With New Funding Elusive, a Governor Turns to Planning to Address Flood Hazards
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf outlined a three-pronged initiative this week. “It’s the best we can do right now,” he said.
Electric Cargo Bikes Are Debuting in City Fleets
Under a pilot program, parks employees in Portland, Oregon will conduct trail maintenance using zero-emission bikes that were specifically designed for municipal employees.
Traffic estimation tool makes predictions from sparse public data
TranSEC delivers real-time estimations of street-level traffic that engineers can use to manage citywide traffic flow.
How infrastructure as code can help deliver next-level digital transformation
IaC allows agencies to develop, deploy and scale applications at greater speed with fewer risks and reduced costs.
Maximizing a vaccine campaign by analyzing social interactions
Researchers have developed an algorithm that may optimize vaccine distribution by targeting the people that have the maximum reachability into their social network.
Lawmakers Want Data to Decide the Future of America’s Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
New legislation would launch a $10 million grant program to set the scene for what’s to come on the EV-use landscape.
Digitizing licensing and permitting a win-win for local governments and constituents
Digital-first solutions can boost local governments' revenue, foster community development and improve overall user experience.
DOD’s ‘virtual hospital’ features remote-controlled IVs, ventilators
To expand its range of telehealth services to COVID patients, the Defense Department wants to incorporate “virtual hospital” capabilities -- including interoperable, autonomous and remote-controlled medical devices -- into its cloud-based platforms.
County’s telework success built on cloud foundation
When King County’s work-from-home orders went out March 3, employees were already accustomed to using Office 365 to work onsite, in the field or at home and to access all their files and get email phone calls.
FedRAMP transitioning to meet latest NIST controls
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program is updating its materials to align with the latest cloud security guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
San Francisco and D.C. Transit Agencies Consider Big Layoffs, Service Cuts
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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.
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