Artificial Intelligence
The Pentagon’s AI Factory Gets a Powerful New Tool
The Joint Common Foundation aims to help the Department to standardize and secure its data and make it easier to find.
Ideas
Political Trolls Adapt, Create Material to Deceive and Confuse the Public
What they posted shifted over time.
Ideas
4 Tips to Help Kids to Cope with COVID-19 Anxiety
As children go through this crisis, they don’t have to be afraid.
Policy
CBP Shifts to Enterprise Approach to Manage Phone Searches at U.S. Borders
The agency uses metadata to create a system of record for electronic device searches but agents may be able to access information irrelevant to their cases.
Ideas
Wearable Fitness Devices Deliver Early Warning of Possible COVID-19 Infection
Several studies are testing algorithms that assess data from wearable devices to detect COVID-19.
Artificial Intelligence
How Agencies Can Tackle Tech Talent Gaps
Strong brands and room for risk might pay off where government salaries don’t, federal officials said.
Ideas
Does Your Agency Pass the Telework Stress Test?
If you haven’t already, ensure your capacity and licensing are at the levels needed for sustained telework.
Ideas
Brag and Name Drop: How to Project Credibility as Workplace Meetings Move Online
What you say carries more weight than ever.
Ideas
Lost Your Job Due to Coronavirus? Artificial Intelligence Could Be Your Best Friend in Finding a New One
Use of these tools is growing, especially among young people.
Cybersecurity
Pentagon Wants Contractor Feedback on Rule Change that Bans Certain Chinese Firms
A provision of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act banning agencies from contracting with companies doing business with Chinese firms like Huawei and ZTE now takes effect.
Modernization
FPDS Reports Will Officially Move to beta.SAM by Mid-October
Users will no longer be able to run contract award reports through FPDS.gov, though that site will retain other capabilities.
Emerging Tech
New Coalition Wants to Help in Fight Against Election Misinformation
The Election Integrity Partnership consists of university researchers and others. Local election officials are among those the partnership is hoping to assist in the weeks ahead.
Emerging Tech
NIH Sets Sights on Enterprisewide Tool to Track Its Millions of Twitter Engagements
The institutes also want to be able to pinpoint influencers and medical misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence
What the Rest of Government Should Watch When the Defense Authorization Bill Goes to Conference
Overhauling FedRAMP is just one of a list of ways the NDAA could affect civilian government tech.
Ideas
The U.S. Election System Is Not Ready for Blockchain Technology … Yet
Blockchain does not exist in a vacuum. It requires extensive support from human personnel and other technology.
Emerging Tech
Open-Source Project Aims to Broaden Access to Early Alerts for Earthquakes
Using internet of things devices and open-source standards, developers and citizen scientists can help monitor earthquake activity, deliver alerts in moments of risk—and more.
Digital Government
Education Department Testing Tool to Make Data Collection Requests Easier
The pilot tool will undergo testing using real information requests at the Education Department and other statistical agencies but will later be available to other agencies.
Ideas
What It’s Like to Be a Remote Intern at a Federal Agency
Two students dish about their COVID summer experiences.
Emerging Tech
Universal Service Fund Wants to Automate Verification of High-Cost Telecom, Broadband Areas
The Universal Service Administrative Company is looking at robotic process automation to streamline checks and balances before it subsidizes telephone and internet access in high-cost areas.
Emerging Tech