Making the case for commercially successful tech
Note: this article was originally published at DefenseNews Despite the Pentagon’s efforts to develop advanced technology to strengthen national security and stay competitive, barriers remain, keeping much of the most promising emerging technology out of the government. Pockets of success do exist; Air Force acquisition in particular evaluates dual-use technologies through AFWERX and investment arm […]
Meet the 4 DevOps & Security Companies Scaling in the Federal Market
Last week, we kicked off our DevOps and Security acceleration program, designed to bring emerging tech solutions from the private sector to government missions. The Covid-19 pandemic emphasizes the U.S. government’s need for emerging tech and the right foundation for those solutions. DevOps tools can help the government ensure a solid foundation for a more […]
Finding the Needle in an Unstructured Data Haystack
MinerEye does something that no other company is doing right now: fills the black holes in data governance, namely unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that is hard to discover, map, index and classify — think file attachments, PDFs, PowerPoints, Word documents. Think about the data entities within these documents: social security numbers, citizenship, medical […]
Get Started with Government Contracting 101
The federal government represents a massive market opportunity for commercial tech companies. But many aren’t sure how to get started and are left asking themselves how to become a government contractor. The government has a lot of money to spend on tech — the federal government spends about $500 billion in contracts every year — […]
Why Tech Companies Should Care about Subcontracting
It’s no secret that subcontracting to a prime contractor is a proven way for small businesses to get federal work, but as an emerging tech company, you might not think of subcontracting as a major part of your go-to-market strategy. Subcontracting is mutually beneficial — partners can be too large or too broad to laser […]
Where Government Leaders Get Started with Commercial Tech
Tech innovation in the government is tough. The federal government gets a perhaps unfair share of heat when it comes to tech acquisitions. We’ve heard it all: long timelines, complicated compliance regulations, dated processes, a culture of risk aversion, and dreaded IP disputes that can topple contracts. The government is used to buying everything from […]
The Keys to Government Innovation? Partnerships and Proactivity
For years, the American workforce has functioned very traditionally, with employees commuting to and from a physical office for in-person meetings and face-to-face collaboration. However, now that over half of the workforce is engaging in remote work, Deloitte’s Chief Innovation Officer Nishita Henry has noticed “all kinds of cultural barriers that technology has helped disprove.” […]
Helping Federal Agencies Discover the Art of the Possible
As the head of Accenture Federal Services’ federal technology business, Tom Greiner is constantly exploring “the art of the possible.” To Mr. Griener, this means establishing a tone from the top that encourages experimentation with a range of new technologies to make internal processes more efficient, from mixed reality to IoT. Tom Greiner joined our […]
Lessons Learned from Transitioning 20,000 Employees to Telework
At Booz Allen Hamilton, Chief Innovation Officer Susan Penfield believes that people and clients come first. That means that when the company shifted its 20,000 employees to telework, data privacy and security were essential to continuing business as usual. She joined Dcode Virtual to discuss the challenges of converting clients to telework and the role […]
How the GSA is Using Tech to Stay Connected
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced much of the American workforce to be fully remote. While this may seem like a particularly daunting task for the government, known for its bureaucracy and outdated processes, Deputy Administrator of the General Services Administration, Allison Fahrenkopf Brigati, joins our Dcode Virtual series to discuss how the pandemic is propelling […]
