County’s cloud boosts capacity planning, flattens spending variations
To “pause the bleed of growth” at the California county’s 40-plus departments, the CIO’s office set up a central cloud platform to help it broker IT resources.
How states can avoid New Jersey’s legacy systems meltdown
States must get ahead of potential pitfalls in their legacy systems and deliver key systems and agile services that citizens can rely on.
Bmore Responsive: Home-grown emergency response coordination
Working with the local Code for America brigade, Baltimore’s Health Department built a new contact management system that saves hundreds of hours when checking in on senior care centers during emergencies.
Famed spy plane gets AI upgrade via Kubernetes
The Air Force has equipped a legacy U-2 surveillance aircraft with machine learning thanks to Kubernetes, an open-source container-orchestration system that automates the application deployment, scaling and management.
Cloud complexity may hinder transformation
As a cloud project gets more sophisticated, the complexity can sometimes become a challenge, a new survey finds.
Opening the Library of Congress to cloud-based computational research
LOC is looking for researchers to experiment with the tools, cost structures and technologies that will make its massive collections widely available to data-driven research.
Timing the leap from cutting-edge to LPTA technology
Mid- to long-term strategic planning must keep moving ahead, factoring in which emerging technologies will soon become lowest-price technically-acceptable commodities.
One-Year Federal Transportation Funding Measure Approved
STATE AND LOCAL NEWS ROUNDUP | Utah audit questions coronavirus spending … Colorado officials worried about declining school enrollment … Iowa expects a $306 million budget surplus.
Los Alamos unwraps next-gen supercomputer
Crossroads will replace the existing Trinity supercomputer and will be used by scientists to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program.
PPP taps cloud for loan forgiveness
The Small Business Administration is using a commercial cloud service for its Paycheck Protection Program loan-forgiveness processing, but lawmakers are concerned about tech glitches.
Homes Are Flooding Outside FEMA’s 100-Year Flood Zones and Racial Inequality Is Showing Through
COMMENTARY | New risk models show nearly twice as many properties are at risk from a 100-year flood today than the government's flood maps indicate.
Army signs 70+ bases up for FirstNet
With FirstNet, the Army’s Installation Management Command will ensure installations have communications capabilities during emergencies and resolve interoperability and coordination issues between base security forces and local first responders.
Digital technologies will help build resilient communities after the coronavirus pandemic
In the midst of a maelstrom, inexpensive, readily available digital technologies -- among them social media, mobile apps, analytics and cloud computing -- help communities cope with the pandemic and learn crucial lessons.
6 tactics for agile, proactive network modernization
As agencies network modernize their networks, they need both visibility and agility to adapt to changing demands.
How zero-trust network access secures remote work environments
As federal agencies continue to ingest data and expand their information systems across diverging cloud platforms, unified context-aware technologies will help protect individual information resources.
NARA expects multicloud strategy to ease records transfer
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to adopt a multicloud strategy to more easily accommodate storing the digital records it receives from other federal agencies.
OPM’s DIY COVID dashboard
Using open source data and a custom-developed Python application, developers built an easy-to-use, automatically-updating dashboard.
In Slumping Energy States, Plugging Abandoned Wells Could Provide an Economic Boost
North Dakota may be the only state using CARES Act money to plug abandoned oil wells.
DISA wants ideas on dynamic spectrum sharing
The Defense Information Systems Agency is asking industry for ideas on how best to share its spectrum with both military and civilian users.
Oregon Expects Reopening and Repairing Roads Damaged by Wildfires Will Take Months
Over 200 miles of Oregon roads were closed as of last week due to the catastrophic blazes. The state’s transportation department is dealing with problems like hazardous trees and rockslide risks.
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