Harden cybersecurity through process improvement

Organization and project team to-dos for compliance and accreditation Cybersecurity is one of the most prominent risk factors for commercial companies, government agencies, and individual users of systems and services1. This is partly because cybersecurity faces multiple risk vectors such as ins...

Cloud-Native Data Management Solutions

This article is part two in a series on data management focusing on cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud for our government customers working to derive more value at scale and increased speed from their data operations. The business case for going cloud native Organizations that choose to com...

Data Management Cloud Design Patterns for Cloud Ecosystems

This article is part one in a series on data management focusing on cloud, hybrid cloud, and community cloud for our government customers working to derive more value at scale and increased speed from their data sources. The data management challenge The advent of cloud computing and access con...

Unlocking the Black Box

While the summer interns demystify the black box of AI/ML, we look at the "black box" that is NT Concepts' internship program A black box is defined as anything that has mysterious or unknown internal functions or mechanisms. This summer, our 2022 NT Concept data science interns dove into the “B...

Let’s Bring More Veterans into Tech

On this Veterans Day, NT Concepts would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all service members, both past and present. Veterans Day is an important time for all of us to take a moment, pause, and reflect on everything veterans have given to the United States. This year, we would like to focu...

How to Talk Data Readiness

Rapid evolution and advancement of technology demand federal agencies adapt, shift, and change their data strategies or plans of action. Embracing disruption is key to recognizing and implementing these transforming technologies. The latest industry trend is to utilize the vast amount of data a...

Developing AI/ML-enabling Ecosystems

“DOD points to ride-sharing service Uber as an analogy to describe its desired end state for JADC2. Uber combines two different apps—one for riders and a second for drivers. Using the respective users’ positions, the Uber algorithm determines the optimal match based on distance, travel time, an...

Juneteenth: Freedom for All Americans

Juneteenth: June 19, 1865. What is this? Is this a national holiday? What is the significance of this day? Let me tell you about this important day and why it is vital to me. I will start by clearing up a misconception that some people may have. No, slavery was not abolished on this day. Slave...

This Memorial Day, Celebrate through Contribution

In the spring of 1915, following the Second Battle of Ypres, Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was tending to the wounded and noticed a brilliant red patch of poppies blooming in the freshly broken soil of the battlefield. Amidst the carnage of a battle that claimed over 120,000 lives and...