Solar Eclipse Watchers May Overwhelm Small Oregon Towns
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California’s Plan to Tax Rockets by the Mile Is Exactly What Space Companies Want
After 62 miles, the companies are deemed to be in space, and would not incur further taxes.
Mayors Are Launching Task Force to Weigh In on Trump’s Pending Infrastructure Plan
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will chair the group.
License to Speak: Bureaucracies Can Be Slow to Internalize Bad News
The state of Oregon is abusing its authority to regulate professional services to silence its critics.
A New Kind of Park Along Memphis’ Waterfront
RiverPlay highlights the city’s effort to connect its civic assets to promote integration.
How to implement enterprise-to-cloud security
Placed between cloud service providers and users, cloud access security broker solutions enforce an enterprise’s security policies.
Warfighter health monitoring via smartphone sensors
DARPA wants a way to keep tabs on the health of warfighters to ensure readiness, identify weaknesses early and avert compromises to missions.
IBM powers up new data centers
IBM is beefing up its cloud data center capacity to meet demand for cloud infrastructure and accommodate internet-of-things, blockchain and quantum computing applications.
App spots fake IDs
The app compares barcodes on the back of driver’s licenses to a database of such codes from every U.S. state.
NASA crowdsources rocket science software tune up
The FUN3D software that aviation researchers use for computational fluid dynamics modeling needs a tune up so that the supercomputer it runs on can process it more quickly.
Following AHCA Vote Fiscal Uncertainty for State and Local Governments Continues
The legislation raises questions about future federal funding commitments for Medicaid, which represents roughly one-third of state budgets.
The State and Local Cyber Threat Landscape in Two Reports
Verizon and Symantec’s breach investigations signal that governments are growing targets, and small jurisdictions lacking resources are the most vulnerable.
Uncovering insights in IT spending
Technology business management tools can help agencies maximize their IT investments.
House Narrowly Passes Republican Health Care Bill
What's in the bill, and how will it affect state and local governments?
FedRAMP Connect puts 7 CSPs in fast lane
FedRAMP Connect, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s plan for prioritizing vendors for a provisional authority to operate, has selected seven cloud service providers to work with the Joint Authorization Board on authorization.
VA enlists Energy’s super powers for health research
The VA-DOE Big Data Science Initiative joins the forces of Energy’s national lab system and the VA’s Million Veteran Program’s digital health and genomic data to advance health care and drive next-generation supercomputing designs.
Eye-tracking tech helps CBP detect imposters
Eye-dentify tracks trainees’ eye movements during imposter detection training so instructors can provide immediate feedback on agents' performance.
Message growing clearer to agencies on collaboration apps
To extract the full productivity benefit from collaboration apps, make sure they include features that encourage workers to use and derive value from them.
Report: When States and Localities Work With ICE, U.S. Citizens Suffer
The Urban Institute has a new data tool showing trends in immigration policies across states over time.
Survey Finds Frayed Relations in Michigan Between Local Governments and State
The latest Michigan Public Policy Survey included responses from local government officials from 1,315 jurisdictions in the Great Lakes State.
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