API opens Medicare claims data
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Blue Button 2.0 application programming interface will allow Medicare beneficiaries to easily download and share their health data.
Smart Cities Council announces challenge winners
The Smart Cities Council has selected five locations as the winners of the 2018 Readiness Challenge.
4 ways agencies can ensure optimal website performance
Cutting-edge technology and industry best practices will ensure agency websites keep constituents satisfied.
DOD developing in-house cloud provisioning system
The Defense Digital Service is building a tool to automate the complex back-end business processes that accompany commercial cloud services.
Mayors Set to Converge on Austin for SXSW
The event provides the local leaders with a forum to dream up what’s next for American cities and towns with tech leaders, futurists and other visionaries.
5G Preemption Is Coming
The streamlined broadband deployment the FCC is contemplating will lessen local control without making rural build-outs more likely.
Gas Tax Hike in an Election Year? It'll Be a Tough Sell in Congress
Despite flickers of bipartisan support for upping fuel taxes, the idea has yet to gain serious momentum.
Predictive analytics for smarter border security
Unisys' LineSight ingests and analyzes high volumes of data from multiple sources to flag potential threats in near real time.
The push to make local justice data shareable
As interest in data-driven analysis increases, counties are working to make their criminal justice data available and interoperable.
Microsoft 365 is coming to the Government cloud
The cloud-based productivity suite will soon be available in the company's dedicated government cloud environments.
Using blockchain to secure the 'internet of things'
Blockchain-based systems that check in for updates would help all IoT manufacturers secure their devices.
As Trump Moves to Erect Trade Barriers, ‘Foreign Trade Zones’ Aim to Take Them Down
There’s little research on whether foreign trade zones help or hurt the economy, or encourage companies to employ more workers than they otherwise would.
Feds Sue to Block California Laws Protecting Immigrants
Xavier Becerra, the state’s attorney general, says he’ll “stay the course and enforce all our laws and protect all our people.”
Some of America’s Worst-Paid Teachers Give Their State a New Ultimatum
STATE AND LOCAL ROUNDUP | New Mexico’s ‘no trespassing’ order for U.S. Border Patrol; opening the door to S.C. reparations; Nashville mayor resigns; and Lake Superior's high water level may hit all-time record.
Homeland Security Wants Industry Input on Wearable Tech for First Responders
Wearables are great—but they can't get in the way when firefighters and paramedics do their jobs.
FEMA Wants Counties to Take Charge of Pre-Disaster Logistics
The agency has its hands full with 21 disasters in 14 states, which means federal assistance may arrive slowly in the event of yet another national emergency.
Utilities Are Paying Their Customers to Buy Electric Vehicles
With few alternatives, utilities are spending their money—and carmakers’ cash—to get people hooked on batteries.
Interior seeks social media management tool
The Department of the Interior wants a tool to help it manage its social media accounts through a single platform.
MilCloud 2.0 gets IL5 authorization
Defense Information Systems Agency has granted DOD Provisional Authorization for Impact Level 5 for CSRA's milCloud 2.0.
Is FirstNet secure enough for law enforcement?
Although California eventually decided to opt into the FirstNet national public-safety wireless broadband network, it raised concerns about the network's compliance with Criminal Justice Information Services requirements.
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