ATARC Federal IT Newscast

We are back!! We hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Tune in for this week's episode with host Jennifer Kenney-Smith, as she sits down with Amber Chaudhry, Customer Experience Lead at the Small Business Administration. We get to hear about Amber's experience paving the way for Customer Experience under former CIO at SBA, Maria Roat. Amber persevered, advocated, and challenged herself, and her team, along the way! Listen in to this success story and hear about Amber's lessons learned and advice for those trying to inspire change within their organization.

ATARC Presents Digital Transformation with the European Commission’s Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain. This is an information-sharing event focused on FinTech Digital Innovation in the EU, the European Blockchain Partnership and Blockchain as a Service. This webinar is hosted by the ATARC Security Working Group.

ATARC interview with Jim Sheire, Branch Chief of Quality Services Management Office (QSMO) at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Vincent Sritapan, Cyber QSMO Acting Section Chief, CISA to look back on the first year of activities, discuss lessons learned and accomplishments made.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about how the GSA Digital Worker Credentialing Handbook is helping user’s better understand procedural requirements, adjudications, and appeals of GSA employees, applicants, appointees, volunteers, and affiliates. This webinar is hosted by the ATARC Robotic Process Automation Project Team, as part of the artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics Working Group at ATARC.

DevSecOps Coffee Chat with CIO at USPTO, Jamie Holocombe

Due to strict federal requirements for mobile and IoT applications, agencies face several unique challenges when it comes to harnessing the full potential of mobile computing. Not only do they have to enable a secure and productive mobile workforce, they also must deliver efficient public-facing communications and reliable citizen services. One of the biggest mobility challenges that agencies encounter is how to effectively sync data between applications in the cloud and mobile or IoT devices used in the field. Doing so without compromising on security, performance, and reliability especially when mobile devices are offline or in remote locations with limited connectivity. Join us for a collaborative panel discussion where we’ll share lessons learned from specific agency’s use cases along with best practices for building the ultimate mobile experience.

How should agencies be assessing their level of where they are and where they want to be? This panel will discuss workforce requirements to succeed in predictive analytics projects, Workforce 2025 (OPM/RPA), CDO council/training government workforce, action plan 2020 for data skills, Data Readiness and prep for predictive analytics, culture, and change management in agencies.

Join us for this week's episode of our DevSecOps Coffee Chat and we speak with Praneeth Reddy, CTO at Jasper Solutions. He shares with us his Journey with Devops, key information and advice that you can use along your own DevOps journey within your agency or organization. Books mentioned: Continuous Delivery, Deployment and Automation by Jez Humble and The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim and Accelerate: The Science of DevOps by Nicole Forsgren.

Post election analysis, reflection, discussion, and discovery with industry experts specializing in electronic voting, blockchain development, and regulations. Gain valuable insights from the panelists in regards to elections the security surrounding the process.

New ways of working have emerged, both for citizens and the government agencies serving them. Agencies are reevaluating their technology needs during this pandemic time, and furthering their IT modernization, through Digital Transformation. One key ingredient to the advancements in Digital Transformation are Machine learning and Automation development.  Listen as topic experts dive into how advances in Machine Learning and Automation have made it easier to engage with constituents across channels. How do these federal topic experts use machine learning and automation to improve the process of reaching constituents?