ATARC Federal IT Newscast

DevSecOps Coffee Chat with CIO at USPTO, Jamie Holocombe

Due to strict federal requirements for mobile and IoT applications, agencies face several unique challenges when it comes to harnessing the full potential of mobile computing. Not only do they have to enable a secure and productive mobile workforce, they also must deliver efficient public-facing communications and reliable citizen services. One of the biggest mobility challenges that agencies enco...

How should agencies be assessing their level of where they are and where they want to be? This panel will discuss workforce requirements to succeed in predictive analytics projects, Workforce 2025 (OPM/RPA), CDO council/training government workforce, action plan 2020 for data skills, Data Readiness and prep for predictive analytics, culture, and change management in agencies.

Join us for this week's episode of our DevSecOps Coffee Chat and we speak with Praneeth Reddy, CTO at Jasper Solutions. He shares with us his Journey with Devops, key information and advice that you can use along your own DevOps journey within your agency or organization. Books mentioned:  Continuous Delivery, Deployment and Automation by Jez Humble and  The Phoenix Project  by Gene...

Post election analysis, reflection, discussion, and discovery with industry experts specializing in electronic voting, blockchain development, and regulations. Gain valuable insights from the panelists in regards to elections the security surrounding the process.

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them. Agencies are reevaluating their technology needs during this pandemic time, and furthering their IT modernization, through Digital Transformation. One key ingredient to the advancements in Digital Transformation are Machine learning and Automation development.  Listen as topic experts dive into...

To provide a podcast as a platform to share the journey of Digital Transformation/ Expand upon passion and purpose and get a message out to the federal government / Audience to learn more about digital and IT transformation with evolving technology and a focus on DevOps.

Join us for a webinar to hear from the Head of AI Ethics Policy at the JAIC, Alka Patel, and a presentation from For Humanity’s Executive Director, Ryan Carrier. ForHumanity, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity formed to examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI and Automation.  Further, to engage in risk control and mitigation, where possible, t...

Listen to ATARC's coffee chat with change agent, Rayvn Manuel, Senior Application Developer at Smithsonian Institution, NMAAHC. Rayvn is effectively improving mission enablement and user experience, while being a thought leader in the federal space. Join us as she shares her story on this 15 minute coffee chat.

The utilization of emerging technologies in procurement and acquisition have come a long way from years past. Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing have developed to a new point, where more capabilities exist today to explore its many applications. The time is right for industry, government, and academia to collaborate together and explore how these technologie...

This event is a first look at the ATARC TIC 3.0 Demonstration Center located on the Equinix campus in Ashburn, VA that will provide Federal agencies an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate industry-leading TIC solutions designed to optimize user experience while simultaneously improving security compliance and efficacy. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a first look at the early results of the A...

Identity and access management, data analytics, and artificial intelligence are all important components of today’s digital transformation efforts. What if we could marry all three to create a more secure, better controlled, and highly automated identity analytics solution that also offers an easier, faster and seamless user experience? Underlay this union with automated identity governance proced...

What does it take for one person to spark an idea for change and then fan it into a transformational shift for the larger organization? How can an individual contributor communicate that vision to peers and executives to influence IT projects, programs, or even agency direction? Join this session to hear women leaders in government share their insight, experiences, and advice for ‘selling innovati...

On September 16, 2020, a bipartisan bill was introduced by Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1) that would fast-track quantum internet innovations in the United States by establishing and supporting a quantum network infrastructure research and development program at the Department of Energy’s Office of Science: the Quantum Network Infrastructure Act of 2020. This pr...

To provide a podcast as a platform to share the journey of Digital Transformation/ Expand upon passion and purpose and get a message out to the federal government / Audience to learn more about digital and IT transformation with evolving technology and a focus on DevOps.

A panel discussion on network modernization in relation to the challenges of delivering enterprise-wide security and performance under the new normal. Agency leaders examine the limitations of traditional Wide Area Networks, and the benefits of redesigning WAN infrastructure in the context of TIC 3.0 guidance. What are the advantages of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and what can be g...

As we move into 2021, we bring with us national investment momentum towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Quantum Information Sciences (QIS). With his most recent announcement of over $600 million dedicated to QIS, President Trump is chartering new territory and establishing a policy of aggressive R&D in future technologies. By likening the effort to past American achievements of landing on...

A collaborative panel discussion around the already evidenced and future evolution of TIC 3.0 – and where agencies stand in their confidence to take steps towards its implementation. What started as a higher level “Cloud Smart” adoption strategy, has progressed into an enhanced set of protection frameworks. Yet the guidance remains dynamic, adaptable and descriptive to accommodate&n...

National scale problems require the complete integration of multiple fields on knowledge and joint effort between academia, industry, government, and non-profits to solve them The Convergence Accelerator is a one and half year old program at the National Science Foundation that exists to fund the development of solutions to these problems. NSF Convergence Accelerator – AI Innovation The Convergenc...

An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal...

In order to explore the Moon, Mars, and the universe beyond, an organization must be at the forefront of digital transformation and the adoption of new technologies. Join this event to see how NASA is able to achieve its advancements of new technology through agency wide coordination, and the encouragement of best practices. This event will focus on the digital advancement of NASA’s systems and ho...

This panel will explore lesson’s learned, common misconceptions, the value proposition, challenges, and use cases related to the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) journey.

Shareholders have great expectations for boards to take an active role in managing risks. Yet, boards only spend 9% of their time on risks. A quantum-aware board of directors must become the new standard. Consequently, board members should have an understanding of how this technology works to help ensure that the organizations they oversee become quantum resilient. Today, we have assembled an elit...

An information sharing event focused on leveraging and accelerating the use of data analytics technologies to navigate the present and post-pandemic future. Subject matter experts explore successfully implemented core data practices as evidenced in specific use cases. Thought leaders imagine the “art of the possible” in expanding on data analytics applications and benefits internal to the federal...

The OSCAL/Agile ATO Project Team has been working to increase the speed of the Authority to Operate (ATO) for Cloud while keeping pace with security requirements in the Government. This project team explores OSCAL (Open Security Controls Assessment Language) as a way to capture FedRAMP artifacts in machine-readable format to increase automation and the creation of a Zero Trust test...