Modernization
VA Prepping for Go-Live of Health Records System in March
Veterans Affairs Department officials testified they’re continuing with plans to roll out their new electronic health record system in early 2020.
Artificial Intelligence
Army Hires AI Firm to Predict When Aircraft, Vehicles & Weapons Will Break
Following the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, the service hopes a small company can organize the data from decades-old maintenance logs.
Modernization
Officials: Working Capital Funds Take Time But Have ‘Real Staying Power’
Agencies are still figuring out the best way to establish and govern IT working capital funds two years after passage of the MGT Act.
Modernization
GSA Built a Bot Factory and Thinks Your Agency Can Too
The federal RPA Community of Practice is getting ready to release its first playbook before the end of the year.
Modernization
A State Agency Scraps Its Paper-Based Licensing System
In adopting a digital licensing system, officials at the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission say they moved away not just from stacks and stacks of paper, but also an old mindset.
Modernization
Key EIS transition deadline looms
Agencies are entering a critical time for telecom transitions as March deadline to limit activity on an expiring contract vehicle approaches.
Policy
Congress Reaches Deal to Fight Robocalls
“It’s time to put Americans back in charge of their phones,” lawmakers said.
Modernization
FBI Unites Traditional Techniques with Tech-Driven Applications to Solve Today’s Crimes
A top official recently reflected on how insiders are transforming old-school approaches to tackle advanced cyber crimes.
Cybersecurity
DHS Silicon Valley Program Makes Two Awards for Digital Credentials Management
The department is working to digitize the process for issuing, verifying and managing credentials like travel documents and employment authorizations.
Modernization
Understanding the obstacles to automation
As RPA moves from buzzword to practical applications, agency leaders say it’s forcing broader discussions about business operations
Ideas
Democratic Candidates Need to Learn to Play the Long Game on Broadband
Putting monopoly-style regulations from the 1930s on the competitive broadband sector won't work.
Modernization
Doctors Give Electronic Health Records an 'F'
Clunky systems may contribute to medical professionals' burnout.
Digital Government
Hunt Begins for New 18F Director
The current executive director will be leaving by February.
Modernization
Amazon Cites ‘Political Influence’ in Coming JEDI Protest
Amazon will fight over the $10 billion cloud contract that the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft in October.
Modernization
Officials: Shared Services Implementation Begins But Journey Will Be Long
Three of the four initial focus areas are ready to move beyond the standards-setting phase to implementation, with GSA’s payroll program leading the way.
Modernization
Amazon to protest JEDI loss
Citing "unmistakable bias," the cloud giant plans to sue the Department of Defense in the Court of Federal Claims to seek reconsideration of the award to Microsoft in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract.
Ideas
Why Visibility is the Driving Force Behind Hybrid Cloud
Agencies need quality operational data.
Cybersecurity