Rohit Gupta is CEO of Aretum As a hard-core technologist with a Computer Science background as well as a Government Contracting Services CEO, I am fortunate to keep in touch with many emerging technologies being used in both commercial and government organizations. There are many areas of the Federal Government operational space that are using new technologies. If you exclude AI-based modernization advancements and fairly common ones like cloud computing, microservices, zero trust architecture and no/low-code platforms, I believe there are still a number of technology categories that are quietly changing how software delivery organizations, security teams, and mission-focused organizations operate. Public sector missions cover many areas including civilian government, defense, intelligence, public safety, and even critical infrastructure related to energy, water, and transportation, so the applicability of new technologies is fairly broad. Many areas outside of AI are driving significant investment because they improve the government agencies’ resilience, speed, compliance, and operational effectiveness, and save taxpayer money without sacrificing mission goals. Modernization is really the common thread across many of these technologies. Government agencies rarely modernize just to adopt a new tool—they modernize to improve agility, security, resilience, and maintainability. Some technologies I will talk about in this article are foundational to modernization, while others are enabling capabilities. Across government, modernization efforts increasingly emphasize outcomes rather than technology adoption for its own sake. Common outcome improvements that Federal Government CIOs and CTOs look for include faster delivery of software and digital services, reduced technical debt, improved cybersecurity and compliance and greater operational resilience. Some of the areas that both Aretum and I have seen improvements through the use of modern technologies include: Platform Engineering – this is where internal developer platforms have replaced ad hoc DevOps and DevSecOps work. Modernization in Platform Engineering increasingly means moving the organization’s approach