The countdown is on for MeriTalk’s America 250 Powering Progress Awards – and that means it’s time to mark your calendar for Tech Tonic on May 21 at Morton’s The Steakhouse in Washington, D.C., from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Join us as we recognize this year’s honorees with an evening of connection, celebration, and conversation. […]
For federal technology leaders trying to decide when quantum computing moves from a long-range research issue to an operational priority, Yuval Boger says the answer is sooner than many agencies think. In a recent interview with MeriTalk, the QuEra executive said the U.S. government is increasingly treating quantum computing as both a national security concern and an economic competitiveness issue. […]
MeriTalk’s new Future-Ready Finance report, underwritten by Workday Government, shows many finance teams are still dealing with fragmented systems and manual workarounds that make confident decision-making much harder. MeriTalk recently sat down with Annamary Holbrook, director of federal solutions consulting at Workday Government, to discuss what the findings mean in practice. […]
A senior federal cybersecurity leader said on Tuesday that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is forcing agencies to rethink how they manage risk within zero trust architectures because machine-speed decision-making strains traditional security controls. […]
Federal finance leaders estimate they lose an average of 35 percent of their work time to outdated financial management systems, driven by manual reporting, spreadsheet version control, repetitive data entry, and error resolution. […]
Quantum computing’s promise may still sound futuristic in many corners of government, but for Eddy Zervigon, the more urgent reality is what it means for the cryptography that underpins government and enterprise networks. […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with Travis Rosiek, public sector chief technology officer at Rubrik, to discuss how cyber preparedness is changing for FSIs supporting government missions and why resilient backup and recovery capabilities are now essential to mission continuity. […]
Microsoft announced on April 2 that it is expanding its Copilot capabilities for the U.S. government, including rolling out new Analyst and Researcher agents across the Government Community Cloud (GCC). […]
Hemant Baidwan has departed as chief information security officer (CISO) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after more than 15 years at the agency. He joined Knox Systems on Monday as executive CISO. […]
Dan Arnold passed on March 5th – he was my friend. I first met Dan Arnold when we were young men – in our mid twenties. Long Island Elvis – rockahulla smile, enormous hand, and a firm shake. […]
Federal cybersecurity leaders say agencies are struggling to keep pace with the growing attack surface, with new MeriTalk research showing that discovery is outpacing agencies’ abilities to prioritize and remediate risks. […]
Department of Energy (DOE) and Dell Technologies leaders on Thursday cast the agency’s new Genesis Mission and the forthcoming Doudna supercomputer as central to a broader push to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery through artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). […]
MeriTalk recently sat down with two cybersecurity experts at Acalvio, Suril Desai, vice president of engineering, and Ralph Kahn, general manager for federal, to discuss how AI-powered cyber deception works, why it offers a preemptive defense advantage, and how it supports federal cybersecurity priorities, including zero trust and layered defense strategies. […]
The White House’s newly released national cyber strategy has received praise from industry officials, but some are also asking for more specifics on the cyber policies. […]
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. […]