IT security

“People are going to get in. We need to start designing a different strategy that accepts the network is permeable and designs around instead what’s on the network. The network isn’t valuable, it’s the data on the network, that at rest and being used.” Read More...

Desktop Services

Over the next 5 years virtualization and open source computing are going to dramatically increase productivity and radically transform the desktop environment. Read More...

Green Computing

The emphasis is not just on virtualization, it’s creating an ecosystem. The idea is to integrate the demand curve with cooling and electricity. Read More...

Information Sharing & Assurance

Information sharing is all about delivering the right information in the right format to the right person at the right time. Read More...

Virtualization

Virtualization – data center, desktop, application and OS – technologies can have far reaching positive impacts. It’s no wonder government is exploring how to make it work. And there is no shortage of suppliers who are eager to help government virtualize. Read More...

Tech Watch: Mobile IT

Dynamic government is mobile; secure wireless is the norm; and anywhere, anytime access to data and robust IT applications are expected as baseline services. That’s not for future government, that’s for today’s government. Read More...

Tech Watch: COOP

FPC-65 defines COOP as the activities that ensure essential functions are performed. This includes delineating essential functions; specifying succession plans and emergency delegations; safekeeping of vital records and databases; identifying alternate sites; providing interoperable communications; and validating the capability through tests, training, and exercises. Read More...

Rugged IT

In a work environment where mobility is becoming the norm rather than the exception, users expect their technology to stand up to the rigors of being used in almost every imaginable condition. In short, they expect their technology to be as rugged as their real-lives are. Read More...

Network Centric Solutions

Network-Centric capabilities allow the force to attain an improved information position that can partially ‘lift the fog of war’ and enable commanders to improve their decision making and fight in ways that were not previously possible. Read More...

DHS

DHS is targeting five priority goals essential to preserving freedom and privacy, meeting future challenges and fulfilling its mission of securing America. To provide its 208,000 personnel the tools and support they need to meet these goals, DHS is seeking $50.5 billion in FYO9 – an increase of 6.8% over FY08. Read More...

GSA

Throughout government there are professionals like you who are planning, implementing and then evaluating IT infrastructures, applications and networks. You are truly shaping your agency’s future. Read More...

PEO-EIS Catalog

The Program Executive Office was established in 1987 as Program Executive Office, Standard ArmyManagement Information Systems (PEO STAMIS) to helpimplement the Goldwater-Nichols Act. The Army Reorganization on October 26, 2001 resulted in the change to Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). Read More...

PEO-EIS Guidebook

To date, more than 16,000 individuals have been placed on the Department of Defense Biometrics Watchlist (a list of identities of interest to the Department), including more than 1,800 high value targets; more than 1,600 insurgents have been placed on ‘security hold’ – significant milestones in force protection. Read More...

Alliant Contract Report

Alliant and Alliant Small Business (SB) are GSA’s enterprise flagship GWACs; built to service your IT requirements for the next 10 years. Read More...

DISA Guidebook

In today’s connected world, those who would do us harm are connected perhaps more effectively than we are. According to a recent article in “Wired” magazine (“How Technology Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic”, November 27, 2007) insurgents in Iraq “cherry pick” the best U.S. technology – disposable email addresses, anonymous Internet accounts, and the latest radios. Read More...

US-VISIT and SBINet Report

US-VISIT, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) and the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) are the cornerstones of America’s efforts to control our nation’s borders. Read More...

Network Management

Every function of a government agency relies in some way on a robust and secure network and the intangible skills of the enlightened network manager. Read More...

Project Management

Managers can’t always avoid risk, so they need plans to avoid the risks they can and cope with those that arise. Read More...

Emergency Preparedness & Response

P25 compliant systems are being increasingly deployed with radios able to communicate in analog and digital mode providing a high degree of equipment interoperability, compatibility and economy of scale. Read More...

Green Solutions Guide

While many government executives may not be all that familiar with the “green” vernacular, most are forging ahead by recycling equipment, reducing power use through conservation and by adhering to “green” requirements in their primary tech-related acquisitions, according to the results of a recent online survey by the 1105 Government Information Group. Read More...

Perspectives from the Top research

For the third year in a row, the 1105 Government Information Group has conducted an online survey of top-level government executives to examine their technological and management priorities, to uncover what’s driving their IT investments today, and in the coming year. Read More...

GSA/GWAC Buyers Guide

GWAC planners take great care is selecting industry GWAC contract holders, making sure these “industry partners” really represent the “best of the best” among the large and small business IT product and services providers. Take advantage of a wide variety of choices – one of which is sure to meet your unique needs. Read More...