Omar Rafik

Preparing for the Quantum Future: What Agencies Need to Do Now

09/17/25 Fast forward to 2025, and the urgency has only grown. Multiple U.S. federal agencies, along with leading universities and private-sector research labs, are running quantum…

Three Ways Educational Institutions Can Better Plan for Continuous Learning

09/02/22 If we’ve learned anything from the past few years, it’s the routines we used to consider normal—like being able to walk onto a college campus and attend class in-person ea…

Three Ways to Prepare Your Agency for a Modernized Digital Verification System

08/31/22 Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation for states to develop highly secure, interoperable systems enabling digital identity verification. Acco…

Four Ways State and Local Governments Can Effectively Use Pandemic Relief Funds

08/24/22 Last March, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act was passed for pandemic relief, with $350 billion of the money dedicated to state and local agencies as a part of th…

3 Ways Educational Institutions Can Avoid IT Tool Sprawl

07/29/22 As more and more money enters the state and local government budgets from pandemic relief funds like The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program,…