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Embrace IT Modernization Without Creating Cybersecurity Risks

IT modernization alone won't fix your cybersecurity issues, but implemented correctly can make a huge difference.

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5 Recommendations for Meeting NARA’s Vision of a Digital Future

Meeting the 2022 mandate will having agencies thinking retention policies, storage space and IT investments.

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Advancing Threats Necessitate New Approach to Defense Technology Acquisition

Collaboration is one way to develop an edge over competitors.

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How Agencies Should Prep for Artificial Intelligence

Here are the opportunities and requirements for success.

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Rapid Prototyping to Improve Government Systems

Two former U.S. Digital Service staffers on their approach to iterative design and software development.

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DARPA Wants You to Brainstorm New Warfighting Ideas

The agency wants to find the next great warfighting idea, no matter how crazy or nontraditional it might seem.

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How to Drive Federal IT Performance Using Customer Experience

Federal employees have a customer story too, and federal CIOs and IT need to listen to them.

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How to Connect Cyber Investment to Outcomes

When security pros talk to executives, they need to be ready to show how their investments benefit the business.

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Let’s Flip the Script on Customer Experience

Customer experience is about more than customer satisfaction.

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Security Managers and Modernization Don’t Mix…or Do They? 

The reality is that secure DevOps is still more of a meta-conversation than it is an actual implementation effort.

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How to Boost Border Security While Protecting Privacy

Artificial intelligence will be a powerful tool for border control agencies, but security must be built in at every level to protect privacy.

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It’s Time to Protect Identity Like We Protect Critical Infrastructure

Identity is crucial, but it isn't protected as such.

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NASA Soups Up Mars 2020 Robot with Hi-Def Ears and Its Own Drone

The drone's helicopter rotors must spin 10 times faster than on Earth.

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Here's How a National Cybersecurity Agency Could Work

A central authority could reduce the complexity that exists today.

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How to Transform Your Agency’s IT Now So the Future is Affordable

Here are ways to avoid long-tail operations fees for your updated set up.

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Moving Your Agency From ‘Lights On’ to IT Transformation

Keeping most IT dollars tied up in O&M leads to inefficiency in the long run.

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Data May Be The New Oil But Artificial Intelligence Is The Engine That It Fuels

Balancing benefits and risks will continue to be a challenge for federal agencies.

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Why This is the Year of Smaller, Faster Federal Data Centers

Even data centers feel the need for speed.

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The Internet of Things' Role on Battlefields and at Sea

The Army and Navy are still mapping how to bring more internet of things devices into combat domains.

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The Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation Battle. Here’s How to Turn It Around

Four steps that will help better harness American innovation.