National lab shops for wearable gear for first responders
The Pacific Northwest National Lab is looking for organizations to partner with to create wearable advanced communications devices for emergency responders.
Autonomic Resources offers agencies a self-service cloud platform
ARC-P On Premise provides departments and agencies a self-service cloud platform for infrastructure management inside the agency security boundary.
Oracle Key Vault helps customers manage encryption keys
A new software appliance is designed to manage encryption keys and credential files securely in an enterprise data center.
FCC sets timetable for text-to-911
The Federal Communication Commission’s new rules will ensure that all remaining wireless carriers and certain IP-based text application providers are prepared to support text-to-911 by the end of the year.
ManTech upgrades enterprise malware defense platform
ManTech updated its Active Defense endpoint malware protection platform to better streamline detection and incident response.
Ohio moves on statewide IT consolidation
The state has funded a governmentwide IT consolidation that would centralize 9,000 servers and 30 smaller data centers across 26 state agencies
University of Maryland opens UAS test site
The University of Maryland has launched an unmanned aircraft systems test site in southern Maryland that will bring together leaders in academia, industry and government to accelerate UAS research.
Wanted: Innovation fellows for San Francisco
The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation has openings for two new Mayor’s Innovation Fellows.
Researchers to test modular cloud cybersecurity
The Modular Approach to Cloud Security project will build a secure cloud from individual, secure components so that the security of the system as a whole will be derived from the security of its parts.
GIS app streamlines easement clearings
A team from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., utility department developed an app that speeds up easement clearing – and saves costs.
Researchers demo elastic cloud-to-cloud networking
Funded by DARPA's CORONET program, the new prototype drastically reduces time to set up a cloud-to-cloud high-speed network through a service provider from days into seconds.
5 DARPA projects to break the military's dependence on GPS
DARA is backing development of systems that could provide geospatial data to troops when and where GPS is not an option.
Tech resources pledged to support Climate Data Initiative
In support of White House Climate Data Initiative, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Esri and others are donating computing resources to support research into strengthening the global food system in a changing climate.
VDI eases state and local agencies' foray into mobility
A new survey from the Mobile Work exchange found that while mobile use is growing in state and local government agencies, barriers still exist to wider implementation.
Georgia Tech develops early warning system for cyberthreats
BlackForest, an open source intelligence gathering system, aims to give cybersecurity teams advance warning of pending attacks.
County sets up next-generation 911 network
Morgan County, Ohio, launched an emergency 911 system incorporating new standards for transmitting emergency calls over a wide range of IP formats.
State Department wants a website for country performance analytics
The State Department wants to build a web-based databank of foreign countries' performance indicators to be used for data-driven problem solving.
Big Switch expands hyperscale SDN, inks deal with In-Q-Tel
Big Switch Networks introduced its Big Cloud Fabric, a data center switching fabric that combines the operational advantages of SDN software with the economics of bare metal switch hardware.
CalCloud to streamline California's IT
The state of California and IBM will offer its state and local agencies a set of public, private and hybrid cloud-based infrastructure services designed to cut costs and pinpoint requirements.
DC commits to transparency with FOIA portal and open data policies
Washington, D.C., announced a new online system for submitting and processing Freedom of Information Act requests to District agencies and new policies on transparency, open government and open data.
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