Joel Jackson, senior director of emerging product sales for Red Hat’s North America public sector group, said cloud, microservices and automation are among the modern software design’s building blocks that could reinforce federal information technology modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Monday.
Read More »Perspecta Labs’ Eric Jung on Ways to Ensure Gov’t Data Security on Commercial Networks
Eric Jung, commercial solutions for classified program director at Perspecta Labs, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that there are three approaches agencies can implement to ensure the security of government data on commercial networks and one is through streamlined CSfC deployment of mobile applications.
Read More »T-Rex Solutions’ Jason Keplinger on Role of Policy, Program, Tech in Federal IT Modernization
Jason Keplinger, chief technology officer at information technology services contractor T-Rex Solutions, told FedScoop in a video interview posted Wednesday that meaningful progress has been made when it comes to federal IT modernization driven by policy, program and technology at enterprise level.
Read More »Intel’s Darren Pulsipher: Multicloud Strategy Could Offer Flexibility, Security Benefits to Agencies
Darren Pulsipher, enterprise solution architect at Intel’s data center group, has said federal agencies could benefit from adopting a multicloud strategy and one advantage is the flexibility that multicloud environments offer.
Read More »Raytheon’s Jane Chappell: Satellite Ground Stations, Automated Tech Can Support Intell Missions
Jane Chappell, vice president of global intelligence solutions at Raytheon, has said ground stations and automated technologies could help the U.S. military and intelligence community utilize small and large satellites, Breaking Defense reported Monday.
Read More »TeraThink’s Laurence Hart: Automation Can Help Improve Records Management
Laurence Hart, a director at information technology and management consulting company TeraThink, said automating the recordskeeping process could help government agencies manage data, access to information and governance policies.
Read More »UiPath’s Jim Walker: Feds Continue to Leverage Robotic Process Automation for Business Ops
Jim Walker, director of public sector marketing at UiPath, said the federal government increased its use of robotic process automation tools in 2018 and the growth may continue with more agencies looking at the technology to improve operations.
Read More »Parasoft’s New Division Seeks to Help Agencies Meet Software Testing Needs
Parasoft has launched a new division to help federal, local and state agencies address their software testing requirements. The company said Tuesday Larry Johnsen, vice president of Mil/Aero and government solutions at Parasoft, will lead the corporate division to provide strategy-based platforms and software tooling for development and testing groups to help agencies address software development initiatives around security, DevOps and Agile methods.
Read More »Booz Allen Execs on Change Management Misconceptions in Federal IT Modernization
Three Booz Allen Hamilton executives said there are five myths about change management in government information technology modernization and the first notion that should be debunked is that change management should concentrate on end users. “Successful change management requires a whole cultural change that goes beyond end users to encompass the entire stakeholder community – from your delivery teams and business units to your end user community,” Booz Allen’s Juli Dixon, Ben Marglin and Andrew Mason wrote in an FCW article published Thursday.
Read More »Booz Allen’s Shannon Fitzgerald on Digital Tools That Could Help Agencies Improve Citizen Experience
Shannon Fitzgerald, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and head of the company’s citizen services business, said top commercial brands are adopting digital platforms and services that could be used by federal agencies to improve customer experience. Fitzgerald wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday that agencies seeking to streamline user experience should advance the use of chatbots and redesign their websites to make it easier for citizens to find the information they need.
Fortinet Federal’s Bob Fortna: Agencies Should Establish Security Protocols to Enable Digital Transformation
Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s federal business, said agencies seeking to advance digital transformation should build up cybersecurity by implementing security protocols meant to safeguard connected physical platforms from threat actors. “This includes segmenting physical devices connected to an IP network, baselining and whitelisting behaviors and setting alerts and quarantines that are automatically triggered when behaviors change,” Fortna wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday.
Read More »Crowe Unveils New Lease Management Platform
Crowe is offering a new platform designed to help public sector users perform tracking, accounting and reporting of government-compliant leases in a streamlined approach.
Read More »DARPA Sets 10 R&D Areas to Fund in New Small Business Programs
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the research areas where the agency wants to partner with small businesses in 2019 under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, NextGov reported Monday.
Read More »Virginia Contracting Activity Issues RFI on Knowledge Mgmt Tech Support for Intell Agencies
The Virginia Contracting Activity has issued a request for information on potential sources that could meet the Defense Intelligence Agency’s requirements to improve the intelligence community’s knowledge management platform. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says VACA looks for potential contractors that could deploy the Intelligence Community Knowledge Management Tool across multiple networks worldwide and deliver new capabilities to users with a focus on automating analytic workflows.
SAIC Aims to Accelerate Tech Deployment Through ‘Innovation Factory’; Charles Onstott Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. has formed a new organization that allows teams of information technology professionals to speed up the development of new platforms and deploy the product in a matter of days or hours, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Launched in October 2018, SAIC’s Innovation Factory aims to help IT teams meet contract requirements, compete on potential contracts and facilitate product experimentation.
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