IBM extends Smarter City Challenge
Building on four years of helping cities improve services, IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge invites local governments to apply for assistance from problem-solving teams.
Sowing the Internet of Things into agriculture
The National Agricultural Statistics Service wants to use the Internet of Things to glean data from sensors on farm machinery in an effort to boost precision agriculture.
Uber to open its data to Boston transit planners
Uber will provide Boston with trip data from its quarterly logs to help the city improve transportation practices.
Low-tech sectors to see more IT spending
A recent report from Onvia details areas where IT is growing in state and local governments while technology investment growth has stalled elsewhere.
5 trends that will drive IT management in 2015
2015 is shaping up as a year when data analytics, ubiquitous video, and cyber forensics will force government IT managers to make decisions about how they deploy their resources.
Cloud ‘Commons’ would accelerate biomedical research
The National Institutes of Health is supporting the launch of an electronic “Commons,” a shared cloud and high-performance computing ecosystem to support the biomedical research community.
A network for the Internet of (moving) Things
Veniam’s networking service not only collects data from sensors – whether stationary or deployed on fleets of vehicles – but also delivers Wi-Fi connectivity to those within range of the vehicles.
Argonne sets new marks for high-speed data transfer
Argonne National Laboratory researchers moved 65 terabytes of data between storage centers in Ottawa and New Orleans in under 100 minutes.
Police body cameras are only one piece of the video equation
A federal initiative to help departments purchase 50,000 body cameras for police in the wake of recent high-profile incidents of police violence is only the first step in creating a full video system. Departments will have to store and manage terabytes of data for years, sometimes decades.
How will you manage big (and bigger) data in 2015?
Government IT departments will increasingly turn to data warehouse augmentation tools and tactics in 2015 to address their big data management challenges.
How science is cutting big data down to size
Researchers are developing set of data management tools that could be used across the scientific community.
VA recruits Watson analytics, cloud to fight PTSD
Veterans Affairs launches a pilot project to test uses of IBM Watson analytics to help doctors sift electronic medical records to support clinical decision-making in treating PTSD.
GSA's wish list for leading edge tech
The General Services Administration has created a list of developing technologies that could be incorporated into GSA's Alliant I and Alliant II government-wide acquisition contracts.
Lockheed lifts Map of the World to AWS commercial cloud
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency launched its Map of the World within Amazon Web Services’ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment.
NSA releases open source tool for high-volume data flows
The National Security Agency released an open source software product that automates data flows among multiple computer networks, even when data formats and protocols differ.
Look for more attacks coming from privileged accounts
A recent survey claims that most, if not all, of the rise in sophisticated, targeted attacks from the outside is due to exploitation of privileged accounts.
After 25 years, Census TIGER data still in demand
Developed for the 1990 population count, the Census Bureau’s TIGER data sets are still in demand as geospatial base data for new government and commercial mapping programs and applications.
NGA on campaign to expand Map of the World
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded 10 contracts this year in a $1.1 billion drive to expand its geospatial resources and build a one-stop shop for data and apps for the military and intelligence communities.
Battlespace awareness through big data
The Navy and Esri are combining the massive amounts of data available from satellite and other remote-sensing platforms with the analytic tools of geospatial information systems.
Geospatial tool tests for energy cost sweet spots
The FEMP Screening Map, developed by Energy Department researchers, combines big data and geospatial technology to determine whether renewable energy projects are cost-effective.
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