State and Local Leaders Form New Group to Tackle Broadband Gaps
Members of the NewDEAL Forum launched the task force this week. It’ll focus on issues like expanding high-speed internet access in rural areas and improving affordability.
Who are you? Rising to the data protection challenge
Mainframes allow agencies to implement zero trust, multifactor authentication and privileged user access as standard practices, without requiring additional capacity.
Communications board digs into Christmas bombing outage
In the wake of the Nashville Christmas bombing that disrupted regional telecom service, the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board has been working with AT&T to ensure a more resilient 911 network.
Post-pandemic telework infrastructure
With a year of remote experience and the prospect of hybrid operations on the horizon, IT leaders are drafting plans for long-term secure access and more effective collaboration.
Microsoft, Ball Aerospace show satellites can connect cloud services to the battlefield
Commercial cloud computing can be used to process and securely deliver actionable information from low-Earth orbit satellites to military ground stations, command centers or direct to warfighters on the battlefield.
What Bike and Pedestrian Advocates Say is Missing From the Senate Roads Bill
The $304 billion draft legislation includes policies they wanted, but a major new grant program was left out and one group sees deeper flaws. Amendments are set to be considered this week.
GOP Governors' Cutoff of COVID Benefits Hits Hard in Rural America
Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte announced this month that his state will no longer accept the $300 federal unemployment benefits put in place during the pandemic.
Who will pay for the cyber EO mandates?
New marching orders for agencies and technology vendors in the Biden administration's new cybersecurity policy need to be supported in the budget, industry reps say.
The future of government service delivery is already here
Citizens will expect the comforts and conveniences of virtual appointments and a world without waiting in line to remain even after the pandemic subsides..
Senate Lawmakers Release $304B Bipartisan Roads Proposal
The draft legislation includes new grant funding for areas like electric vehicle infrastructure and rural projects. It comes as the White House struggles to win over Republican support for a much broader infrastructure package.
How Much Will it Cost to Replace All Lead Water Pipes in the U.S.?
The initial price is high, but the public health and economic benefits outweigh the costs in the long run, according to research by the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution.
Pandemic-stricken Mass Transit Would Get $85 billion In Biden Stimulus Plan – a Down Payment on Reviving American Cities
COMMENTARY | New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority was hit hard by a 79% ridership reduction during the pandemic. It needs an extra $8 billion through 2024 to avoid service cuts and layoffs.
Turning pictures of buildings into better disaster preparedness
Scientists are using data from Google Maps and satellite images in artificial intelligence applications that can automatically identify characteristics of city’s buildings that would be vulnerable in a natural disaster.
Why now is the right time for an open-source serverless strategy
In today’s cloud-based, data-intensive, event-driven world, open-source serverless technologies offer an ideal complement to modern application development.
5G infrastructure faces foundational threats
Open policies and standards, a protected supply chain and a secure systems architecture can help limit vulnerabilities in 5G networks, according to a new government report.
Huawei cloud, services gain toehold in developing countries
A May 17 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies identified 70 deals in 41 countries between Huawei and foreign governments or state-owned enterprises.
Data virtualization helps agencies realize Federal Data Strategy goals
A logical data fabric can help government agencies to glean immediate, actionable intelligence from their data, securely share it and leverage it to enable information flexibility and agility.
GSA plans new cloud BPA for all levels of government
The General Services Administration is considering a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement that would make cloud infrastructure, storage, software and services available to federal agencies and state, local and tribal governments.
In search of better legacy code migration
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants ways to not only automate migrating legacy C/C++ code to safer programming languages, but also ensure the code takes the fullest possible advantage of the target languages' security features.
Oklahoma cuts phishing threats with cloud-based email gateway
A cloud-based secure email gateway has helped the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services decrease the threat from inbound malware messages.
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