Automation is a vital piece of the digital transformation that is sweeping across Federal agencies. It improves workflows and speeds processes, ultimately improving the quality of citizen services. MeriTalk recently sat down with Adam Clater, chief architect for North America Public Sector at Red Hat, to discuss the power of automation to transform citizen services, how agencies can plan for automation across the enterprise, and the importance of automating on a secure, stable foundation. […]

As Federal agencies adopt DevOps practices to shorten development cycles and increase deployment frequency, security must be interwoven into every aspect of the process from design, through coding, testing, release, and operation. […]

Several industry experts told MeriTalk in the run-up to the release of the latest FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) Federal agency scorecards that expected funding flows from the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT Act) may go a long way toward helping agencies boost their scores. […]

We see lots of moves to IT modernization in motion–but how does it all come together? The White House wants to tie those into a broader program, creating a new ecosystem to fuel government-wide modernization efforts. […]

The Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT) and other related initiatives are pushing agencies to move away from aging, legacy applications as well as costly, complex software projects. The goal is to have more secure, agile, and cost-effective IT infrastructures replace them. […]