Blog one in a series

Government agencies face significant challenges in modernizing their networks and infrastructure, particularly due to limited resources, budget constraints, and government mandates. Amid these pressures, there is a growing opportunity to fundamentally rethink how the federal government approaches modernization, with a focus on resilience, efficiency, and adaptability.

By eliminating key technological debt (tech-debt), agencies can  discover game-changing automation and cross-architecture orchestration capabilities that optimize performance and agility, enable future-proofed digital transformation, and help ensure mission-critical resiliency.

This discussion builds on two of my earlier blogs that provide a foundation for this conversation: 1) Rethinking Federal Resiliency; and 2) Transforming IT Modernization. 

Importance of Modernization

Modernizing essential networks, infrastructures, applications, and security is now vital to ensuring enterprise mission resiliency by enhancing efficiency, significantly reducing downtime and strengthening Zero Trust security. Siloed modernization must become a thing of the past. Cross-architecture visibility and telemetry at scale are key to understanding enterprise interdependencies that drive mission resiliency.

Tech-Debt Elimination

Modernized infrastructures provide the most granular visibility and analytics that enable advanced enterprise automation and orchestration across both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) assets. Data and telemetry delivered from modern infrastructure assets can see and understand every communication packet and is foundational to dynamic asset visibility and real-time, automated and continuous monitoring. In addition, the ability to detect anomalous activity in real time provides the means to deliver dynamic enterprise infrastructure optimization and protect against and minimize adverse security impacts. Modernized infrastructure also enables integrated threat intelligence across both IT and OT environments.

AI-Powered Capabilities are Key to Resilience

One of the most important features of modernized networks and infrastructures are advanced AI/ML algorithms and controllers and their ability to deliver enterprise automation and orchestration across critical networks and infrastructures. It is not uncommon in today’s legacy networks for over 95% of network changes to be performed manually.  Therefore, the ability to provide enterprise-wide automation and orchestration creates enormous network and infrastructure operations “run” cost savings as well as greatly reduces the #1 enemy of mission resilience – human error.

Next Steps

NWN Federal brings together the combined strengths of Leverage Information Systems, a highly respected provider of solutions for federal agencies and NWN, a recognized leader in AI-powered solutions for clients.  NWN Federal’s proven strategies and 30+ years of expertise help ensure optimal performance, enhanced security, and resilient operations for federal agencies. 

I hope you enjoyed this first blog in our series on rethinking governmental modernization.  The second blog addresses key federal efficiency and modernization guidance and mandates and part 3 focuses on modernization strategies for existing agency brownfield environments.   

We invite governmental agencies to reach out for further discussions on modernization, resilience and a new way to partner with industry to acquire modernized enterprise infrastructure designed for this new hyper efficiency-focused era.  Connect with a federal expert at NWN Federal for a follow-on conversation.