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INDUSTRY
TRENDING
3 PROCUREMENT
GSA imagines a new small-business GWAC
FCW CALENDAR
Where you need to be next
8 POLICY
HHS signs $2.5B telecom contract. Plus, new rules for cybersecurity vendors?
25 TECHNOLOGY
GSA won’t budge on STARS II deadlines, and more legacy tech woes at IRS
28 MANAGEMENT
NASA doesn’t know what’s on its networks, and USCIS cancels employee furloughs
DEPARTMENTS
30 The 2020 WashingtonTechnology Top 100
What changes in the rankings suggest for the future of federal IT
BY NICK WAKEMAN
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EXEC TECH
Improving IT performance with DevSecOps
BY CHRIS YATES
IDEAS
Let’s finally put government forms to work
BY MICHAEL GARLAND
FCW PERSPECTIVES
Real-world data management
BY FCW STAFF
CASE STUDY
On-the-fly info sharing for first responders
BY STEPHANIE KANOWITZ
FCW INDEX
BOOKS
Do you really understand AI? BY TROY K. SCHNEIDER
ELECTION SECURITY
34 ‘Unprecedented’ challenges
The country’s election infrastructure is bending under the stress of multiple crises. Administrators are doing all they can to ensure it doesn’t break. BY DEREK B. JOHNSON
INNOVATION IN GOVERNMENT:
On the Road to IT Modernization
Agencies pivoted quickly to support remote work and online services during the pandemic. Now they must find ways to keep moving forward and clear the remaining roadblocks to modernization.
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Gaining ground on digital government
The future of digital transformation
Why the time to modernize is now
New opportunities to modernize security
The right approach to secure cloud migration
Building a future-ready IT infrastructure
Succeeding with software in the modern digital world
How OMB supports modernization
INNOVATION IN GOVERNMENT®
On the Road to IT
MODERNIZATION
Agencies pivoted quickly to support remote work and online services during the pandemic. Now they must find ways to keep moving forward and clear the remaining roadblocks to modernization.
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