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Missile Defense
<p> <style type="text/css"><!--br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> </style> How is the Pentagon modernizing its missile defense capabilities? Defense One takes a look at the partnerships and technology making it possible.</p>
The H.R. 1 Provision States Can’t Afford to Sleep On
A new federal fund offers states an opportunity to transform rural healthcare. Some states are already showing the way forward.
Out with the old: 4 keys to advancing zero trust for today’s public sector
<p>As threats grow increasingly sophisticated, traditional cybersecurity methods no longer suffice for today’s public sector. With new federal mandates in place, including NSA guidance, many agencies are working to accelerate zero trust adoption to better combat attacks. In a webinar sponsored by Dynatrace and AWS, experts explored how agencies can strengthen zero trust efforts and the highlighted solutions leading the way forward.</p>
The Federal SOC Evolution: Transforming Cybersecurity Operations to Meet Tomorrow’s Threats
<p>Federal agencies are under increasing pressure to modernize outdated security operations centers (SOCs). Many still rely on legacy tools and manual processes that overwhelm analysts, delay threat detection, and create visibility gaps. This issue brief explores how these weaknesses expose agencies to sophisticated cyber threats—and what leaders are doing to drive SOC modernization.</p>
When continuity is critical to public safety, persistence is non-negotiable
<p>In high-stakes missions, whether managing disaster response, overseeing public safety, or coordinating military operations, agencies can’t afford to rely on tools designed for casual meetings. They need a secure, persistent virtual environment that delivers real-time coordination, shared situational awareness and continuity across teams, shifts and jurisdictions. Discover how Adobe Connect can empower faster decisions, reduce operational risk and ensure every stakeholder is working from the same mission-critical playbook.</p>
What government teams need now: Speed, security and smarter collaboration with Slack
Outdated productivity tools impede government operations. Slack offers a modern solution built for speed, security and mission-critical collaboration.
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>
Cisco Helps Federal Agencies Bridge the AI Infrastructure Gap
<p></p> <p>Federal agencies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence, but existing infrastructure solutions fail to meet emerging needs.</p> <p>Government agencies must embrace artificial intelligence or risk falling behind. The Trump Administration’s recent Executive Order on Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence calls for ambitious AI strategies that champion trust, transparency and innovation.</p> <p>While the Trump Administration’s call to action is clear, federal agencies face overwhelming tech debt from legacy infrastructure. Agencies cannot meet tomorrow’s needs with yesterday’s technology. Now is the time for leaders to invest in new ways of thinking, from network architecture to data governance. Download to learn more.</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>
Cross-skilling creates an efficient, adaptable workforce
A new approach to workforce development can help to optimize government tech talent.
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>
