The last few months have altered work in ways never before imagined. Conference rooms are now conference calls, and the new normal is still being defined. Government CIOs have been operating on the front line, triaging technical issues remotely, maintaining on premise servers from afar, and dealing with spikes in help desk services. Technology is just the tool; people are the driver to building enterprise-wide agility. The pandemic response ha...

Modernizing federal information technology (IT) systems requires competency, scalability, complexity, and security. Agencies across government currently operate legacy systems that need to keep serving constituents – even as upgrades are underway. The Decennial Census is one example agencies can look to for guidance. It leveraged a technical integrator approach while migrating to the cloud. This hour-long program will bring together thou...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government’s information technology organizations have been on the front lines, charged with the technological challenges of migrating virtually 100% of the government’s workforce to their homes. Connectivity, collaboration, IT help desk support, security protocols, and even hardware availability are only a few of the immediate demands placed on the IT organization— most of whom were also wor...

In the last three months, government’s global workforce has moved from brick and mortar offices to remote work spaces at home. The use of collaboration tools has soared, and cybersecurity teams have stepped up to provide guidance on how to ensure proper information security and privacy controls for the remote federal workforce. This webinar will explore how government agencies are employing trusted internet connections and harnessing tec...

ACT-IAC's seventh annual premier Igniting Innovation event will identify, recognize, promote, and connect the best innovations and innovators to improve services to citizens and government operations. The Prequel is an hour-long program that will preview some of the themes for that event and highlight some of last year’s Dynamite Award winners.

The Federal government’s procurement process has long been burdened with inefficiencies. The complexity of the process has resulted in major acquisition shortfalls because program management is undervalued, with procurement actions plagued by poor performance, cost overruns and schedule delays. Procurement reform known as frictionless acquisition is now one of government’s cross-agency goals. Agencies, modeling commercial purchasin...

Voters across the country expect uniformity in their electoral experience. Factors that directly impact the voter range from privacy for the voter and ballot secrecy to presentation and interaction modes such as enhanced visual and tactile controls. The 2020 election will tap the significant technological change that is occurring to enhance the voter election process and ensure that the voter confidentiality is protected. Technology security r...

According to GAO, the rapidly escalating challenges from the COVID-19 global outbreak present critical workforce issues for federal agencies to assess and address. Over 2.5 million federal employees, 3.7 million contractors, and most state and local agencies are dependent on having reliable, secure technology systems to perform their mission critical functions. The pandemic has resulted in widespread reliance on maximum telework to continue ag...

According to Gartner, moving applications to the cloud is a top priority (and one of the most often mentioned game-changing technologies) for government CIOs today. But obstacles – like lack of experience in cloud migration, security concerns, and policy hurdles – continue to impede agencies’ progress. The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified this issue considerably as agencies rely on their information technology infrastructure t...

A fair and free election process is a hallmark of American democracy, and Federal, state and local government officials are working together to secure America’s election infrastructure from new and evolving threats. This election infrastructure ranges from voter registration databases and voting systems to IT systems such as the counting, auditing, and displaying of election results, and post-election reporting to certify and validate re...