Leveraging City Infrastructure for the Digital Age
LED fixtures with microphones, vibration sensors, public Wi-Fi capabilities, cameras and other sensors are the right, open common digital infrastructure to enable a nervous system for a city or enterprise.
Sharing data both down the hall and across the state
With the launch of a new data sharing service, state and local public safety and judicial agencies will be able to share data and communicate within and across jurisdictions.
100 Resilient Cities Adds 37 New Member Municipalities
The global network helps cities hire chief resilience officers and access partner support for projects meant to prepare local governments for challenges like climate change.
Route Fifty Roadmap: Michigan’s Official Guide to Driving Around a Roundabout
Navigating these traffic junctions is so important, the state put a how-to guide on the official roadmap.
Government Agencies Continue Their Shift to Hybrid IT, But Few Will Go All In
Security concerns, lacking skills, budget constraints and legacy systems all impose barriers to a complete migration to the cloud.
Looking at Transportation Funding Beyond the Gas Tax
Infrastructure Week discussions delved into options for offsetting declines in gasoline and diesel tax revenues. Is taxing vehicle mileage the answer?
EPA looks to improve data aggregation with APIs
Application programming interfaces can help improve data access and quality alike, the Environmental Protection Agency's chief data scientist says.
How Cities Are Leading the Way on Infrastructure Innovation
“While states weren’t looking, our cities became better governed, better managed places,” said Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore.
State and Local Officials to Capitol Hill: Leave the Muni Bond Tax Break Untouched
At an Infrastructure Week discussion, leaders from around the country touted benefits, they say, the income tax exemption for municipal bonds provides for their jurisdictions.
Tips for controlling cloud migration costs
With a close look at applications and licensing agreements, agencies can reduce the cost of a cloud rollout.
Metro-North Fire Strands Thousands in N.Y.C.; Illinoisans’ Photos to Be Sent to Federal Facial Recognition Database
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: FEMA wants $35 million back from Florida localities; congressional Republicans really don’t like D.C. ‘budget autonomy’; and Santa Monica’s ‘secret sauce’ to making light rail profitable.
The case for disappearing desktops
Workspace-as-a-service platforms that incorporate desktop virtualization features are among the latest technologies to support the burgeoning government mobile workforce.
Tool helps track data center optimization
A new module to Nlyte Software’s data center infrastructure management solution simplifies the process for reporting and validating the optimization process.
Next Generation of Transportation Disruption Will Have ‘Impacts That We Can’t Fully Anticipate’
“I think our roles as infrastructure providers are going to change significantly,” the Utah Department of Transportation’s director said at an Infrastructure Week event in the nation’s capital.
What agencies need to know when working with a FedRAMP-approved vendor
Agencies are responsible for three broad areas of compliance: user management, privacy and training.
NOAA weather prediction model goes 4-D
With its new supercomputers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boosts the power of its Global Forecast System.
DISA maps out milCloud 2.0
A commercial provider will provide an on-premise private cloud for the next version of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s cloud environment.
Louisiana moves levee inspection to the cloud and saves
When a custom-built application began to fail, levee inspections moved to TerraGo’s Edge, a cloud-based subscription mapping and forms service.
Scott stresses the IT changes a $3.1B revolving fund could bring
Federal CIO Tony Scott said the proposed $3.1 billion IT Modernization Fund could help agencies migrate from legacy systems to shared cloud services.
San José Wants Local Innovators to Create Graffiti-Removal Device
Faster removal of visual blight for less money is the goal of a new competition open to entrepreneurs and students.
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