The Infrastructure Bill Needs a Makeover, Not a 'Spineless Rubber Stamp'
The U.S. Senate's bill falls short in several ways and needs to be fixed before it is passed by Congress, according to a Maryland mayor.
Poll: Americans Increasingly View Internet as a ‘Basic Necessity’
A survey by Consumer Reports shows that 75% of U.S. residents support local governments building out public nextworks.
New York, Argonne model climate-change impact on power grid
The project will deliver very specific climate predictions that will help officials understand vulnerabilities in the New York Power Authority’s grid to future climate impacts.
Wisconsin clears UI backlog with cloud-based AI
Working with Google Cloud, the state was able to clear its bottleneck of unemployment insurance claims, leverage predictive analytics to speed response time and screen out fraudulent claims.
Using ARPA funds to build a technology foundation that supports recovery
Using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to modernize legacy systems by moving to the cloud and expanding workforce and analytics tools, agencies can expedite pandemic recovery while forging a strategic path to long-term benefits and overall service improvements.
US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
The lasting problems of infrastructure aren’t of need or construction, but of overbuilding, delayed costs and the challenges of thinking ahead.
Biden Won Over Mitch McConnell. Now He Needs AOC.
The president won’t be able to celebrate the Senate’s bipartisan passage of an infrastructure bill until Democrats deliver the rest of his economic agenda this fall.
Infrastructure delivers autonomous edge solutions
The Texas Military Department is testing Public Infrastructure Network Nodes that incorporate 5G, edge computing, radar, lidar, enhanced GPS and intelligent transportation systems into one system.
State seeks application cloud solution for citizen programmers
The State Department is looking to migrate its legacy applications to an application platform as a service solution.
From terabytes to exabytes: Supporting AI and ML with object storage
While object storage is a common solution for cold storage, recent advances make it ideal for artificial intelligence applications, which require higher performance storage.
The Infrastructure Bill Promises Construction Work. One Amendment Could Open That Up to More Women.
A proposed amendment would give women and people of color more access to skilled trades and the wages they bring.
How today’s secure web gateways enable essential work
A modern, cloud-based secure web gateway can be a vital element in a proactive security strategy -- provided it has evolved to deliver the necessary agility and protection.
Infrastructure Bill Falls Billions Short on Funding to Replace Lead Pipes
Local leaders and water advocates say up to $60 billion is needed to clean up the dangerous national drinking water pipe problem but the infrastructure package provides only about $15 billion.
How the State Department can overcome the trade-offs of its multicloud strategy
By sharpening their skills and adopting new tools designed for the complexities of hybrid environments, agencies can transform their operating model and do more with less -- without the trade-offs.
Cloud-based video redaction saves valuable staff time
The Eureka, Calif., Police Department uses a cloud- and artificial intelligence-based system to quickly find faces, license plates and computer screens that need to be redacted.
A need for speed: Why data at the edge is the ultimate modernizer
As the network edge becomes more substantial, speed and flexibility are differentiators for data delivery.
Chattanooga to build testbed service for smart city research
Built atop its Smart Corridor infrastructure, the testbed as a service will allow researchers to access and test algorithms using data from the city’s connected urban environment.
NSA, CISA issue Kubernetes security guidance
A new report, “Kubernetes Hardening Guidance,” details threats to the container orchestration environment and provides configuration guidance to minimize risk.
Work from home and cloud are prompting hard looks at security
Cloud computing and telework environments add considerable complexity to good security strategies, so agencies should look to multifactor authentication and cloud-based access policies.
Reversing Transit's Ridership Decline Could Advance Equity and Sustainability
COMMENTARY | Communities where transit use is growing prioritize accessibility and concentrate land-use development around transit service.
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