By Kate R. The U.S. Department of State Consular Affairs (CA) division’s public-facing systems service approximately 34 million routine applicants per year for various passport and visa requests. This is a 24/7/365 operation processing approximately 120,000 cases per day. Before the implementation of the Online Passport Renewal (OPR) capability, the turnaround time for a standard… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: December 2021
The Future of Human-Technology Convergence
By Jeff A. Long before the current COVID-19 paradigm shift in how and where people work, the two dominant technology trends were Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). These technologies evolved rapidly from the conceptual stage and fueled the current focus on Digital Transformation and Industrial Automation with companies such as Amazon and… Read more »
Containerization in the Cloud
By Jeremy L. Major companies and government agencies that have already moved into the Cloud are looking for ways to continue to modernize their infrastructure. As they do, they start looking at containers. ActioNet has been able to assist many of these organizations in accomplishing this correctly and securely. This article describes what containers in… Read more »