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The Kearney Technology Group is Kearney & Company’s technology management consultancy arm. We provide the expertise to allow our clients to navigate their unique digitization journey—from vision to strategy; to planning, building, and running operations; and through regulatory compliance.

We’ve played a key role in the success of several government programs, serving as a consulting partner of choice to organizations seeking to digitally transform, using two core principles:

Prioritizing the Agility of Technology: Our seasoned technology experts help clients refine the vision, set clear priorities, and choose the right strategy that will best support their mission success.

Pairing Technology and Subject Matter Expertise: In every digital transformation, Kearney takes an interconnected approach that combines mission and portfolio, people and organizations, operations and processes, and digital technologies. Working alongside governmental programs, we bring the right people, processes, and products to support clients at every stage—from assessment to strategy development to implementation.

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Agile Provides a Quicker Time to Value for Federal Analytics Organizations

Analytics Organizations should focus on becoming Adaptive Organizations that can leverage Agile to increase productivity, focus on the Federal customer, shorten time-to-value delivery, and thereby increase value in Federal mission operations over time.

Eye on the Future: An Out of This World Challenge

In 2020, COVID-19 flipped the world on its axis. Travel slowed drastically, and the economy shifted, disrupting the supply chain and more. Worldwide, people made difficult decisions to balance their well-being with family and community health and safety. In May, NASA Space Apps, an international forum for individuals of all ages and disciplines to use publicly available data from NASA and other sources to solve real-world problems, issued its COVID-19 Challenge to learn from the pandemic.

AGA Report on the Status of RPA in Federal Financial Management

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has necessitated the transfer of office-only positions to remote-enabled ones, which means many manual processes should be examined for ways to decrease the time and effort needed to accomplish those tasks. The Financial Management (FM) environment across the Federal Government is large and complicated, as are the systems that support those processes, and this is where Robotic Process Automation (RPA) comes into play.

NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5: Straightforward Changes with Complex Solutions

As technology continues to advance, so must the controls that support the development of secure and resilient Federal information systems. Do you know what the new NIST SP changes mean for you and your organization?

Impact of Executive Order (EO) 14028: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity

What events lead up to the issuance of Executive Order 14028? What does this Executive Order aim to accomplish? In this article we cover the implications of EO 14028.

Three Practical Recommendations to Secure Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in a Federal Information Technology (IT) environment

As technology advancements continue at a rapid pace and agencies face the challenge to increase efficiency across their operational processes, the use of RPA is becoming more prevalent across the Federal Government. This article provides three overarching recommendations for RPA Program Teams to support the successful implementation and operation of the program.

Identifying Food Insecurity Among Older Adults

The purpose of the VA Datathon is to explore and identify open data assets supporting solutions that deliver outcomes positively impacting communities across the Commonwealth.

With So Much RPA, Why Don’t We Have More RPA?

Government agencies and companies alike are implementing automation processes to optimize performance and increase productivity, among other benefits.

Overcoming the Valleys of Change to Get to the Summit

The journey of venturing beyond the status quo and reaching for new heights may go as planned or entail some unplanned bumps along the way. This is like the experiences of many individuals when implementing organizational change.

Best Practices for RPA and Financial Systems Implementation

Implementing a financial system can be a challenging exercise that is critical to the success of a financial institution. Robotics Process Automation (RPA) technology offers the promise of reducing time and cost from this process and helps improve its quality.

Keep Datasets Clean Using Data Quality Assessments

The Information Age has created a universe of data requiring rapid organizational change. The volume, velocity, and variety of the data has resulted in disjointed systems, siloed repositories, and a lack of communication around common challenges. As data degrades over time, the amount of organizational effort required to correct it grows exponentially.

ChatGPT: Potential Uses and Limitations in Conversational AI

The emergence of conversational AI has heralded a new era in human-computer interaction, transcending the boundaries of what was once thought possible.

The Fundamental Shift to a Data-centric Security Posture Through Zero Trust Architecture

With malicious actors becoming more sophisticated in exploiting various attack avenues, along with organizations adopting new technology to meet business needs, the attack surface has become exponentially larger. This makes it much more difficult to just defend organizational assets through a defense-in-depth approach.

No Inherent Trust?

The ingenuity of cyber-attacks is increasing every day, and each organization must have that same thought process when conceptualizing a Zero Trust environment.

Tableau Capabilities Federal Agency Kearney Blog

Tableau Capabilities to Improve Federal Agency Oversight and Monitoring

Creating effective dashboards allows oversight and monitoring to move more quickly and gives the ability to focus on areas of concern that matter to stakeholders.

Vulnerability Scanning: Understanding and Interpreting Results

Vulnerability scanning can seem like a daunting task, but protecting the data is of the utmost importance in today’s ever-expanding digital world.

Revolutionizing Conversations: ChatGPT’s Potential Uses and Limitations in Conversational AI

The emergence of conversational AI has heralded a new era in human-computer interaction, transcending the boundaries of what was once thought possible.

Guardians of Progress: The Imperative Role of Human Oversight in AI Development

Human oversight over AI is necessary, including ethical dilemmas, accountability and responsibility concerns, and the complexities of navigating ambiguous scenarios. This oversight promotes an upscaling of existing job markets into supervisory and higher-level roles as AI continues to expand.