NOAA charts course toward open nautical data
This summer, NOAA's Coast Survey office plans to offer a new service that will make it easier for application developers to use NOAA charts in their products.
Smart cloud helps cities manage events, services
Delivered in the IBM SmartCloud, the Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) helps users monitor citywide operations by collecting, visualizing and analyzing operational data from multiple sources.
A Great Place to Put Community Health Clinics: Fire Stations
A new firehouse clinic in California shows how an abundant but under-used public resource—fire stations—can be made even more useful for a community.
The Three Kinds of Women, According to Marion Barry
The former D.C. mayor says what he's done for women's rights is "incredible" and "trailblazing." Don't believe it.
Successful software projects are no accident
Best-in-class government IT projects share common traits that agencies can use to ensure success.
Los Angeles County opts for Office 365
More than 120,000 county and law enforcement staff in Los Angeles County will migrate to Office 365 as part of an agreement that will also consolidate 15 department contracts into one.
NuCivic launches 'truly' open SaaS, open data platform
The Drupal-based NuData open-source, open data platform aims to help governments comply with open data mandates and help developers build businesses based on government data.
Device authentication tool helps detect tax fraudsters
Experian's Tax Return Analysis Platform goes beyond identity verification to offer device-proofing, catching fraud before refunds are processed.
NASA launches challenges using OpenNEX data
The open data challenges will use the Open NASA Earth Exchange (OpenNEX), an Amazon Web Services data and supercomputing platform where users can share knowledge and expertise.
FCC tackles data mobility across 200 legacy systems
The Federal Communications Commission wants to ensure efforts now underway to redesign hundreds of legacy systems will support data mobility.
HHS and health care sector expand cybersecurity info sharing
The Computer Security Incident Response Center, the centerpiece of HHS's cybersecurity program, helps provide situational awareness across the enterprise and strengthens functional relationships within the health care community that it oversees to help improve security.
U.C. San Diego researchers build tool to help secure IoT
A group of computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a tool that lets designers and system builders test embedded hardware security, a first in the field.
Smaller Toughpads get voice connectivity
Panasonic announced two fully rugged, 5-inch enterprise-class handheld tablets for mobile professionals.
Science DMZ: faster, more secure high-performance computing
Built near the network perimeter, a Science DMZ is a portion of the network optimized for high-performance scientific applications rather than for general-purpose business systems.
How Denver Is Becoming the Most Advanced Transit City in the West
But the key question remains: Will metro residents give up their cars?
Chicago Gets a New Surveillance System Straight Out of a Video Game
By the end of the 2014, Chicago will have as many as fifty sensors on light poles, tracking everything from humidity and air quality to noise level.
Online Gambling Revenues Fall Short
The expectations of leaders in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey have not been met.
Miniature radar may put UAVs in the air
Researchers at the University of Denver's Unmanned Systems Research Institute have developed 'sense and avoid' technology for unmanned aerial vehicles – a phased-array radar system that weighs only 12 ounces.
Commerce secretary pledges full embrace of open data
The Commerce Department's acting deputy secretary pledges to put more useful data into the hands of business and industry.
For some small towns, public safety means IT consolidation
Pressures on local governments to cut costs means that maintaining emergency and public safety services depends on consolidating or sharing IT and emergency operations centers.
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