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Today’s government agencies generate massive amounts of data that must be ingested, processed, and made accessible/actionable on a daily—sometimes hourly or real-time—basis. To accomplish this, public sector organizations require the agility to make spot maneuvers in response to changing operational conditions and mandates; subsequently, their supporting data infrastructures must allow for end-to-end visibility and governance…

Introduction: What does Strategic Portfolio Management look like in the Fed Gov? Many government agencies struggle with accessing data in legacy applications, siloed systems only used by one department in an agency, or disparate systems created to meet one specific need within an agency. To address the inefficiencies that arise from disparate and disconnected data…

Table of Contents: ARTICLE: DOD’s JADC2 Concept is Now CJADC2 Military leaders want to emphasize the ‘combined’ nature of the joint strategy. BY JORDAN MCDONALD ARTICLE: To Modernize Command and Control, Air Force Wants to Keep Things Simple In order to fully realize the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept Combined Joint All-Domain and…

What does Strategic Portfolio Management look like in the Fed Gov? Today, business capabilities, and the tech behind them, can be considered portfolios. For example, capabilities consist of business processes, in turn supported by business applications, and technical services. Technology portfolios in government agencies can extend across cloud-based solutions, on-premise solutions, and powerful mainframe systems.…

Microservices make businesses more agile! More secure! More connected! That, at least, is the rallying cry from the endlessly optimistic business leads who are looking for a silver bullet to solve all of their challenges. And you surely don’t disagree—the potential is there! But with any conversation about microservices, there should be a big asterisk…

Today’s users, whether employees, customers or constituents, expect multichannel experiences and increasingly look to digital channels first when interacting with organizations. As a result, many transformation and modernization initiatives focus on improving user experiences, streamlining processes, and connecting digital channels to legacy backend systems. These initiatives attempt to improve the speed of government agencies. They…

  The ability to quickly and effectively share information across the criminal justice system can be a matter of life or death. State and local justice and public safety agencies require that accurate and complete information is delivered to the right people at the right time. When information fails to arrive, arrives late, is incomplete…

  State and local governments that depend on legacy mainframe technology for core processes are facing daunting challenges as they look to the future. FORTRAN, COBOL and green screens are of the past, but they still have applications that are relevant today, and the best path forward in terms of cost, risk, and smoothness of…

  Twenty years ago, technology was well established in government agencies, but the IT team itself was often disconnected from the agency mission. Today, much of the modernization that is being planned (or is already underway) in agencies revolves around IT because technology is extremely essential to how organizations operate. Technology is at the center…

  When the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced its new data strategy in September 2020, much of what the department is aiming to do sounded familiar to people with experience in private sector information technology. The DoD plans to transform into a data-centric organization and use data to help the department fulfill a number…