‘Polite’ Michigan City Doesn’t Want to Boast About Its Low-Crime ‘Year of Oddities’
Was it a fluke or something to trumpet? Grand Rapids stays characteristically modest.
New York State’s New 90-Day Email Purge Policy Raises Big Questions Over Transparency
Lawmakers in Albany grill state CIO Maggie Miller, who affirms the Cuomo administration’s controversial guidelines: It’s “consistent with accepted practice.”
States Work to Protect Electric Grid From Solar Storms, Nuclear Threat
A growing number of state legislators are introducing measures aimed at protecting the electric grid from catastrophic events.
NIH dives into cyber-physical systems research
The National Institutes of Health is among several federal agencies offering grants for breakthrough projects showing the integration of computational and physical systems.
Unknown clouds in the government enterprise
A new report finds that employees in the average public sector organization actually use 721 cloud services, which is 10 times more than IT departments expect.
Now that’s persistent: Equation’s firmware threat
An Equation Group threat that uses disk drive firmware to plant malware in systems points to the kind of sophisticated and hard-to-tackle menace that will increasingly be a part of black hat attacks.
DHS casts wide net for future tech
The Department of Homeland Security has launched several programs to engage the public, first responders, industry representatives, academia and government officials in shaping the future of homeland security technology.
Cyclists, Rest Your Weary Limbs on Seattle's First-Ever 'Leaning Rails'
The metal fixtures, already used in European cities, support riders as they wait at intersections.
Using open data to protect food supply
A roundtable discussion at New York University focused on how the Department of Agriculture can improve national food resiliency and protect the food supply through the use of open data.
Arizona ‘City’ With Escaped Llamas Isn’t Actually a Municipality
Sun City doesn’t have a mayor and there’s no local government. But there’s a Sheriff’s Posse and plenty of residents in orange safety vests.
Chattanooga, Tenn., and Wilson, N.C., Celebrate FCC’s Municipal Broadband Ruling
The two cities had petitioned commissioners to block state red tape that limits expansion of high-speed networks built by local governments.
Collaborating to Identify West Virginia Medicaid Patients Who Visit Emergency Rooms
In West Virginia, a public-private partnership is working to deliver preventative care to these patients, allaying the need for future emergency visits.
Local Fire Departments Prepare for Possible Impacts From DHS Showdown in Congress
Federal grant programs could be disrupted by a shutdown and in some cases, that could impact payment of firefighter salaries.
Think fast: Game trains sailors in missile response
Strike Group Defender is the Navy’s first multiplayer, game-based training program to test and evaluate personnel in surface electronic warfare.
Postal Service IG wants more analytics muscle
U.S. Postal Services is looking for advanced analytics technology to help it detect fraud and conduct sensitive audits.
How One County Government Diverts Food Waste to Generate Revenue
“[F]ood scrap collection demonstrates that simple ideas can produce big results,” says one county executive in Maryland.
PlugFest Plus aims to speed tech innovation, acquisition
The Air Force’s PlugFest Plus event adds a contracting component to a technology demonstration.
AppealsTrak helps agencies streamline UI workflow
Bluewolf’s Salesforce-based solution provides an end-to-end management system that helps agencies streamline manual processes associated with administering unemployment insurance.
Young People Are Pulling Jobs Back to City Centers
A new analysis suggests that jobs previously lost to the suburbs are returning to the core.
Will Albuquerque’s Police Problems Arrest Its Economic Aspirations?
New Mexico’s largest city wants to boost its innovation environment. But will negative headlines deter the mayor’s entrepreneurial ambitions?
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