Post-Sochi Cost-Cutting Sparks Interest for Potential U.S. Winter Olympic Bids
Denver and Salt Lake City are interested in hosting future games. But Boston’s candidacy to host the 2024 Summer Games is a wild card.
5 ways to maintain a high-performance app stack
Today’s IT landscape has become a complex mishmash of end-user devices, connectivity methods and siloed IT; its simplification lies in monitoring all applications as a single ecosystem.
Food safety agency plans online services to streamline press, public notice distribution
The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service wants to upgrade its system to distribute publications in print and online.
FWHA seeks no-cost cloud for transportation data
Federal Highway Administration is looking for partners who can provide a no-cost option for transforming its datasets into an easy access, cloud-based format.
Mobilizing government: Agencies struggle to move beyond strategy
All 24 agencies required to comply with the Digital Government Strategy have made efforts to improve their mobile digital services, but so far much of the work has been in planning rather than execution.
The Radical Efficiency of the Pot Vending Machine
Seattle just got a new kind of marijuana dispensary—the result not just of changing laws, but of technological progress.
‘Igniting Innovation’ Puts Public Sector Projects in ‘Shark Tank’-like Contest
Utah hunting licensing app entry one of a handful of state and local finalists competing in D.C.
With New Mobile Apps, States Engage Citizens Via Smartphone
Many states are redoubling their efforts to make government more accessible and responsive to citizens on-the-go.
IoT apps coming to a city near you
More than 30 teams are participating in the Global City Teams Challenge, pursuing projects related to integrating the Internet of Things into public safety, energy and transportation applications.
VA wants SIEM as a service
The Veterans Affairs Department is gathering information on acquiring a security incident event management service to help it manage the entire VA cybersecurity enterprise.
CyberGIS: infrastructure for massive geospatial data, processes
CyberGIS is a geospatial-specific infrastructure that manages, processes and visualizes massive and complex geospatial data, while performing associated analysis and simulation.
DHS tests RF interference to improve emergency comm
The Department of Homeland Security and Mercer University partnered to test disruptions in the electromagnetic spectrum in order to improve first responder mobile communications.
Improving President Obama’s P3 Proposal
Could infrastructure “recycling” deals raise $500 billion for improvements?
Boston Activates a New Snow-Removal Tracking Tool
Mayor Marty Walsh: ‘Snow Stats brings the people of Boston closer to municipal government.’
A 30-Year Plan for U.S. Transportation Summed Up by One Word: Choice
With "Beyond Traffic," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pivots U.S. policy away from cars and toward multimodal options.
The Infuriating Lottery of Healthcare Prices
Even within a single state, the cost of an MRI might vary by hundreds of dollars.
1 Person Bitten as Rattlesnakes Take Over Texas State Capitol
The reptiles make their presence known in Austin every year.
Pittsburgh’s Innovation Profile Boosted by Uber’s CMU Robotics Partnership
Move comes just as Google looks to develop a competing service.
U.S. organizations say a third of their data is bad
A global study discovers that organizations suffer from three common data quality errors: incomplete or missing data, outdated information and inaccurate data.
CDM Phase 2: How to avoid déjà vu all over again
As agencies prepare to take up the Phase 2 of DHS’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, they would do well to replay its initial gap assessment to get the program right.
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