shifts around the globe, the 5th Annual Defense One Summit will gather top military, foreign-policy, and intelligence leaders to discuss ideas and concerns about the future of American and global security. Topics that will be covered at the event include: The Air Force’s New Approach to Space Politics of National Security Distributed Firepower is Changing Maritime Warfare The CIA Looks to AI & Information Warfar...

Blockchain technology could be a game-changer for government cybersecurity. This distributed ledger system, which first gained prominence for enabling the digital currency Bitcoin, has the potential to help agencies address long-standing cyber gaps in key areas of their operations and services. If anything could hold blockchain back, it is the assumption that its potential is limited to financial transactions. The technology made Bitcoin feasi...

BUILDING NEW CAPABILITIES FOR CYBERSECURITY In phase three, CDM will provide agencies with the tools for protecting the boundaries—network, physical and virtual—and for planning for and responding cyber incidents. The third phase also will address requirements for managing the full cybersecurity lifecycle. Register for this event and hear cyber experts from across government discuss tools and tactics for implementing CDM and for ma...

With the new administration, federal agencies are under intense pressure to modernize or replace outdated, inefficient legacy systems and take a more innovative, cost-effective approach to delivering IT services. To be effective—to bring the gains in performance and efficiency that the administration is seeking—modernization efforts must address two key factors: the underlying network infrastructure and the associated digital proce...

Discovery & Innovation in Government IT Join us this Thursday — October 19th at the Hilton McLean, Tysons Corner for the GCN dig IT Awards and celebrate with us as we announce the winners of dig IT categories and recognize their outstanding achievements. Meet all the dig IT Award finalists, WT Industry Innovators Finalists, and Rising Stars, connect with newcomers, enjoy dinner with friends, and strengthen client relationships as we...

Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!™) is rocking on to bring our unique brand of unbiased developer training to sunny southern California. With our host hotel situated just down the street from Disneyland, developers, software architects, engineers, and designers can code by day, and visit the Magic Kingdom by night. Seek out our expert speakers to get your toughest questions answered; soak in best practices from industry leaders and peers alik...

Strategies for Securing Digital Government Identity and access management is the linchpin of digital government. Whether interacting with internal employees or external constituents, federal agencies need the ability to create a trusted digital relationship—ensuring that interactions are secure, privacy is protected, and the user experience is seamless. It's a complex undertaking, because of the complexity of the federal IT environment,...

Modernization is no longer an option. As part of its effort to drive innovation and technological advancement, the Trump administration has established the Office of American Innovation, which will bring together the best ideas from the public and private sectors. One of its top priorities is to improve government operations and services—and IT is a key part of that. This event will bring together thought-leaders from government and indu...

HHS IT Priorities and Possibilities The Department of Health and Human Services spends three times more money on IT—a projected $14B in fiscal 2017—than any other civilian department, according to the federal IT Dashboard. And while many agencies are likely to see cuts in the coming year, HHS IT spending is expected to hold nearly steady at $13.8B. But HHS is not merely treading water. Nearly a third of its IT budget goes to major...