Technology experts at the Department of Labor, U.S. Air Force, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and software provider Nutanix are emphasizing that government agencies should focus on implementing simple, flexible, and agile approaches to their artificial intelligence (AI) integrations. […]
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are confronting a critical inflection point in logistics strategy, where traditional approaches no longer align with emerging geopolitical challenges. The shift from counterterrorism to near-peer competition with countries like with China and Russia demands a reimagining of support capabilities in contested environments, where adversarial or inherent conditions threaten to disrupt continued operations. […]
Government’s approach to AI tech is once again wide open to endless possibilities with the new administration, and that’s why you need to meet up with us at Tech Tonic on March 13 at Morton’s in D.C. from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to figure out the road forward. […]
In a recent interview with MeriTalk, Bryan Thomas, vice president of U.S. public sector at Pure Storage, shares practical and actionable strategies to help agencies overcome obstacles and utilize their data for impactful mission outcomes. […]
Legacy privileged access management (PAM) solutions, rooted in a perimeter-centric security model, can become security liabilities for Federal agencies. In an interview with MeriTalk, James Scobey, chief information security officer (CISO), Keeper Security, discussed his recent move to Keeper from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal agencies’ progress toward zero trust security architectures, and why modern PAM solutions are a foundational element of zero trust. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with David Smith, Senior Director, Americas Public Sector, and Gary Pentecost, Senior Director Public Sector Account Technical Strategy, from Citrix, which provides mission-critical software solutions, to discuss what is needed to enable hybrid multi-cloud in the Federal environment. […]
As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) modernize software to meet increasingly complex missions, a collaborative development model – powered by open-source technologies and agile methodologies – speeds the development process. In a recent interview with MeriTalk, Michael Hardee, chief architect for law enforcement and justice at Red Hat, discusses how a container-first and cloud-first approach can help. […]
MeriTalk recognized 17 Federal agencies for their excellence in IT during the FITARA Awards ceremony at Tech Tonic on Thursday evening, with Federal chief information officers (CIOs) taking home awards to celebrate their success on the 18th edition of the FITARA Scorecard. […]
In the Federal government’s Cybersecurity Workforce Training Guide, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas makes clear that efforts to improve cyber defenses should focus on the people working to protect the nation from attack. His words reflect what experts call a people-first approach to defeating foreign and other cyber threats. […]
Threat actors are increasingly targeting the operational technology (OT) vital to maintaining the nation’s critical infrastructure, according to government officials and other experts. […]