But change happens all the time. Emerging crises and demands around the globe require a continual shuffling of priorities. What’s more, by the time funds are appropriated for ongoing programs, the needs often no longer align to the dollars.

In this exclusive e-book, we will take a look at these topics and then some, while also gathering insights from military leaders on where DoD processes need retooling. We hope it will help your agency think about how it can tackle its own comparable planning and budgeting challenges, even if your agency has a civilian mission.

As the Government Accountability Office detailed in 2021, keeping pace with China illustrates the multifaceted challenges that DoD (and the government generally, to be fair) faces in competing globally. “The good news is that DoD knows this and is taking action, although our work has found that DoD will need to continue its course and strengthen its capabilities to be best positioned to face this threat,” notes Cathy Berrick, managing director of GAO’s Defense Capabilities and Management Team.

In this ebook, Federal News Network provides a look at the breadth of those challenges as well as offers insights about how federal agencies and organizations are tackling or plan to tackle the great power competition. We have included experts from:

·      Congressional Research Service
·      Defense Department
·      International Development Finance Corporation
·      Government Accountability Office
·      National Defense Industrial Association
·      NSF’s National Science Board
·      National Security Agency
·      National Security Commission on AI
·      Special Competitive Studies Project

Click here to download “Expert Edition: Great Power Competition – Taking the Long View.”

In this exclusive ebook, we peel back the curtain to find out about efforts at ARS, DHS S&T, NSF and VA. In the pages ahead, you will be able to find out more about each of these efforts and glean learnings that can help your organization as it implements 5G.

In this exclusive ebook, we share insights on securing telework at scale, for the long haul. The reality is that most agencies today face a uniquely different telework challenge than they did just a couple of years ago. We hope this ebook will help your agency as it tackles these new demands and looks toward what’s next on the IT horizon.

Achieving outcomes and mission objectives takes the spotlight as the chief driver in a government environment that will leverage multiple domains, cloud and on-premises, and be paired with a zero trust security rubric.

This exclusive e-book highlights what has worked, what has not and how government is evolving from a get-to-the-cloud perspective to a right-cloud-use model.

In this exclusive ebook, CISA, DISA and FHFA share tactics that each organization is taking to make federal systems less attractive targets. We hope these ideas help your organization do same.

In truth, the military services have long had this view of their infrastructure because deployments make that agile need a reality, but they too are expanding how they define and support edge computing.

This exclusive ebook provides fresh ideas about infrastructure modernization that your organization can apply to help reduce major failures on your path to edge computing success.

Now, as the government adapts to a post-COVID environment where hybrid work will continue to be a key part of the equation, agencies are building on what they learned to make the government an attractive employer compared to competitors that often can offer bigger salaries.

This exclusive e-book highlights how agencies aim to make government a great place to work in 2022.

If agencies and industry can prioritize harnessing this environment and perpetuating it, they can get the most out of emerging technologies and best practices, like automation, edge computing and zero trust.

This exclusive e-book highlights how public and private partnerships have the power to revolutionize the way government serves its citizens.

Then the pandemic hit, and the supply challenges grew immensely to include more than time and accuracy, but actual access to products.

This exclusive e-book highlights how the military services and defense agencies are rethinking their approach to managing their supply chains and how data is driving those decisions.

It’s clear agency technology and cyber executives recognize the need to accelerate and modernize their identity and access management tools and capabilities.

This exclusive e-book highlights how identity and access management will continue to evolve as agencies face more aggressive cyber threats while keeping data and systems accessible.

Federal employees and retirees have from Nov. 8 through Dec. 13 to check in with your current plan, explore others and maybe make a few changes.

This exclusive e-book jumpstarts your research and plants the seeds of your knowledge base that tools from the Office of Personnel Management and from the private sector can help germinate and grow.

The Foundations of Evidence Based Policymaking Act of 2018 pushed agencies to create the infrastructure, particularly by naming a chief data officer. Now, the CDOs are leading efforts to construct data super highways that go from sensor to decision maker.

This exclusive e-book highlights some examples of how agencies are benefitting from that concept of data-in-motion to improve mission outcomes.

In this Expert Edition: Cloud Migration and Edge Computing, you’ll hear from the people who see both the promise and truth of the cloud. There are agencies well down the path of delivering mission services to any device, anywhere, and there are some who are still figuring out what their path looks like.

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In this Expert Edition: Zero Trust – Privileged Access Management, you’ll hear from the people who are creating the culture, defining the philosophy and building the framework for the government writ large.

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