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Agencies often ponder whether to apply AI to citizen interactions under the customer experience movement, or to making internal operations more efficient. But the two are connected, said Susan Wedge, managing partner for the U.S. public and federal market at IBM Consulting.
“Cross domain solutions” have long been a critical piece of securing those networks, with the technology serving as a sort of gatekeeper to keep out malware and other threats. But with agencies increasingly adopting cloud services for even classified data, the nature of the “cross-domain solutions” is evolving, too, according to John Meyer, vice president and general manager of cyber products and services at Arcfield.
XR technologies are taking hold in the federal government for training and remote assistance. But imagine this “for instance”: air traffic controllers managing the 3D airspace in three dimensions — in that reality. Discover more about what might be possible.
Look to the NASA Mars rovers, years ahead of others in embracing artificial intelligence, says Ingram Micro’s Tony Celeste. He sits down with Dell Federal’s Art Villanueva to talk about what’s possible now and why the AI/ML future is bright.
Bryna Dash, the vice president of government and corporate business at Blackboard, said agencies are recognizing how to take traditional online tools and expand them out to encompass other approaches.
The authority to operate (ATO) process--the bane of many CIOs and developers existence in the federal sector.
Most federal information technology professionals have seen hybrid networks develop over time.
The pace of technological change has impacted the lives of populations everywhere in one way or another.
John Ogren, the chief learning officer at the National Weather Service, which is a part of NOAA in the Commerce Department, said the agency uses YouTube videos, memory-jogger training and other approaches to ensure employees are ready for the coming weather season.
This is a special edition of the Sales Game Changers Podcast in partnership with Federal News Network. This show was recorded in the Federal News Network “Think Tank’, where Government and Industry go to provide the federal audience with compelling and actionable content for federal executives and the contractors looking to do business with them. This panel covers how some top technology providers have adjusted to the unique buying processes and needs of the federal government.
It’s not just during emergencies, as more and more agencies move to voice over IP (VOIP) and other technologies like instant messaging or texting that depend on the cloud and security making secure communications become even more important.
Like large agencies, small ones still have to be able to take advantage of the technologies like cloud and emerging ones like machine learning or robotics process automation to modernize their services and improve their cyber postures.
Today’s military commanders must secure mission requirements and ensure that only the authorized people have access to exactly the right data, at exactly the right time. Unisys allows armed forces leaders to leverage one solution with added benefits that require no hardware or additional infrastructure to deploy as it is entirely software based, available anytime, anywhere deployed with agility and completely transparent to the user. This allows for enormous cost savings and enhanced encryption security to share and protect information on the fly, even in times of duress.
Moving to the cloud can increase federal agencies’ ability to handle large data sets. The question is – which cloud? Which applications? How to make the change? Vendor lock-in is a concept many agencies have experienced and those agencies want to develop a strategy that puts the flexibility in their hands, not in the cloud vendor.
The adoption of a hybrid cloud model leads agencies down the path of creating an approach to security that is based on the zero trust model, where identity management helps define who has access and how that access is defined to specific data and applications.
Cloud is transforming the workplace by letting us view the concept of work in a much different manner. The tools have become smaller from smartphones to tablets, and software is running our lives. Some estimate that by 2020, 25 percent of all software will be in the cloud as-a-service.
Perhaps the first generation of managed services was ahead of its time. No more. Given the rapid maturation of cloud-hosted applications, more ubiquitous bandwidth, and the greater need to manage costs, more federal agencies are engaging with contractors for managed services.
On this episode of Innovation in Government, David Wray, the chief technologist at Micro Focus Government Solutions, said agencies could find savings quickly by consolidating contracts and/or moving to consumption based buying.
Given the edgeless nature of modern networks, and the need to limit trust and access of both external and internal users, more and more IT leaders are recognizing the need to replace yesterday's authentication and access.