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Chris Brown, Two Six TechnologiesChris Brown is the Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Two Six Technologies.A fundamental shift has…

Rohit Gupta is CEO of Aretum As a hard-core technologist with a Computer Science background as well as a Government Contracting Services CEO, I am fortunate to keep in touch with many emerging technologies being used in both commercial and government organizations. There are many areas of the Federal Government operational space that are using

Vinit Duggal is Senior Vice President of Service and Network Engineering at SES. In today’s dynamically changing cyberthreat environment, everyone is a target. Security leaders face the ongoing, daunting challenge of protecting their organizations from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and AI-related threats. To do so, many organizations are turning to Zero Trust frameworks. Zero Trust is

Steven Hernandez is a DevSecOps and Cloud fellow at Systems Planning & Analysis, supporting U.S. Space Force command-and-control missions. Walk into any defense technology event this year, and the conversation is artificial intelligence, start to finish. AI is real and it matters. But that focus has crowded out a quieter shift that will do more

Daniel L. Simpson is a retired U.S. Air Force major general and an Air Force strategy & growth partner at IBM Federal. For the Department of War, the cloud conversation is no longer about whether to move, but how to move intelligently and optimize workloads across a hybrid cloud landscape. Leaders are being asked to

Robert Groat is executive vice president of strategy and technology at SMX. The Inflection Point Federal AI adoption has reached an inflection point, shifting from generative “advisors” to agentic “actors.” Until now, AI acted as a sophisticated analyst in secure enclaves, synthesizing intelligence while humans executed the mission. But Agentic AI crosses a new threshold

Siva Sivaraj is the vice president of technology and innovation at ITC Federal. Artificial Intelligence is dominating nearly every technology conversation across the federal government today. From generative AI to advanced analytics, agencies are exploring how AI can improve mission outcomes, increase efficiency, and enhance decision-making. While AI deserves the attention it is receiving, some

Raj Badhwar is chief information officer at Systems Planning & Analysis. He has over 30 years of leadership experience in cybersecurity, information technology and enterprise risk management. Let’s be honest about Zero Trust (ZT). Everyone loves theory, but the reality on the ground is a completely different story. Having written extensively on this topic, including

Shanna Staten is a business development executive for the Air Force Account at Chugach Government Solutions, LLC. Federal agencies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, and rightfully so. AI is helping improve decision-making, accelerate analysis, automate processes, and create new mission capabilities across government. But as organizations focus on the opportunities AI presents, another modernization

Greg Clifton is general manager – Government Go-to-Market & Sales at Intel For today’s federal leaders, the convergence of artificial intelligence and edge computing raises the prospect of huge benefits. While each domain is transformative on its own, their combined impact unlocks new levels of responsiveness, efficiency, and operational control. Edge AI places intelligence directly

Brian Snell is director of sales at Carahsoft, where he leads a 500-person organization spanning sales, sales operations, channel management, customer success and post-sales engineering across the Broadcom and VMware businesses. Government cybersecurity is being reshaped by a growing need for control. After years of aggressive cloud adoption, agencies are rethinking reliance on public cloud