Cybersecurity has become a top priority for the federal government as it presses forward in its digitization journey. Today, public sector agencies are constantly collecting and leveraging unprecedented amounts of data to advance their goals, and safeguarding this information is critical for mission success. The Potomac Officers Club will bring toge...
According to Jody Hardin, executive director for planning, program analysis and evaluation at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency is making progress in its journey to transform its traveler processing methods and technology. “We are looking at segmenting not just travelers, but our prioritization of work that we need to be able to foc...
Healthcare experts, decision makers and thought leaders from government and industry will gather to discuss the next generation of healthcare technology and innovation at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Healthcare Summit on Dec. 6. Register here and read below for a breakdown of the summit’s sessions. Keynote Speakers Opening the day’s p...
Julie Brewer, a veteran military and government official, was named deputy under secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. Brewer has been with DHS since October 2009, taking on roles of increasing responsibilities for over a decade. She most recently worked as executive director ...
The U.S. Coast Guard is increasingly depending on automatic identification system-provided data to help safeguard the maritime border of the Customs and Border Protection and potentially the Indo-Pacific region, Federal News Network reported Thursday. AIS works to provide specific information during vessel monitoring efforts to increase situation aw...
Cyber is the “latest front in warfare” according to Michael Greenman, senior product marketing manager at Deltek. As the U.S. government works to maintain its standing in the cyber realm, industry has “rallied around the idea of cybersecurity risks,” and the public sector has continued to update its cybersecurity standards to ensu...
The Department of the Interior has awarded General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business a potential 10-year, $2.54 billion contract to support the Indian Health Service’s health IT modernization effort. The award of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was announced through a notice published Wednesday on SAM.gov....
In July, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced six key priorities for fiscal year 2023: cybersecurity, soft targets and crowded places, intelligence and information sharing, domestic violent extremism, community preparedness and resilience and election security. Since then, the department has been continuously exploring new wa...
The Defense Health Agency has been on a mission to transition to a single, consolidated network in an effort to modernize and standardize the enterprise’s health information technology infrastructure. “We bulldozed down the old networks [and] created a new one,” explained Pat Flanders, PEO for Medical Systems and Chief Information O...
After 10 years of operation, the Defense Health Agency has reorganized its internal structure with the aim of better serving the internationally stationed joint forces of the U.S. On Oct. 1, DHA ushered in the first phase of its restructure with the introduction of nine Defense Health Networks, or DHNs, replacing its previous 20 direct reportin...
