ATARC Federal IT Newscast

Why does it seem that government agencies fall into the Late Majority/ Laggards category of the innovation adoption curve? Are security, bureaucracy and the culture of “we’ve done it this way forever” the primary blockers to adopting changes to operational methodologies – especially when the new way of working will yield many short and long term benefits?

Last year, President Trump established the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee via Presidential Executive Order 13885. Our nation is facing unprecedented technological challenges due to the complexity and the diverse uses of Quantum Information Science (QIS) innovations. ATARC‘s independent Quantum Initiative Advisory Board of multi-disciplinary experts is able to effectively support our policymakers by leveraging its public-private project teams focused on QIS, including National Security and Quantum, Quantum Money, Quantum Internet, Quantum Computing, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Communications, Quantum Time Measurements, Sensing, Metrology, Imaging, and IoT

Join us for a 60- minute long information-sharing event, composed of subject matter experts from government and industry that aims to educate, enlighten, and inform. This panel of subject matter experts will discuss how they’ve seen organizations adopt industry-standard best practices for IOT when it comes to managing aspects of the virus, such as drone usage for public surveillance, IOT to trace the origin of outbreaks, IOT to ensure patient compliance, work-from-home capabilities, and AI data to predict future outbreaks and track exposure.

This information-sharing event is focused on automation during the response to COVID-19 such as rapid deployment of critical care telemedicine infrastructure, critical services to businesses, and technology updates to financial systems to ensure financial support during COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged us all into an unfamiliar situation marked by profound uncertainty. Listen to this 60- minute long recording focused on digital access and service delivery in a time of social distancing. These thought leaders discuss how they are ensuring digital transformation, improving accessibility, and updating internal digital services to allow for wide information spread. See what these topic experts are doing to promote website modernization, digitization of government services and forms, and electronic signatures. Understand how you may be able to support digital acceleration to create and deliver new digital services and experiences for citizens and employees alike.

The pandemic has stretched both demands for government services and the resources federal agencies have to deliver on their mission. Agencies have been challenged to find ways to deliver more quickly, more efficiently, and with greater flexibility than ever before. In software, these are just the sorts of capabilities we hope to gain from DevOps. So if COVID-19 has tested our DevOps practices, how have federal government agencies fared so far? This panel will share lessons from the front lines of government DevOps practice. These topic experts will discuss solutions for successfully implementing DevOps methodology, tools, and techniques within Federal agencies in a time of continuous change and telework. We’ll take a moment to share notes from our agencies’ DevOps journeys — what’s working well, what we might learn from, and what we might wish we had done more of had we known the pandemic was imminent.

Now more than ever, Federal organizations are facing unprecedented circumstances that are placing high demands on their IT systems.  Yet, they are expected to remain available 24/7, compliant to security and data protection standards and prepared for cyber threats. Juggling and meeting these demands makes disaster recovery planning and data protection solutions more critical than ever. Join this panel for an in-depth IT resilience discussion focused on reducing planned AND unplanned downtime, preparing NIST-readiness with data recovery and risk mitigation in mind, using orchestration and automation to reduce resource, labor and time consumption, and finding the right approach for on-premises, public or private cloud.

This podcast will focus on Zero Trust and how we need to be thinking differently about security, risk, & governance. The topics covered will include the convergence of government policies and moving to a continuous compliance model. Panelists will also discuss the Importance of AI while using unsupervised machine learning to enhance the mission of your agency or organization.

A conversation focused on the TIC 3.0 guidance policy execution, successes, and how its guiding Federal IT decision-makers in the wave of the pandemic. Hear thought leaders from both the public and private sectors talk about how they’re using these guidelines to develop secure telework environments. How are they using the cloud to create a faster and safer sensitive information access system? See what these experts are doing to execute network and cloud security during COVID-19.

View this 60-minute webinar on-demand to learn about the changes happening within the DevOps community as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Listen to thought leaders in the public and private sector talk about the cultural changes this pandemic era has spawned, what challenges they’ve faced shifting to telework and what effects this pandemic will have on the future.