Small businesses play an important role in developing and delivering innovative services and technologies that help federal agencies achieve mission success. As technology rapidly changes and threats continue to evolve, partnering with small businesses creates the potential for greater agility and innovation across the federal government. Leveraging their agility, small businesses can turn ideas into solutions quickly, change direction at a mo...

Leveraging AI/ML to Improve Mission Delivery Across Government Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are expected to revolutionize how government operates, enabling federal employees to focus on core responsibilities related to their agencies’ missions while spending fewer hours on administrative tasks. Moreover, federal decision makers are looking to harness the potential of AI/ML to make positive changes in areas such as healthc...

The Transformation Agenda: Emerging Strategies for the Next Wave of Health IT Transformation is on the agenda in government healthcare. Digital services, automation, analytics and artificial intelligence are just a few of the technologies that are beginning to have a major impact on nearly every aspect of healthcare, from medical research to operational management and patient care. But transformation requires more than new technology. AFCEA Be...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

Digital Transformation:Balancing Citizen Services with Enterprise Security Federal agencies clearly are committed to improving the quality and experience of citizen services, as seen in the heightened focus on UX/CX and human-centered design in recent years. Still, the availability of on-demand services, in everything from music and movie streaming to online banking, are reshaping public expectations. How can federal agencies meet those expect...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

AFCEA Bethesda's Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. The goals of the event series are to foster better inter-agency communication, share best practices and lessons learned and identify mission-critical IT issues affecting the federal IT community. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, the panel format offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency persp...

The concept of the modern IT enterprise is not a fixed thing. The vision we have now soon will give way to a new vision, based on a wide array of drivers-including the emergence of new technologies and operational strategies, lessons learned from current modernization efforts, and the evolution of mission requirements. This roundtable discussion, the concluding event in our four-part IT Enterprise Spring, will provide attendees an opportunity...

The concept of a cyber ecosystem is essential to the administration’s efforts to strengthen the security of the federal IT enterprise. That ecosystem encompasses a broad range of cyber solutions, from data and systems security to automation and orchestration. This roundtable discussion, the concluding event in our 2019 Cyber Sprint series, will explore the evolution of the cyber ecosystem and what it means for agencies’ IT operatio...

A skilled workforce. Transformation technologies. Secure and effective information sharing. These are the drivers of modernization in the law enforcement and public safety (LEAPS) community. This is modernization in the fullest sense of the word - the development of technologies, policies and processes that address long-standing obstacles, eliminate inefficiencies, and accelerate the delivery of mission services. With its 11th annual LEAPS Tec...