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Location Intelligence: Protecting People and Property
<p>SS8’s “Location Intelligence: Protecting People and Property” explores how real-time geofencing, spatial and temporal analysis, and location data expose criminal networks, disrupt financial fraud, enable precision emergency response, and secure military zones. Government agencies can leverage location data to track assets, track criminal movements, and control access across physical and digital environments. SS8’s Intellego XT Globe and LocationWise power these capabilities, fusing data across sources and delivering API-driven, operational insights.</p>
From Reactive to Proactive: Building a Framework for Modern Citizen-Centered Government
<p>In today’s digital-first world, citizens expect efficient, seamless, and proactive interactions with government agencies—just as they do with private-sector services in banking, shopping, and entertainment. However, insights from a state and local government survey conducted by Market Connections in partnership with Adobe in December 2024, highlights a fundamental disconnect between citizen expectations and public sector services. This gap is not just a matter of convenience; it directly impacts public trust, efficiency, and service delivery effectiveness. Overcoming public distrust remains a significant challenge for over half of state and local agencies.</p>
Choice, Control, and Flexibility: How Government agencies are solving the telemetry data dilemma
<p>Keeping government operations running efficiently and securely is no easy task. To do so effectively requires IT operations and security teams to have maximum visibility into processes across all potential attack surfaces, so that they can ensure tools and systems are working both effectively and securely across an organization. To enable that visibility and efficacy, these teams rely on telemetry data — logs, metrics, and trace information — to provide them with the insight necessary to ensure that critical operations are functioning and secured optimally.</p> <p>In today’s budget environment, efficiency isn’t just a bonus — it’s a mandate. Agencies must find smarter ways to gather, analyze, and act on telemetry data without overwhelming analysis tools, budgets, infrastructure, and their own critical staff.</p> <p>But gathering and analyzing telemetry data, while critical to the mission, is both challenging and costly. Amid new budget pressures, what agencies need is a modern approach to telemetry data management, tools that deliver the visibility these teams require with control and flexibility to handle what is coming next.</p>
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Trump FY 2026: Deep cuts, flat defense, and government shakeup
<p>The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget outlines a broad effort to reshape federal priorities and operations.</p> <p>Key proposals include reducing the federal workforce, keeping defense spending flat, cutting funding for foreign aid and public media, and launching a reform initiative through the Department of Government Efficiency. The plan also proposes changes to federal employee benefits, including ending health coverage for transgender workers.</p> <p>These proposals reflect a significant reorganization of government spending and policy direction.</p>
5 key takeaways from ‘Strengthening Identity Verification and Combating Fraud in Government’ roundtable
<p>Identity fraud is accelerating—and legacy systems can’t keep up. In a closed-door roundtable hosted by GovExec and Socure, top government and tech leaders revealed how siloed teams, outdated tools, and weak data practices are enabling synthetic identities and AI-driven attacks. Download the key takeaways to explore actionable insights for modernizing identity strategies, closing security gaps, and preparing for future threats.</p>
Achieve government IT efficiency with empowered digital transformation
<p>Discover how digital transformation can help government agencies attain new levels of efficiency. Learn about cutting-edge strategies for AI and automation, cloud computing and financial operations to optimize costs and improve performance. Real-world success stories from the U.S. Air Force and the City of Las Vegas illustrate the tangible benefits of modernization. This guide will equip you with the knowledge to enhance public services and create a more efficient, responsive, and modern government. Download today.</p>
Building AI Ready Infrastructure
<p>Federal agencies are racing to adopt generative AI, but success hinges on robust, scalable infrastructure. This article outlines the significant power, storage, and compute demands of AI workloads and how existing systems fall short. It highlights strategies for modernization—like leveraging partnerships with Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, and GAI—to deliver GPU-optimized solutions, from edge devices to full-scale deployments, ensuring agencies can implement AI effectively and sustainably.</p>
Operationalizing Threat Intelligence for National Security
<p>In an era of escalating cyber threats and geopolitical tension, national security demands more than reactive defense—it requires intelligence-driven action. This white paper explores how government agencies and defense organizations can transform raw cybersecurity data into operational advantage through the strategic use of threat intelligence.</p> <p>Discover how OpenCTI Enterprise Edition empowers institutions to:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Detect and respond to threats faster with real-time, actionable intelligence</p> </li> <li> <p>Automate the correlation of threat data to uncover state-sponsored attack patterns</p> </li> <li> <p>Strengthen cyber resilience while reducing operational disruptions and financial risk</p> </li> </ul> <p>With insights into the threat intelligence lifecycle, deployment strategies, and real-world use cases, this paper is essential reading for security leaders seeking to stay ahead of adversaries and protect critical infrastructure.</p> <p><strong>Download now</strong> to learn how to operationalize threat intelligence at scale—and at speed.</p>
The agility mandate: How federal agencies are rethinking work to deliver faster
<p>Federal agencies are navigating a growing tension: the pressure to modernize quickly while maintaining security, compliance, and continuity. Budgets are tightening. Demands are rising. And the tools teams rely on often were not built for this level of speed, scale, or coordination.</p> <p>Federal agencies face pressures that go beyond what most commercial organizations experience. Breaking silos and improving productivity are essential, but agencies must do this inside high-stakes, compliance bound environments where public trust, national outcomes, and operational resilience are always on the line.</p> <p>This paper examines the challenges agencies face as they modernize and highlights how Atlassian Government Cloud provides the secure, integrated foundation they need to improve agility and deliver mission outcomes.</p>
Powering DOE’s mission with modern, secure cloud tools
<p>DOE manages some of the most complex programs in government. Its national labs, grant programs, energy technology pilots, and research initiatives tackle energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges. Each program has distinct needs and challenges. This operational complexity demands tools that can scale across organizations and timeframes.</p> <p>According to DOE’s Office of the CIO, modernizing IT systems is key to improving performance, governance, and cybersecurity readiness. DOE needs modern, secure tools that connect teams, break silos, and speed delivery across its clean energy, nuclear security, environmental cleanup, and research missions.</p> <p>Learn how Atlassian Government Cloud is built for this moment.</p>
Built to go beyond: Atlassian Government Cloud for NASA
<p>Exploring the unknown in air and space requires a level of precision unmatched by any other venture. From Artemis to Perseverance to the International Space Station, each of NASA’s programs requires careful coordination, documentation, and compliance. This coordination spans 20 facilities, commercial partners, academia, and 29 international space agencies. Having the right tools is critical to mission success.</p>
Fueling USDA’s next era
<p>The USDA is at a turning point. Tasked with advancing food security, rural prosperity, and environmental stewardship through climate-smart practices, data driven services, and customer-centered innovation. Now more than ever, modernizing digital operations, strengthening cybersecurity, and empowering USDA’s 100,000+ employees across 4,500 locations is key to delivering on mission.</p>
