At the 2019 AFCEA WEST conference, Naval, Marine and Coast Guard leadership, government officials, and industry representatives gathered to discuss challenges and potential solutions that can ensure the Navy’s ongoing…
We all know federal agencies generate petabytes of data and have the capacity to store that data indefinitely on devices, in data centers, and in the cloud. But what’s the…
Breaking the mold for how federal agencies operate can be considered a tall order. With legacy systems in place that have dominated procedure for decades, it’s difficult to implement change,…
Recently, we published a letter from Jay Olsen, Director for Digital Services at CSRA, inviting federal IT leaders to learn more about DevOps. In the letter he laid out a…
In recent months, I’ve waxed, at times, a bit philosophical about how federal government agencies can drive IT modernization efforts in an era of uncertainty and tight budgets. However, it…
Dear Federal CIOs, It’s time to rethink your IT strategy. I know your development and operations teams have co-existed very nicely for nearly half a century working in parallel and…
DevOps is a culture, as much as it is a philosophy, as much as it is a method of continuous improvement in software applications. It may be the first manifestation…
Consolidation, optimization, and agility are the three hottest topics in IT this summer, especially for federal CIOs. While the process of moving away from legacy systems and modernizing IT infrastructure…
This week in our roundup of federal government IT news, government agencies are still under attack and IT is not the problem; the VA’s CIO, LaVerne Council pledges to change…
The speed of innovation can be daunting. Just as daunting is the understanding that innovation will happen no matter what—we must keep up, or we will absolutely fall behind. In…