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Building real cyber resiliency in government
As agencies take a threat-based approach to security, cloud is also playing a large role in resiliency plans.
When remote doesn’t work
State and local government finance and administrative departments are struggling to support telework.
Location analytics for COVID-safe workplaces
By collecting mobile device unique identifiers and locations anonymously on private Wi-Fi networks, the contact tracing platform can monitor potential COVID exposure and spread.
CIA awards massive cloud contract
The CIA confirmed the award of its Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) contract to roll out new cloud hosting capabilities for the 17 intelligence agencies.
Traffic forecasting for every city?
Using a new transfer learning approach, researchers were able to analyze traffic data from the San Francisco region and forecast traffic flow in the Los Angeles region and vice versa.
Study: The Best—and Worst—State Highway Systems
North Dakota maintained its first-place ranking in the 25th Annual Highway Report, which uses 13 categories to evaluate the condition and cost-effectiveness of state-run highways.
EPA Sets National Recycling Goal at 50% by 2030
To increase the national recycling rate from 32% to 50%, the federal government says steps need to be taken to reduce contamination in the recycling stream and strengthen the market for recycled goods.
Connect2LACity changes a city’s attitudes about working from home
Within a few weeks, 18,000 city employees had secure access to the city’s internal apps and websites through any device.
Fast, accurate disaster recovery delivers access to critical services
Oregon's disaster recovery-as-a-service system ensures eligibility information for critical health and human service programs is accessible in the event of an outage.
NASA’s bot crew streamlines manual processes
NASA Shared Services Center now has 72 bots that are helping the agency reduce labor costs and enhance work quality by eliminating error-prone manual processes.
Super storage for scientific computing
Los Alamos National Laboratory developed systems software elements that use computational storage to achieve orders-of-magnitude performance improvement for scientific data analysis.
Labor’s muscular IT platform primed for pandemic response
The Department of Labor’s IT platform modernization initiative is a muscular aggregation of cloud services, content management, service management, enterprise scanning and data analytics built on an enterprisewide IT backbone.
GSA eases SD-WAN adoption
The General Services Administration has been injecting software-defined wide-area network capabilities into key contracting vehicles and providing guidance on how to use the technology.
Governmentwide payroll services in the cloud
NewPay, the standards-based software-as-a-service platform. aims to create a cloud-based payroll, scheduling and leave system that improves interoperability across agencies.
Cloud-based apportionments management
The Apportionment Manager allows stakeholders to track apportionments through the entire process -- from initial review to final approval -- replacing countless email attachments and paper files and significantly reducing the amount of effort involved in workflow validations.
California’s first responders locate callers faster, more accurately
A cloud-powered, web-based mapping tool harnesses data from Apple and Google to track people within meters of their location.
DRUID expands Army’s development environment
The publicly accessible environment supports cloud-based continuous integration/continuous delivery processes in legacy systems and deployment models.
21 Public Sector Innovation award winners
These projects at the federal, state and local levels show just how transformative government IT can be.
Under Biden, Infrastructure Is Back in Play. But Making a Deal Will Still Be Tough
If Republicans keep control of the Senate, many of the obstacles to a package under President Trump will remain. But advocates along the political spectrum still see hope for a compromise.
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