ATARC Federal AI Summit 2024: Cost Challenges; No Workforce Disruptions; and Streamlining Manual Processes
It is widely understood that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform how government agencies operate and deliver services. However, government needs to balance the complexities of the technology to bring AI use cases to life. In late February, ATARC hosted its AI Summit 2024, which addressed the challenges and opportunities around AI, and […]
IRS Inflation Reduction Act Industry Day: The Strategic Operating Plan; Agile Development; and Human-Centered Design
In late February, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hosted its IRS Inflation Reduction Act Industry Day, which provided insights into the agency’s overall strategic priorities related to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). At the event, the IRS put its Strategic Operating Plan front-and-and center, as well as showcased its vision for enhancing its capabilities to […]
Women’s History Month: Celebrating Female Government IT Leadership
Each year, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation, which also includes International Women’s Day that took place on March 8th. This year’s International Women’s Day’s theme was “Inspire Inclusion,” which is a call to action to break down barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create environments where all women are valued and respected. In […]
Q&A: Fareeha Khan, Director of Marketing & Communications at Makpar, Discusses Government IT Marketing Successes
In the world of government IT, marketing is completely different from the B2B and B2C sectors. With longer sales cycles and highly sophisticated buyers who are often challenging to target directly, content marketing is the ideal avenue for influencing and educating government decision-makers. For Fareeha Khan, who was recently promoted to Director of Marketing & […]
Q&A: Introduction to Alex Spithas, Director of Project Integration at Makpar
With an extensive background in business process reengineering working with a number of federal agencies, Alex Spithas recently joined Makpar as the Director of Project Integration. He will be playing a major role in advancing emerging innovations to keep Makpar on the forefront of government IT. To officially introduce Alex to Makpar’s ecosystem of government […]
AFCEA Health IT Summit 2024: HHS Data Strategy; Data Sharing and AI Take Center Stage
At the recent AFCEA Health IT Summit 2024, the Department of Health U.S. Department of Health and Human Services took center stage with the official launch of its Data Strategy, which seeks to advance its management and use of data to improve human health outcomes. As the name of the strategy implies, data is foundational […]
Aligning Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation for Government
Data classification, data center capacity, data integrity and data storage are all key challenges that government CIOs are facing when embracing the new frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is critical to focus on how AI can lead to true digital transformation, as well as the ability embrace exploration to solve these critical mission challenges. […]
Black History Month: Celebrating African American Government Leadership
As an annual observance each February, Black History Month was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans in the United States – from activists and civil rights pioneers to leaders in industry, politics, science, culture and more. As we have highlighted in the past, a wide-range of government agencies honor this special […]
How Makpar Enables 508 Compliance Testing for Federal Agencies
As part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508 requires that government agencies procure, create, use and maintain Information Communication Technologies (ICT) that are accessible to people with disabilities, regardless of whether or not they work for the federal government. In addition, on January 18, 2017, the U.S. Access Board published a final rule […]
Advancing Section 508 Compliance for Government Agencies
Section 508 compliance is well below expectations, according to the General Services Administration’s (GSA) latest report to Congress about overall federal website accessibility. The report found that more than three quarters of the agencies that responded were at or below average in terms of compliance. In addition, less than 30 percent of top-viewed online content […]