FedTech Magazine

FedRAMP 20x is now live, and agencies are under pressure to acquire technology at commercial speed. In this environment, the traditional Authorization to Operate process — which can take 12 to 18 months — is increasingly seen as a bottleneck. Continuous Authorization to Operate flips that model. It uses automated monitoring, real-time risk assessment and ongoing compliance check...

The U.S. Navy’s two hospital ships provide comprehensive medical services for American military operations, humanitarian missions and disaster relief around the world. Keeping IT systems up and running is critical. The USNS Comfort, based in Norfolk, Va., and the USNS Mercy, based in San Diego, each features more than 1,000 beds and is fully equipped with doctors to perform surg...

Amid all of the excitement around artificial intelligence, it’s easy to lose sight of a more fundamental question: What does AI actually mean for the people doing the work? In this issue of FedTech, we explore a simple but essential idea — that the true value of AI lies not in replacing human expertise, but in amplifying it. Federal agencies are already beginning to shift their ...

As senior vice president of U.S. Public Sector at Cisco, Gary DePreta works closely with federal, state and local government leaders as they navigate technology modernization, cybersecurity challenges and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. With more than two decades at Cisco, he has a front-row seat to how agencies are preparing for an AI-driven future. In th...

Artificial intelligence technologies such as agentic AI are transforming the federal government by providing ways to automate customer service functions and build out new applications. In fact, 82% of government organizations have deployed AI agents, according to IDC research for Salesforce. Agentic AI involves systems that work autonomously to find and synthesize relevant infor...