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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Containerization: Don’t Get Blindsided by Hidden Security Threats, on the site GovLoop 1 week, 6 days ago

    Without a doubt, the concept of containerization is bringing new energy to modernization efforts across government.

    Containers revolutionize the way organizations build, deploy, and manage applications. A […]

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      Kelly Boyer replied 1 week, 4 days ago

      I love the “house” metaphor for an application. Comparisons make concepts like this easier to understand!

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Challenge & Solution: Becoming the Modern Federal Agency, on the site GovLoop 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    There’s a tangible, real-life impact of not modernizing—it creates inefficiencies and backlogs that drag down agency services. Even more so, in times of crisis like a global pandemic.

    “Just look at the numbe […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Enhance Military Readiness, Move Past a Limited View of Health, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    It’s never been easy to maintain the health and well-being of 1.4 million service members, not to mention 1.7 million military family members. But in addition to the large amounts of people in the military who n […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, How to Create Your Open Hybrid Cloud Strategy, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    It has become clear that the landscape of cloud adoption is one of hybrid and multicloud deployment. According to Gartner, by the end of 2020, 75% of organizations will have deployed a multi or hybrid cloud […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Accelerating Digital Transformation For Lives at Stake, on the site GovLoop 4 months, 2 weeks ago

    Accessing a website isn’t normally a life-or-death situation. But in November 2018, it was. A massive, destructive wildfire was burning in California, and nearly 300,000 people had to be evacuated.

    The county […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Remote Connection Is an Essential Technology for Child Welfare, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago

    Child welfare and Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have long had growing demands on their time and resources from clients, social workers, caseworkers, clerical staff, lawyers and the community at large. […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Why Government Must Revolutionize End-to-End Application Security, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago

    Federal agencies face difficult challenges: cyberattacks, mobile access, data center consolidation, cloud deployments, complex application environments and constantly increasing network traffic. At the heart of it […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Mapping Out Digital Transformation With a DevOps Culture, on the site GovLoop 5 months, 1 week ago

    Imagine knowing a coworker is struggling with a project intended to help thousands of end-users — alone. They’re isolated from any support, using antiquated tools and are aware they are grappling with the pro […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, The Solution to Modernizing Pay Management, on the site GovLoop 6 months ago

    Today in agencies nationwide, most government payroll, HR and workforce operations use decades-old software, which is costly and difficult to maintain.

    “This use of legacy administrative tools makes it l […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Protecting Data in the Cloud Era, on the site GovLoop 6 months, 1 week ago

    Today, there is no doubt: Data fuels the federal government’s mission. And federal agencies are working to harness the power of data. For example, the federal government’s proposed 2021 budget funds the dev […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, What Does It Mean to Create an Intentional Career?, on the site GovLoop 7 months, 2 weeks ago

    Are you being intentional or organic about your career? 
    Take a moment to reflect on your career path and job positions you’ve held up until this moment.

    If you’re anything like me, for most of your life, you […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, How You Can Make Your Meetings Better, on the site GovLoop 7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Editor’s Note: To help our community navigate these unprecedented times, we’ve refreshed some of our best content that educates, uplifts and unites the government workforce.
    Everyone has been to them, most h […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Achieving Cloud-Based Data Protection Across Your Agency, on the site GovLoop 8 months, 3 weeks ago

    Today, hackers are attacking public- and private-sector organizations for their data more aggressively than ever. Some bad actors want to own it, some want to delete it and some want to use ransomware to hold the […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Lessons Learned From the Front Line of Data Protection and Recovery, on the site GovLoop 9 months, 1 week ago

    Streamlining IT on the High Seas
    Doctors perform 313 million surgeries every year all over the world, but only 6% of them serve the billion-plus people living in the developing world. That’s where Mercy Ships a […]

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      Stephanie Smith replied 9 months, 1 week ago

      Thank for the interesting story about Mercy ships .

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Best Practices: Moving to Agile Acquisition, on the site GovLoop 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Data silos. Increasing customer expectations. Acquisition complexity. Rapidly changing market solutions. Limited resources. Shifting policy and compliance requirements.

    This is the landscape that contract […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, How You Bring More Agility to Acquisition, on the site GovLoop 10 months, 2 weeks ago

    Each government agency faces unique challenges in how it acquires goods and services and ensures transparency to meet constituents’ needs. With a modern procurement platform that is purpose-built for go […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Overcoming the Hurdles for Modern Procurement, on the site GovLoop 11 months ago

    The government faces unique challenges in how it acquires goods and services and ensures transparency to meet constituents’ needs. Potential issues include risk in delivering the right goods and services on t […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Meet Our Latest Round of Featured Contributors!, on the site GovLoop 11 months ago

    We put out a call for the selected Featured Contributors for this quarter, and many applicants sprang into action. And we wanted to introduce you to all of them.

    Read on to meet these contributors for GovLoop […]

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      Blake Martin replied 11 months ago

      So excited for this cohort!

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        Nicole Blake Johnson replied 11 months ago

        Agreed!

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      Jamie C. Veals replied 11 months ago

      So thrilled to be featured alongside such professionals.

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Optimizing Your Data With the Power of AI, on the site GovLoop 11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Edward Dowgiallo, Architect at the Transportation Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer and Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Office of Information Technology, is helping deploy artificial int […]

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    Catherine Andrews wrote a new post, Tools and Tactics to Bring DevSecOps to Your Agency, on the site GovLoop 11 months, 3 weeks ago

    Today, leading governments are working to integrate security into their DevOps practices and culture, ensuring that public sector innovation can be delivered securely – and creating an evolved approach c […]

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      Mark Hensch replied 11 months, 3 weeks ago

      Thanks for sharing information about these topics Catherine! This article as very informative.

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