The Department of Energy (DOE) rolled out a modern, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform powered by Workday, replacing a legacy, siloed environment using a repeatable model for agency HCM modernization governmentwide. It’s the first cabinet-level agency to bring its core human resources (HR) systems into a FedRAMP-authorized cloud – Workday Government Cloud. […]
A cyber intrusion discovered in 2020 pushed Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to accelerate its shift to a zero trust cybersecurity architecture and adopt cloud-delivered security services from Zscaler, the lab’s top security official said Tuesday. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Anish Patel, director of federal sales at Cloudflare, to discuss why shadow AI is often a workforce signal rather than rebellion; what an AI-ready security posture looks like across human, prompt, and agentic layers; and more. […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is accelerating its transition to a zero trust architecture, replacing what one agency official described as a “flat” network environment that posed a “huge security vulnerability.” […]
As federal agencies push artificial intelligence (AI) beyond pilots, scaling the technology requires a hard look at existing workflows – particularly whether they are “elastic” or “inelastic” – and a willingness to redesign how humans and machines work together, said Dan Tadross, head of public sector at Scale AI. […]
On March 3, join leaders from across government, educational institutions, and industry for the 2026 Zscaler Public Sector Summit at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. to explore how Zero Trust Everywhere and AI-driven security approaches protect critical systems, safeguard sensitive data, and empower agencies to maintain trust in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. […]
Attackers don’t need a quantum computer to start winning with quantum. They just need time. That premise – that adversaries can siphon encrypted data today and hold it until tomorrow’s decryption becomes possible – framed the conversation in “Cybersecurity in Focus: Acting Today Against Tomorrow’s Threat,” a Red Hat Government Symposium session. […]
A new era of government operations is taking shape – one powered by artificial intelligence (AI). What was once experimental is now transformational, as agencies harness AI to reimagine workflows, accelerate decision-making, and meet rising mission demands. […]
“We are drowning in data, but we are starved for knowledge,” Zhong Wang, a computational biologist and staff scientist at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), said recently, paraphrasing Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner. […]
CGI Federal said on Feb. 24 that it won a contract with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand on existing work with the agency aimed at modernizing its Compass financial management platform. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Matt Marsden, senior director of technical solutions – federal at Palo Alto Networks, to discuss how platformization enables greater operational effectiveness, why crypto-agility matters now, and the practical steps agency leaders can take today to build an identity-aware, AI-ready, and quantum-resistant future. […]
Federal agencies are moving quickly from artificial intelligence (AI) experimentation to operational deployments, but the organizations seeing real returns are treating AI as a workforce and change management effort as much as a technology upgrade, according to Jim Kelly, vice president of federal sales at Google Public Sector. […]
Mission partner environments (MPEs) are moving from static, stove-piped networks to dynamic, warfighting fabrics that deliver seamless interoperability – enabling the U.S. and allied partners to share data securely and act on it at operational speed. […]
Oracle Corp. said on Feb. 11 that it will help the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in consolidating and migrating on-premise workloads to the cloud. […]
As agencies race to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) into production, many are confronting the same challenge: The bigger and more “all-in-one” the model gets, the harder it becomes to predict outcomes, explain decisions, and demonstrate accountability. […]
The push to modernize government IT is colliding with a hard reality: The most important data isn’t always generated where networks are strong, cloud connectivity is reliable, or power and cooling are abundant. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is accelerating long-planned technology upgrades to meet today’s air traffic realities: more flights, new entrants like drones, and rising expectations for resiliency after recent system and workforce impacts. Ongoing efforts to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS) and the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system underscore the urgency. […]
Industry groups are urging congressional leaders to quickly reauthorize the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, whose authority lapsed on Sept. 30, 2025. […]
Municipal governments are under continued pressure to save money while delivering more and better services, noted John Dvorak, chief technology officer for public sector at Red Hat, during the recent Red Hat Government Symposium. […]
After departing the Pentagon late last year, where she served as acting chief information officer (CIO) at the Department of Defense (DOD), Katie Arrington has taken a new role as chief information officer at quantum computing company IonQ. […]
As missile threats evolve and the Arctic grows more accessible, defense leaders are rethinking what it takes to protect the homeland in the High North. Speaking on a recent Red Hat Government Symposium panel, “Missile Defense in the Digital Age,” experts underscored that the next generation of missile defense will depend on artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data, resilient networks, and close cooperation among allies. […]
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has been awarded a $131 million task order under the U.S. Air Force’s Base Infrastructure Modernization contract, which totals $8.75 billion and aims to create a unified and secure network environment across all Air Force and U.S. Space Force bases around the world. […]
At the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), modeling and simulation (M&S) isn’t an academic exercise; it’s a path to better, faster, safer decisions in real-world situations. By building shared digital twins, running batches of what-if tests, and letting operators and engineers adjust the same model together, NPS teams pull months and years out of planning and reduce risk before anyone touches a flight line or flips a switch on an installation. […]
U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are recalibrating from two decades of counterterrorism toward great power competition, and they’re doing it at a tempo that demands faster decisions, smarter logistics, and a more holistic approach to human performance. […]
UL Solutions – known up until 2012 as Underwriters Laboratories – has withdrawn as the lead administrator for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) U.S. Cyber Trust Mark Program. […]
As agencies enter 2026, executives from some of the federal government’s top IT and service vendors predict that federal technology success will hinge less on adopting new tools and more on operational foundations. […]
As 2025 comes to a close, MeriTalk is looking back on a consequential year for federal IT marked by leadership changes, sweeping policy shifts, and workforce disruption. […]
In a recent MeriTalk webinar, experts warned that supply chain attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, as nation-state actors weaponize artificial intelligence (AI) to move faster across the software supply chain. FSIs need to rethink how they apply zero trust and data security to keep pace, they advised. […]
Elastic, a leading Search AI company, announced Tuesday a new partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop a Security Information and Event Management as a Service (SIEMaaS) platform for federal agencies. […]
For federal agencies and industry partners, NVIDIA’s GTC DC conference felt less like a standard tech gathering and more like a strategic planning session for the next era of artificial intelligence (AI). Sessions touched every part of the federal AI landscape: supercomputing, infrastructure, mission delivery, and policy, providing a clear picture of where government capabilities are headed. […]